AI and Art

Does the future of visual art lie in artificial intelligence?

There are a number of unanswered questions about dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) and the assessment of what AI has in store for artists. BBK Hannover and Kestner Gesellschaft invite you to a discourse with two artists artists working with AI, Boris Eldagsen and Mario Klingemann and a representative of the collecting society Bild-Kunst, legal counsel Dr. Anke Schierholz.

The number of internationally renowned artists who create their works using with the help of AI is steadily increasing. This raises the question question of how the tense relationship between computer creativity and the artist as the author in the future. What will become of the concept of the original? Does AI create art or does it merely reproduce what already exists? Does it open up new perspectives for art or will art be devalued by the general availability of AI? What effects does AI-generated art have on the perception of art? What about what about copyrights to AI-generated art and its identification as such?

Mario Klingemann, born 1970 in Laatzen, lives in Munich. Klingemann is an artist who uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to create and research systems. create and research systems. He is particularly interested in the human perception of art and creativity. He researches methods with which machines complement or imitate these processes and is considered a pioneer in the field of AI art, neural networks and machine learning. His installation Memories of Passersby I made history in March 2019 as the first autonomous first autonomous AI machine to be successfully auctioned at Sotheby's.

Boris Eldagsen, born 1970 in Pirmasens, lives in Berlin. Studied philosophy and German language and literature from 1991, then studied fine arts and philosophy to become a teacher. From 2000, after his second state examination, he worked as a freelancer for digital marketing and as a lecturer. Since 2004, he has been teaching creativity, theory of ideas and photographic art at international universities and art academies. In April 2023, he turned down the Sony World Photography Awards and admitted that he had entered an AI-generated image to spark a debate about the relationship between AI-generated images and photography. His stunt went viral and his image THE ELECTRICIAN became one of the most famous of the year.

Dr. Anke Schierholz, Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst. After studying law in Munich, Anke Schierholz first worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich, where she completed her doctorate on a copyright topic. She then worked for four years as a lawyer in a law firm specializing in copyright and intellectual property law in Potsdam and Berlin before taking over as head of the legal department of VG Bild-Kunst in 1999.