mAI type

The exhibition presents the output of a pedagogical project that focused on the process and tools in the typography course where students design in the face of rapidly evolving tools using powerful, generative AI. The aim was not so much to confront the abilities of the human hand and imagination with the current possibilities of artificial intelligence as a contest in search of a winning author, but to present the width of the spectrum with which the contemporary graphic designer can work, ranging from the minimum assistance of digital tools to the maximum, which is currently the so-called strong artificial intelligence. At every point in this process of “mechanisation”, however, there is always a need for human, creative intervention. This exhibition attempts to present these moments with examples of assignments typical of the field of typography. We have deliberately chosen the assignments to include the levels considered to be symptoms of human creative behaviour: visual puns, metaphors, the use of optical illusion, the pursuit of self-expression. 

The emphasis on the procedural level of the discussion of the graphic designer’s work and so-called AI is underlined by both the interactive elements of the exhibition and the planned workshops on calligraphy and AI tools in the accompanying programme.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday 11 December 2024 at 6pm at the G18 Gallery, Štefánikova 5670.