Fragile images. Photographic emotions in CGI and AI imaging

How can AI reflect vulnerability or fragility ? In the context of the research project Soft Photography, which explores emotional responses to synthetic images, photographer Charlie Engman and curator Marco De Mutiis discuss the human component of generative technologies, their technical shortcomings and innate inability to understand emotions.

Marco de Muutis – Charlie Engman

About the speakers

Charlie Engman is an American artist and photographer working across photography and generative AI. His work explores the body, representation, and the visual and social conventions through which we understand ourselves and others.

Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, where he leads research on algorithmic and networked forms of image-making. He recently co-curated The Lure of the Image and How to Win at Photography – Image-making as Play. He is co-author of The Photographer’s Guide to Los Santos and co-editor of Screen Images – In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast.

Charlie Engman, Chair, 2024 – Courtesy of the artist