From image to prompt, and viceversa: AI applied to the History of Art and Architecture

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2024.13253

Keywords:

artificial intelligence (AI), prompt, counterfeiting, imaginary museum, ICT tools

Abstract

The Research Seminar in Art and Architecture History on Artificial Intelligence (SIHA-IA) aims to break down the barrier between analog and digital, fostering the development of critical skills and knowledge in university students. By working on the concepts of prompt, reference image, negative prompt and visual clipping in relation to the infrastructure of AI itself, it is possible to understand the close relationship between word-image in the historical trajectory. Through a methodology of four practical exercises —simulacrum, falsification, restitution and exquisite corpse— we delve into the presence of this concordance in three disciplines studied in the course: painting, sculpture and architecture. As a result of the reflections by professors and students derived from the activity, an “imaginary museum” of this incipient rapprochement between AI and art and architecture is built.

Author Biographies

Ana Patricia Minguito, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Ana Patricia Minguito (Madrid, 1995) is an architect graduated from the UPM since 2018, receiving the UPM-Fundación Caja de Ingenieros award, the Second PFC COAM 2019 Award, and a nomination to the Mies Van der Rohe YTAA Awards 2020. MArch in Architecture and Urbanism, and in Advanced Architectural Projects, she has published in specialized journals such as REIA, JIDA or INCUNA since 2017, and organized activities like the Research Seminar on Environmental Architectural History “SIHMA-1” in 2023. Assistant-mentor professor in “Architectural Projects” in the Degree and MArch between 2019-2022, from 2022 she is an assistant-research professor at the ETSAM in “History of Architecture and Urbanism”, “History of Art and Architecture”, and “Landscape and Garden”. In 2023 she is invited as Research-Teaching Fellow in Architecture-Design Studio by the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans. She is a member of the Research Group “HUM-813: Architecture and Contemporary Culture” at the University of Granada.

Eduardo Prieto , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Eduardo Prieto is an International Doctor of Architecture and has received an Extraordinary
Doctorate Award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is also a Graduate in Philosophy
and DEA in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts, and in Moral and Political Philosophy. He is
appointed at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he teaches History
of Architecture; he is the director of the international course ‘Architecture and Environment', and
he has been a visiting scholar at GSD-Harvard University. He is the author of more than seventy
articles and chapters of indexed books, and several reference books, including Historia
medioambiental de la arquitectura (Environmental History of Architecture) (2019, 2022, 2023).
He currently works as an architecture critic for Arquitectura Viva, El Mundo, and Revista de
Libros, among other publications. As a practicing architect, he has been awarded, among
others, the ICCL European Award for Sustainable Architecture, the COAM Distinction and the
Madrid City Council Architecture and Urbanism Award.

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Published

2024-11-08

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JIDA'24

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