Jasmin Höning // Human portraits in AI art
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Doctoral project
Human portraits in AI art
Subject area: Art History
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schankweiler
Abstract
Based on art historical research perspectives and methods, the doctoral project aims to investigate human portraits in AI art. The research work thus contributes to the analysis and categorization of artworks that use AI technologies to generate synthetic human portraits and thereby reflect on these technologies in the work itself. The selection of case studies focuses on the artistic examination of (re)presentations and phantasms of identity and reality.
The representation of people in art has always been practiced in a wide variety of techniques for the benefit of the most diverse visual statements and can be read as a mirror of our society. With the advent of AI-generated art in recent years, existing research debates have been changed and intensified. Images become (training) data, which in turn generate new images. The resulting new aesthetics, multifaceted pictorial statements and socio-political issues will be explored by combining interdisciplinary research perspectives.
When looking at human portraits in AI art, discrimination phenomena in training data sets and technical processes of facial recognition play a role, as does the entanglement of the artistic self with AI technology. Furthermore, the use of canonically established human portraits in training corpora raises the question of the extent to which the art-historical canon can be paraphrased and thus confirmed or opened up in favor of a more inclusive representation. The dissertation thus provides suggestions for the categorization of human portraits in AI art, which enables a fruitful comparison of individual examples and thus embeds questions about the possibilities and risks of AI-generated human portraits in an overall social context.
Curriculum Vitae
| Since April 2024 |
Doctoral student in the field of art history with Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schankweiler, TUD as part of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden |
| 2021 - 2023 |
Research trainee Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen |
| until 2021 |
Study of European Art History (major subject) as well as English Studies and Classical Archaeology (minor subjects) University of Heidelberg, Università degli Studi di Siena |
| 2018 - 2019 |
Research Assistant Heidelberg University Museum |
publications
Exhibition catalogs
Patrizia Kränzlein. Linie – Fläche – Raum, hrsg. v. Kultur- und Sportamt Bietigheim-Bissingen und Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, 2023.
Die Suche nach „dem Absoluten, dem Klaren“. Wobbe Alkema, in: Avantgarde in den Niederlanden, hrsg. v. Kultur- und Sportamt Bietigheim-Bissingen und Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen 2022.
„Vom Wind gezeichnet, vom Licht gefärbt“. Job Hansen, in: Avantgarde in den Niederlanden, hrsg. v. Kultur- und Sportamt Bietigheim-Bissingen und Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen 2022.
Stille Muster in Bewegung. Zu Alum Lees Linolschnittserie Karomuster No.1 – No.100, in: Linolschnitt heute XII., hrsg. v. Kultur- und Sportamt Bietigheim-Bissingen und Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen 2022.
Abstrakte Kunst nach 1945 in Italien und Deutschland, in: Show & Tell. Studierende bieten Einblick in die Privatsammlung Erik Jayme, Ausst.-Kat., hrsg. v. M. Effinger und H. Keazor, Heidelberg University Publishing 2019.
Speeches
(2023) 22 Years After – 22 Jahre Danach. Dieter Kränzlein und Frederick D. Bunsen, Ausstellungseröffnungsrede, Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg, 17.09.2023.
(2022) Freier Fall und Ferner Stern. Zum 100. Geburtstag von Fred Stelzig, Ausstellungseröffnungsrede, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, 25.11.2022.