This year, Photobook Week Aarhus will complement their festival program with a special line-up of workshops and talks, in collaboration with The Curator Ship Academy.

The first ones that we can confirm are by the German photographer Boris Eldagsen, who became famous for winning and then rejecting the Sony Award with his AI-created imagery.

ONLINE PRESENTATION + Q&A “Promptography: How AI Is Overtaking Photography”
An online presentation that gives an overview of the innumerable possibilities of AI image generation and its consequences for photography, videography, creative professions and society. LIVE, via zoom and with discussion section. Duration: 2 hours. Date: 22 Oct 2023, 18:30 – 20:30.

INTENSIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP “Image-Based Prompting For Professionals”, Part I
An intensive online workshops by Boris Eldagsen that provide an overview of the current possibilities of AI image generation, a deep understanding of how it works and thus a firm foundation for individual use applications whose results stand out from the average AI image production. They are tailored to the previously identified needs of the participants and take place via Zoom.  

In Promptology I, Boris teaches the foundation for text prompting, and explains how professional prompting builds on it. He explains the elements, basic rules and strategies of text-based prompting, the fine-tuning with parameters and all the tricks of prompt whispering. The knowledge presented will be tested and deepened in practical LIVE exercises (“prompt battles”). For this we use the platforms DALL E2, Midjourney, and Adobe Firefly. Date: 23 Oct 2023, 18:30 – 20:30.

INTENSIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP “Image-Based Prompting For Professionals”, Part II:

In the 3-hour INTENSIVE WORKSHOP | Image-based Prompting for Professionals (Promptology II), Boris explains how to generate images using existing images, or in a combination of text and image prompts. The focus is clearly on midjourney, where we experiment with blend, image prompts and faceswap. We test the possibilities of inpainting and outpainting (aka Generative Fill / Uncrop / Zoom) on Midjourney, Photoshop Beta and Stable Diffusion. In addition, he will show what Stable Diffusion has over Midjourney. Date: 25 Oct 2023, 18:30 – 20:30.

Prices:

Each participant of the PWA open call for artists working with AI pays 30€, which can be used as a discount voucher for the online seminars and workshops on Artificial Intelligence.

The prices for the general public, and the participants are thus as follows:
ONLINE PRESENTATION + Q&A “Promptography: How AI Is Overtaking Photography”: Price for general public: 75€, Price for participants: 65€
INTENSIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP “Image-Based Prompting For Professionals”, Part I: Price for general public: 238€, Price for participants: 215€
INTENSIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP “Image-Based Prompting For Professionals”, Part II: Price for general public: 238€, Price for participants: 215€

Please send an email to PWA.AI.Call@gmail.com to be the first on the list, as these workshops tend to sell out very quickly.