Coffee & Viz: AI Image-Generation and its View of Gender

Friday, September 15, 2023
9:30am to 10:30am

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Art generated by Artificial Intelligence. It shows two transgender women in black and white, but their faces are glitched and disfigured.

When

Friday, September 15, 2023
9:30am to 10:30am

Where

Teaching and Visualization Lab, Hunt Library

About This Event

AI Art continues to generate controversy, from arguments that it steals the work of digital artists, to the inherent coded bias in its data models, that users then reinforce. Given this bias, it could be inferred that AI image generators, such as Dall-E and Midjourney, produce images that enforce the gender binary. However, AI art programs and other forms of mechanic vision, such as image analysis, also have the potential to interrogate how society constructs gender.
 

Join PhD student Travis R. Merchant-Knudsen as they walk through their research project “Machinic Visions of a Glitched Binary: AI Image-Generation and its View of Gender.” By using image generations and image analysis programs, Merchant-Knudsen creates visualizations of transgender and non-binary bodies that deconstruct and “glitch” the gender binary. 

Merchant-Knudsen is currently a Ph.D. student in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) program at North Carolina State University. They are an English, Media Studies, and Communication instructor and former Image Editor for Film International. Their work has been published in Film International; Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies; and Southeast Asian Review of English

Featured Speakers

Contact Information

Aasta Thomas
acthoma5@ncsu.edu

Admission

Free and open to the public.

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