Presentation
SIGGRAPH 2025 Opening Session & SIGGRAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Aaron Hertzmann, Can Computers Create Art?
DescriptionSIGGRAPH 2025 Opening Session
The SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference and ACM SIGGRAPH leadership warmly welcome all attendees and will share valuable insights into the future direction of our industry, setting the stage for an engaging and informative event.
SIGGRAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker
Can AI algorithms make art and be considered artists? Within the past decade, the growth of new neural network algorithms has enabled exciting new art forms with considerable public interest. These tools raise recurring questions about their status as creators and their effect on the arts. In this talk, Dr. Aaron Hertzmann will discuss how these developments parallel the development of previous artistic technologies, like oil paint, photography, and traditional computer graphics, with many useful analogies between past and current developments. Dr. Hertzmann argues that art is a social phenomenon — that “AI” algorithms will not have human-level intelligence in the foreseeable future — and so it is extremely unlikely that we will consider algorithms to be artists either. However, they, like past art technologies, will change the way we make and understand art, for better and for worse.
The SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference and ACM SIGGRAPH leadership warmly welcome all attendees and will share valuable insights into the future direction of our industry, setting the stage for an engaging and informative event.
SIGGRAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker
Can AI algorithms make art and be considered artists? Within the past decade, the growth of new neural network algorithms has enabled exciting new art forms with considerable public interest. These tools raise recurring questions about their status as creators and their effect on the arts. In this talk, Dr. Aaron Hertzmann will discuss how these developments parallel the development of previous artistic technologies, like oil paint, photography, and traditional computer graphics, with many useful analogies between past and current developments. Dr. Hertzmann argues that art is a social phenomenon — that “AI” algorithms will not have human-level intelligence in the foreseeable future — and so it is extremely unlikely that we will consider algorithms to be artists either. However, they, like past art technologies, will change the way we make and understand art, for better and for worse.
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Event Type
Keynote Speaker
TimeMonday, 11 August 20259:00am - 10:30am PDT
LocationWest Building, Ballroom AB
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