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Trained for prompt fulfilment and the seamless imitation of external reality, image-generating AIs challenge our perception of the real. What means can we find in film and art history when it comes to separating reality from illusion? Do these tools possibly help us to come closer to the idea of a self-critical AI aesthetic? And take into account the effects of the AI industry on society and the environment?

With Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer, Professor of Expanded Cinema, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig; Ariana Dongus, critical media scientist, Berlin; Prof. Dr Jan Distelmeyer, Professor of Media History and Media Theory, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences and Potsdam University; Dr Inke Arns , Director of HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund.