Photography in the age of AI
The new issue of Foam is themed ‘Missing Mirror’, and it’s dedicated to examining the role of AI in photography and image-making today. As well as the print magazine it’s also an exhibition at the Foam Gallery in Amsterdam, and a digital platform, and it offers a totally fascinating vision of how we understand the world today.
We might be at peak AI at the moment, with algorithms apparently poised to change everything from the way we treat cancer to the way we make art, but Foam looks past the hype to focus instead on ways that photographers and image-makers are using various technologies to comment on our perception of reality. As the editors say in their introduction, “If AI is holding up a mirror against us, what do we learn about ourselves? About our structural biases? And about what we think makes us human – the ability to think, construct, and interpret.”
As you’ll see from the video above, the issue is packed with interesting examples. I only had time to pick out a couple of them, but there’s loads more to enjoy here in Foam’s incredibly rich pages, so it’s definitely worth picking up a copy to see it for yourself.
