Fotograf Zone AI FORUM is an innovative international conference focused on connecting AI technology and creativity. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and open discussion on the potential of AI in art, technology, and societal development. The event is part of Prague AI Days.
PROGRAM
14:45 Open door
15:00 Introduction: Markéta Kinterová, Daria Hvížďalová & Kateřina Havrlant
15:15–16:10 Claudia Larcher
Keynote: AI and the Art of Historical Reinterpretation
Claudia Larcher is an Austrian artist, filmmaker and AI researcher. Her award-winning project AI and the Art of Historical Reinterpretation (Ars Electronica Prix 2024) explores how AI-generated images can address gender bias and historical gaps in datasets. By rewriting visual history, the project empowers marginalized groups and critically examines whose stories are preserved, altered, or erased in mainstream narratives.
16:10–17:05 Sasha Stiles
Keynote: Ars Autopoetica. AI and the Art of Poetry Ars
Sasha Stiles is a poet, artist, and AI researcher known for her groundbreaking work blending words and images, text and technology. In this keynote, Stiles shares a deeply personal perspective on the rapidly evolving relationship between humanity and machines. Drawing from her award-winning practice and unique journey at the forefront of generative art, she examines how technology is reshaping creativity as we know it, and reveals how the timeless art of poetry can help us navigate the emotional, ethical, and existential challenges of being human in the age of AI.
17:05–17:20 Break (15 min)
17:20–18:15 Boris Eldagsen
Will it blend? The shift from text prompting to image references
Boris Eldagsen shows the complexity of creative collaboration between humans and AI - and what impact this will have on the role of creatives and their training. How the role of the creative did shift from text prompting to working with images as material and reference. Boris presents theories of creativity that help us to better understand and optimise the collaboration between humans and AI. In addition, he shows how workflows and workspaces are changing - and explains what AI users have in common with bartenders.
18:15–19:00 Panel: all 3 speakers & moderator: Adéla Janíčková
Conversation on How is AI changing the way we perceive language in the context of visual art? The discussion will focus on how different artists use AI to transform language into visual works, and how this process affects our relationship to text and image.
19:00–19:15 Q&A
19: 15–19:45 Winners of the Open Call for Creative AI Projects
Presentation of the winners' projects
20:00 – 22:00 Network & VIP Closing party: No Words Left
Invitation-only program + live coding techniques, DJing with real-time artificial intelligence support.
Venue: Fotograf Zone gallery, Jungmannova 19/7, Prague 1
FOTOGRAF ZONE AI FORUM
Fotograf Zone AI FORUM is an innovative international conference focused on connecting AI technology and creativity. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and open discussion on the potential of AI in art, technology, and societal development. The event is part of Prague AI Days.
The Society of Dangerous Evidence: Dykes on Bikes 2.0
The exhibition at Fotograf Gallery maps the various forms of lesbian and queer experience in relation to space, language, the body and material structures. It arises from the need to articulate this experience not only as an identity category but as a way of being and functioning in a world often defined by heteronormative and patriarchal frameworks. The artists and collectives represented in the exhibition approach themes such as sexuality, language, cuisine, landscape or technology through specific political, corporeal and cultural strategies. This creates a layered and complex portrayal of what queer positionality can mean in contemporary European context.