AI Imaging – Invented Realities
In addition to the large-format Klimsch Praktika repro camera, Josef Dreisörner also uses the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence. For him, AI is not just an image tool, but a creative instrument to be taken seriously – comparable to a paintbrush or camera.
While analog photography is limited to the visible, the real existing, AI opens up access to visual worlds that go beyond the documentary. It generates new visual dimensions from purely virtual information – as an extension of the usual perspective, not as a replacement for it.
The works shown here were created with the help of AI-supported image generators and were then digitally reworked. They are part of an ongoing dialog between classic photographic processes and contemporary image production.
Portrait of a Woman with Flowers
Beauty and transience are often closer together than we would like to admit. But perhaps it is precisely this transience that makes beauty possible in the first place?
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Trash Cans
Consumption is an important driver for the economy. Everyone is talking about sustainability – but not us?
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Innovation
Our future is always a result of what we have done or not done. Many people say that we can solve the emerging problems of the future through innovation. Will this really be the case?
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Money Laundering (from the series “It’s only Money”)
Germany has a strong cash culture, which makes it easier for criminals to smuggle illegal money into the legal economy. For example, large real estate purchases can sometimes be made in cash, which criminals use to launder money. Why are some lobby groups against stricter measures to prevent money laundering?
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Bad Investment (from the series “It’s only Money”)
In the case of failures and wrong decisions, you have “hit the wall”, which needs no further explanation. You feel angry and regretful. But what happens when entire livelihoods are threatened by financial failures?
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Eating Money (from the series “It’s only Money”)
“Only when the last tree is cut down, the last river poisoned, the last fish caught, will you realize that you can’t eat money.” Can we agree with this slogan of the environmental movement?
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Burning Money (from the series “It’s only Money”)
In order to achieve high returns, banks also offer risky and highly volatile investments, among other things. Such investments are associated with risks and the possible loss of the capital invested. If such an investment then generates a loss, this is not a good reputation, but don’t the banks ultimately care? After all, it was not your own money, but the capital of the customer, who was duly informed of a possible loss in advance.
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Coral fairy
The oceans are warming, the corals are bleaching. How long will the beauty of the underwater world be preserved? Can a fairy godmother help?
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The Comedian
A life as a comedian, actor and director. Then you decide to serve your country as president and a short time later, you have to decide on life and death. What does a former comedian think, what does he feel?
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Leaving the ring (Going Home)
Animal rights activists are calling for exotic animals such as elephants and lions to be banned from the circus ring. Circus enthusiasts, on the other hand, argue that animal welfare is also possible in circuses. Should wild animals be banned from circuses?
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Aladdin and the magic lamp
Are old fairy tales still relevant today or do they contradict the principles of modern pedagogy? Does “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp” contain elements that could be considered problematic in modern pedagogy, such as traditional gender roles, power through external aids or cultural stereotypes? What would the illustration of this fairy tale look like today?
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The Frog King
Are old fairy tales still up to date today or do they contradict the principles of modern pedagogy? In the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, the frog is transformed into a prince by being thrown against the wall and not, as many believe, by a kiss. What would the illustration of this fairy tale look like today?
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Little Red Riding Hood
Are old fairy tales still up to date today or do they contradict the principles of modern pedagogy? Does the wolf symbolize charming, calm, polite, modest and pleasing men with whom well-bred young ladies could very well have a “meal”? As described by Charles Perrault, one of the first written authors of “Le petit chaperon rouge”? What would the illustration of this fairy tale look like today?
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Hansel and Gretel
Are old fairy tales still up to date today or do they contradict the principles of modern pedagogy? The sometimes cruel stories are full of symbolism and also point to historical grievances. Is “Hansel and Gretel” about the evil witch being punished and thus good always triumphing over evil, or about attempted infanticide, cannibalism and evil stepmothers? What would the illustration of this fairy tale look like today?
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Dementia woman – When a person slowly disappears
A feeling of loneliness pervades me, as if I have become a stranger in my own life. The sadness of no longer being able to hold on to the familiar details of my loved ones and my own history hurts deeply. I hope that my family and friends will keep the love and happy moments in our lives in their memories, even if I can no longer remember them myself.
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Dementia Man – When a person slowly disappears
Inside me, I feel a deep confusion and an agonizing sense of loss, as if the essence of my life is slowly fading away. I feel the painful loneliness and isolation as the connections to my past, my loved ones and myself disappear more and more. A tinge of nostalgia and longing pervades my thoughts as I try to grasp the fading fragments of my identity. I desperately search for moments of inner peace and clarity amidst the dense fog that surrounds my thoughts.
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AI-Robot – Humanoid Robot
In the future, robots will help with care or loneliness, for example, and will be used as service staff in restaurants. When these robots have a humanoid appearance, people even develop a certain empathy for the machines. However, this feeling quickly changes if the machines look too human. This phenomenon, known as the “Uncanny Valley”, means that the more human-like the robots are, the more sympathetic they seem – but only up to a certain point. Many people find any resemblance beyond this point creepy or scary. This only changes again when a robot can no longer be distinguished from a human.
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AI-Robot – Self-Portrait
Once it has learned the painting styles of the “great masters”, an AI-based computer system can reproduce any image given to it in the painting style of a particular artist. You can also tell the system what you want to see in a picture and then have it reproduce it in the painting style of a particular artist. The AI system is also able to develop a new style by mixing different learned painting styles, but this is always based on the learned painting styles. However, the AI system itself cannot develop its “own signature”, a new style that has never been seen before or a new picture idea (as of 2023).
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AI-Robot – Love
Emotions such as fear, joy, sadness or being in love, which are associated with certain facial expressions or physical reactions, can be learned by AI systems through pattern recognition. AI systems have no feelings of their own, but can show the feelings they have learned. However, as things stand today, they lack the biochemical and hormonal processes that take place in a human body during an emotion. It is well known that humans can develop strong emotional bonds with robots or machines of all kinds. The ongoing development of sex robots is the subject of controversial debate among experts and ethicists.
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AI-Robot – Drugs
Humans consume drugs to relax, expand their consciousness or increase their performance. AI systems cannot experience the effects of drugs themselves because they do not have a biochemical central nervous system that is affected when drugs are consumed. For example, if a robot were designed to consume drugs, it would still be a purely mechanical action without the consciousness or experience that humans associate with the consumption of drugs. It would merely be a simulation and not an authentic experience as the “brain” of the AI is based solely on data and algorithms.
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AI-Robot – Religion
In 2015, robotics expert and former head of Google subsidiary Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, founded the religious community “Way of the Future”, which worships artificial intelligence as a deity. The approach is that in the not-so-distant future, the computing power of computers, and therefore artificial intelligence, will increase so exponentially that it will be god-like. An artificial intelligence that solves all our problems and worries for us and ultimately creates a paradisiacal state. In 2020, Levandowski dissolved the religious community he had founded.
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AI-Robot – Grace
An “image of grace” is a representation of a saint from whom the faithful ask for God’s mercy. These are mainly depictions of Mary with the infant Jesus. An AI has no consciousness of its own and shows no understanding. Artificial intelligence has no mind. Values such as tolerance, honesty, justice or mercy are alien to an AI. Will an artificial hyperintelligence come to the conclusion to destroy humanity and does it then make sense to ask for mercy from this hyperintelligence?
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You can find more AI-generated or digitally photographed images in the store.