Charlie Engman: A journey to the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence [Lecture]

To mark the launch of his new book Cursed artist, photographer, and art director Charlie Engman will give a lecture that explores the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and creativity. Drawing upon his own visionary role in a rapidly evolving and highly contentious field, Engman will explore the value of these uncharted artistic territories, proposing a new paradigm for the future and possibilities of photography. Can AI’s detachment from reality illuminate the blessing and the curse of “real life”? Hosted in collaboration with the RCA Photography programme.

Tuesday 12 November
17:00 – 19:00

RCA Battersea
Gorvy Lecture Theatre

1 Hester Road

London SW11 4AN 

Free to attend. RSVP here

About Cursed

In Cursed, Charlie Engman harnesses generative AI’s uncanny distortions of the physical world to explore the pleasure, humour, and horror of the body. This captivating portfolio of images unpicks AI’s characteristic gap between expectation and outcome, challenging our preconceptions of how the world should be and appear. Can simulation and collective knowledge drive innovation and individuation, or does the recycling of images and ideas doom us to repeat our failures? Can AI’s detachment from reality illuminate the blessing and the curse of “real life”?

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