Professor Graham Bader’s article “Saving Face: Portraiture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” is featured in the September 2022 issue of Artforum, one of a suite of articles marking the leading contemporary art journal’s 60th anniversary.
Looking at photographic portraits from both Weimar-era Germany and by such contemporary artists as Catherine Opie and Steve McQueen, Professor Bader considers the shifting significance of the human countenance in relation to developing AI technologies. Like much of the department’s scholarship and teaching, Professor Bader’s essay examines art history through the lens of current-day aesthetic and political concerns—and attempts to generate new understandings of each through this conversation.
Prof. Bader’s article “Saving Face: Portraiture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” can be viewed online here.
Dr. Graham Bader is professor and chair of the Department of Art History at Rice. His research and teaching focuses on postwar European and American art and the avant-gardes of early twentieth-century Europe, particularly Germany. His book Poisoned Abstraction: Kurt Schwitters between Revolution and Exile, was published last fall.