Image and Object Symposium 2026: AI

Convened by Charlene Villaseñor Black

This year’s Image and Object Symposium brings together artists and thinkers from a range of disciplines to think about Art and AI. How does AI change our understanding of originality, creativity, and the role of the artist? How is AI impacting current contemporary artistic practice today? Can AI create art?

Speakers include the co-creator of the artist robot Ai-Da; an artist whose work engages AI and social justice; and scholars who think about the ethics of AI-generated images; the limits of AI and its current ability to solve visual problems; surveillance, faciality and AI; as well as AI in contemporary artistic practice. The symposium will include short presentations, audience Q&A, and two short videos, featuring AI-Da and artist Christie Neptune’s Light Years Apart (2021-2025), an interactive mediated performance.

This event is free and open to the public (seat availability is on a first come, first served basis).