In this new article on the website of University of Zurich, Roger Nickl portraits Prof. Dr. Roland Meyer and the central research questions of the DIZH Bridge Professorship Digital Cultures and Arts.
Excerpt:
From a US president styling himself as a king, church leader or ripped football player in online posts, to a tech billionaire depicting himself as a Roman gladiator in a meme published on social media platform X late last year. The world of digital images sometimes comes out with strange things. This is now possible thanks to AI image generators such as Midjourney and Dall-E. “They’re a bit like wish fulfillment machines,” says Roland Meyer, “you can enter a prompt and it’s immediately turned into an image”.
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