Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography

Elke Reinhuber

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_22

Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography

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Abstract

With the comprehensive application of Artificial Intelligence into the creation and post production of images, it seems questionable if the resulting visualisations can still be considered ‘photographs’ in a classical sense – drawing with light. Automation has been part of the popular strain of photography since its inception, but even the amateurs with only basic knowledge of the craft could understand themselves as author of their images. We state a legitimation crisis for the current usage of the term. This paper is an invitation to consider Synthography as a term for a new genre for image production based on AI, observing the current occurrence and implementation in consumer cameras and post-production.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation
Subtitle of host publication	Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Matthias Wölfel, Johannes Bernhardt, Sonja Thiel
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	321-331
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-95531-1
ISBN (Print)	9783030955304
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_22
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	10th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (EAI ArtsIT 2021) - Online, Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 2 Dec 2021 → 3 Dec 2021 https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2021/

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Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume	422
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)	1867-822X

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Conference	10th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (EAI ArtsIT 2021)
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Karlsruhe
Period	2/12/21 → 3/12/21
Internet address	https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2021/

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Future of creative photography
Synthetic photography

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Reinhuber, E. (2022). Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography. In M. Wölfel, J. Bernhardt, & S. Thiel (Eds.), ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings (pp. 321-331). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 422). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_22

Reinhuber, Elke. / Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography. ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings. editor / Matthias Wölfel ; Johannes Bernhardt ; Sonja Thiel. Cham : Springer , 2022. pp. 321-331 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Reinhuber, E 2022, Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography. in M Wölfel, J Bernhardt & S Thiel (eds), ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 422, Springer , Cham, pp. 321-331, 10th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (EAI ArtsIT 2021), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2/12/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_22

Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography. / Reinhuber, Elke.
ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Matthias Wölfel; Johannes Bernhardt; Sonja Thiel. Cham: Springer , 2022. p. 321-331 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 422).

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Reinhuber E. Synthography – An Invitation to Reconsider the Rapidly Changing Toolkit of Digital Image Creation as a New Genre Beyond Photography. In Wölfel M, Bernhardt J, Thiel S, editors, ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation: Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings. Cham: Springer . 2022. p. 321-331. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). Epub 2022 Feb 10. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_22

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