“How can photography play a constructive role in encouraging ‘Trusting Voices’ in an Age of A.I.?”
- How is the position of a photographer as a prompter authentic?
- Is ‘prompting’ then a photographic act or a dematerialised ‘gesture’, which could be substituted for other apparitions of aesthetic or creative endeavour whether a photograph, poem, musical composition all rendered synonymous as prescribed outcomes?
- Does AI generate ideas or instead aggregate existing data, which is not recognised and seen but dependent on other forms of description, inscription, cataloguing, keywording or metadata?
- Does AI herald an epistemological and ontological shift in creativity or is it solely a mute replication and simulation of data scraped to present the (dis)illusion of a material experience?
- Where does authorship, agency and trust reside within the intellectual and ethical mire which AI has unleashed in the separation of artefact and intelligence?
- Is authenticity an ontological guarantee or instead a relational and ethical transaction which scaffolds trust, truth and belief systems in what is seen, sensed and experienced?
These are some of the questions that the symposium hopes to explore and this call for papers invites responses to the above thoughts and propositions related to artificial intelligence, apparatus, technology, and materiality. The symposium will take place at University of Chester from 17-18 April 2026.
To find out more and submit please go to the direct link.
