The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival that focuses on the common ground between ethics and aesthetics, returns for its eighth edition. From November 16 to 19, 2023, BASE Milano will host a series of exhibitions and a three-day symposium examining the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on human existence and the creation of images, complemented by satellite events at the city’s finest galleries.
The exhibitions at the PhotoVogue Festival include: “What is Beauty?”, “What is Beauty? (A.I.)", “Uncanny Atlas: Image in the age of A.I.”, “Eternal Loops", “Spanish Woman: A Contemporary Portrait of Strength and Beauty”, “Eye Mama” and “Condé Future”.
Check 2023 and past exhibitions here.
“Uncanny Atlas: Image in the Age of A.I.”
"Photography has long been the lingua franca of our transitional epoch: an era where daily life is exponentially shifting into a virtual dimension, where relationships are consumed online, being beautiful means being photogenic, the proliferation of fake news render any collective discourse precarious and what we once called nature is reduced, at best, to content. The radical ambiguity of the photographic medium, which on the one hand promises adherence to the subject and on the other allows artifice and manipulation, seemed the perfect language to narrate a fluid world in which we moved like tightrope walkers, balancing between the digital and the real.
This exhibition aims to be a principle of cartography of this new world. And it does so through an investigation of how AI is changing, along with image production, our idea of photography, and inevitably also that of reality. Above all, the exhibition is an invitation to confrontation, at the intersection of many possible readings of a still largely empty map, where around the small known world there are still large, obscure areas, yet to be explored."
The artists: Alex Huanfa Cheng | Alexey Chernikov | Ali Cha aban | Alkan Avcıoğlu | Carlijn Jacobs | Charlie Engman | Exhibit AI | Filippo Venturi | Jonas Bendiksen | Laurie Simmons | Maria Mavropoulou | Michael Christopher Brown | Minne Atairu | Philipp Klak | Prateek Arora | Roope Rainisto | Synchrodogs | Chanhee Hong
The exhibition will also include a selection of Vogue Covers created with AI.
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Francesca Marani (Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia), Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Editor, Writer and Curator), Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Content Operations Strategy Manager, Condé Nast) and Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue)
