Session 2 · AI Art Crafting · Lesson 01
From Image to System
A photograph is static. A system is temporal. Meaning emerges through repetition and variation, and authorship shifts from control to orchestration.
Concept
- Session 1's premises carry forward: images as inputs, rule-sets as artistic decisions.
- The move from one-off outputs to ongoing behaviors.
- Orchestration replaces control as the author's role.
If a photograph is static and a system is temporal, where does the work now live?
Slides
- 01
AI + Liminal Systems
- Photography Between Human and Machine Perception
- Session 2 — From Interpretive Experiments to Systems
- 02
Session Objectives
- Move from one-off outputs to systems
- Introduce feedback, iteration, and temporal behavior
- Treat AI as a collaborator within rule-based structures
- Produce a defensible process study for critique
- Connect systems thinking directly to photographic practice
- 03
Key Ideas from Session 1
- AI as translation layer
- Misreading as artistic material
- Photography beyond index and capture
- Images as inputs rather than endpoints
- Rule-sets as artistic decisions
- 04
The Shift: Image → System
- A photograph is static
- A system is temporal
- Meaning emerges through repetition and variation
- Authorship shifts from control to orchestration
Student activity
10:00
- 01Revisit your strongest Session 1 experiment and note what would change if it repeated.