Synthetische Erinnerung

In the organizer's words:

Memory is the reliving of experiences from the past. They can be individual, collective and historical, but they can also be incomplete, distorted and influenced. We record our personal memories in diaries, snapshots, video clips, voice recordings or drawings - to preserve important moments and feelings.
Thanks to generative artificial intelligence, we can now create or manipulate such media deceptively realistically and synthetically in a matter of seconds.

This fundamentally calls into question our trust in these memory aids. The boundaries between fact and fiction are becoming blurred, and the relevance of attentive and responsible reception is increasing enormously.

The exhibition "Synthetic Memory" presents creative-artistic positions of students from the Master's degree program "Design is all you need - Design theory and AI", who critically examine the production of synthetic media - both its potential and its risks.

Not only will the technology be examined, but our understanding of personal and collective memory itself will also be questioned. How malleable are memories? What does this mean for our perception of reality? And how will we deal with the new possibilities of AI in the future? What role does authenticity still play?

The works on display were created as part of the seminar "Our favorite false memories" by Prof. Tristan Schulze. The Master's program is closely linked to the KITeGG research project, which investigates and further develops the role of AI in design theory.

We cordially invite everyone to the vernissage on Wednesday, April 30 at 7 pm at LUX and look forward to the exchange - the doors are open from 6 pm.