In the last years AI has become easily accessible for the general public, and a large variety of free apps has made it possible for everyone to experiment with both text and images produced by these new AI-apps. After doing a series of first-time-attempt-images using the image generator Dall-e, Frans Jacobi will present this work and reflect upon the special features of this new feature of contemporary image production.

With a reference to the term Common Intellect, used by the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno and Antonio Negri back in the 1970s, Jacobi will present some reflections on his own and other artists' use of AI or Artificial Intelligence. Artist examples include Almagul Menlibayeva with the series AI Realism. Quantar 2022 (2022) and Political Shamasism (2022) which makes use of AI and neurolinguistics research; Kristoffer Ørum with #frihedlighedoghiphop; and Frans Jacobi's work The Current Situation

Frans Jacobi is a visual artist working with performance, film and a variety of other media. Jacobi is professor in time-based media / performance at Faculty of Art, Music & Design at University of Bergen since 2012. He completed his PhD ‘Aesthetics of Resistance’ at Malmö Art Academy/Lunds University in 2012. Since 1982 Jacobi has exhibited and performed at a variety of international art institutions; i.e. Volksbühne/Grüne Salon, Berlin Germany; The Performance Project, New York USA; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Norway; Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar Senegal; Anthology Film Archives, New York USA; Open Performance Festival, Beijing China; Kunsthallen Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen Denmark; Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Germany; Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus Denmark; de Appel, Amsterdam; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Germany; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel Germany; Louisiana, Humlebæk Denmark.

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Image: Almagul Menlibayeva, from the series AI Realism.