Venue: LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation

Time: 7.00 pm | Free entry

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has established itself as a disruptive tool for digital creation, thanks to software such as ChatGPT, Midjourney and Dall-e.

This event forms part of the ‘Future Technology 2026’ conference series organised by the Municipal Foundation for Culture, Education and Adult Education – Gijón/Xixón City Council, and through practical case studies, we will explore how AI is transforming the artistic landscape, opening up new possibilities for creation and pushing the boundaries of the imagination.

Programme:

1. The Forms of the Algorithm. Art, artificial intelligence and new forms of creation, by Juan Falcón.

What happens to creation when imagining and calculating cease to be exclusively human operations? Artificial intelligence is transforming our relationship with images and with creative processes. From an artistic perspective, this lecture explores the new forms emerging at the intersection of algorithms, imagination, matter and the artwork.

Juan Falcón began his artistic training at the Oviedo School of Art, where he qualified as a Senior Technician in Printmaking and Printing Techniques (2008). His practice encompasses a range of media — painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, digital modelling and new printing technologies — exploring the relationships between the digital and the physical nature of matter. His work also addresses the memory of objects and the relationships between the human, the technological and the natural.

2. The place the algorithm imagines. Body, territory and future habitability, by Diego Díaz.

Can artificial intelligence anticipate where we will find refuge from the climate to come? In this lecture, we will analyse the uncertain space where data, the body and territory become prediction. Where the algorithm imagines habitable futures, art transforms those forecasts into questions about refuge, survival and the future.

Diego Díaz is an artist, researcher and lecturer at the Universitat Jaume I. Since 2000, he has been working alongside Clara Boj on projects that critically explore the relationships between art, technology and public space. His recent practice investigates personal data, artificial intelligence, predictive identity and speculative futures, whilst also addressing the transformations of territory and habitability in the context of climate change. www.lalalab.org