Visual Practices in China as precursors to AI
Connolly, Stephen (2025) Visual Practices in China as precursors to AI. In: International conference on platform and Al society in Asia, 24-25 November 2025, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)
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This talk is an exploration of the environment of reception of photo-realistic images in modern China. It is a brief impressionistic survey of selected practices of vernacular and media photography with the aim of contesting framings of AI visuality as always ‘fake’ or ‘inauthentic’ as evident in the West. A distinction between the ‘authentic’ and the ‘inauthentic,’ as embedded in practices of photography, is thus provincial, rather than shared globally. To ground the discussion in practice, I will start with a project underway as a Digital Media academic at a partnership institution within XMU, Xiamen University, Fujian, that initiated this enquiry. My concluding remarks are tentative and open.
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