Photographic Cultures and Visual Research Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE013 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC57 Visual Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

This session invites papers that interrogate the impact of artificial intelligence on the way we create, represent, interpret, and value visual aspects of culture. How does AI affect the way people look at images today? What are the ethical, moral, and legal issues involved? What are the research possibilities of AI for the visual social sciences? How do certain sectors and genres of image-making try to keep AI at bay?

Since AI should ideally support, not replace, human creativity and agency, this session seeks to stimulate meta-discussions and meta-research on the role of AI in visual practices across social sectors and scientific disciplines.

Session Organizer:
Luc PAUWELS, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Oral Presentations
Generating AI Images: Prompting and Human- Machine Imagination
Dennis ZUEV, ISCTE, Russian Federation; Gary BRATCHFORD, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
AI-Replicas As Ethical Practice: Introducing an Alternative to Traditional Anonymization Techniques in Image-Based Research
Tobias KAMELSKI, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Memes and AI in Political Radicalisation in Latin America
Gabriel BAYARRI TOSCANO, Spain
I-Figure in a Concrete Scene: A Pattern of Addressing an Audience and Its Realisation in the Visual Arts
Anna SCHOBER, Klagenfurt, Austria
Stereo Photography and the Stereotyped City
Marc BEKAERT, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Autorrepresentación y Colaboración Creativa: Explorando La Creación Artística Con IA Para Superar La Injusticia Epistémica En Personas Psiquiatrizadas
Fadia Paola RODAS ZIADÉ, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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