The Artist is Human: A. I. Won’t Break My Soul, Artist Lecture by Michael Menchaca

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Wednesday, Mar 15, 2023
6 p.m.

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Free with general admission

*General museum admission is FREE for residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties.

Location:

Detroit Film Theatre

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

Michael Menchaca (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Xicanx artist using print and new media to generate anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist visions of the world. In the talk, “The Artist is Human: A.I. Won’t Break My Soul,” Menchaca will discuss the A.I. industry, text-to-image generators like Image GPT and large language models like ChatGPT and the cultural implications. 

This talk is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century. Support for the talk comes from the DIA’s Friends of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. 

The talk is free and open to the public. 

 

Image: Michael Menchaca, Castizo no. 2, 2019, from the suite, La Raza Cósmica 20XX, 2019, screen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Friends of PDP Photographic Fund in honor of Lindsey Buhl, 2021.249.2. 

Image: Michael Menchaca, Castizo no. 2, 2019, from the suite, La Raza Cósmica 20XX, 2019, screen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Friends of PDP Photographic Fund in honor of Lindsey Buhl, 2021.249.2.

Michael Menchaca (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Xicanx artist using print and new media to generate anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist visions of the world. In the talk, “The Artist is Human: A.I. Won’t Break My Soul,” Menchaca will discuss the A.I. industry, text-to-image generators like Image GPT and large language models like ChatGPT and the cultural implications. 

This talk is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century. Support for the talk comes from the DIA’s Friends of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. 

The talk is free and open to the public. 

 

Image: Michael Menchaca, Castizo no. 2, 2019, from the suite, La Raza Cósmica 20XX, 2019, screen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Friends of PDP Photographic Fund in honor of Lindsey Buhl, 2021.249.2.