In this episode, Omar Karim provides an aspirational view of AI's potential to radically expand human creativity and reinvent fields like photography. His boundary-pushing art hints at a creative AI future. Omar Karim discusses the power of AI generative art and the vast potential for AI to enhance creativity by automating tasks. And how AI allows creatives to explore ideas unfettered by lack of skills or resources. He views AI as a collaborator that enhances human creativity. He aims to develop symbiotic creative relationships between humans and AI. Furthermore, he talks about As AI art evolves, notions of truth and reality may change. Omar sees opportunities to move beyond representing reality in art. Omar envisions an AI-powered creative future where personal AI agents handle tasks and enable new forms of art. Omar Karim is an award-winning Creative Director image-maker, and author. A pioneer in generative AI photography and film. His interest lies in exploring where creativity and technology intersect. Karim has collaborated with various brands like SHOWstudio, Nike, and Beats/Apple to name a few. He has also served as a creative strategist for Meta. Omar lives and works in Hackney, London. You can follow Omar Karim on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/arthur_chance You can follow Faizan Naveed on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/phayxaan_ Image Courtesy: Omar Karim Music: 'You Don't Really Exist' by Nim Sadot

In this episode, artist Saks Afridi and Faizan talks about AI image generators. Saks sees AI as a collaborator to expand his art. He believes the artist's intention determines if an AI image is artwork. Saks is optimistic AI can enhance creativity by enabling artists to be more prolific. It can help with mundane tasks, so artists focus on expressing themselves.

For photography, Saks values capturing spontaneous moments. He thinks AI can't replace human observation and composing frames. However, incorporating AI intentionally can offer new aesthetics. Saks suggests teaching photography should cover composing for digital media, collaborating with AI, and enhancing moments in time-based on each student's AI proficiency.

Overall, Saks is optimistic about using AI to expand art but sees human intention, curiosity, and observation as key.

Born in 1975 in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saks is now based in New York City. His work fuses mysticism and storytelling to visualize a search for galaxies and worlds within oneself, combining influences from Sufi poetry, Afrofuturism, South Asian folklore, Islamic mythology, science fiction, architecture, and calligraphy. Investigating the experience of achieving belonging while feeling out of place, he likes to let the concept determine the medium. With backgrounds in advertising as a creative director and sculpture, Saks brings collaborators from diverse disciplines together to bring each project to life. He speaks four languages, and his work has earned international awards and features in major media outlets.

Music: 'You Don't Really Exist' by Nim Sadot

In this episode, Faizan and Zain discuss how AI image generators are impacting visual culture and photography. They talk about whether AI should be considered an artist or co-creator with humans. Zain believes AI still requires human creativity and intention.

They are optimistic AI can enable new aesthetics and transform visual culture. But human understanding of history, forms, and creativity still matters greatly in using AI meaningfully. They suggest teaching should cover AI's impact on the world. Students should learn some coding to understand AI tools.

The future may bring brain-machine interfaces to capture photographs just through thinking.

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Zain Naqvi is a designer and entrepreneur. His work combines of post-memory pop culture and investigational storytelling for a digital first world.

He’s been published at Fast Company, Design Taxi, and Pulptastic and is part of the Imago Mundi Project for the Venice Biennale. His graphic novel “Sparrow at Heart” was featured at Sharjah Art, in 2018 and is now part of Archives at UCLA.

Since 2020, Zain has worked in Web3 including Ape Harbour, the first metaverse shipyard with an international community.

He also serves as the co-founder of Alter, a hyper-focused curation platform that connects creators and brands from emerging economies with collectors and fans around the world through the power of digital collectibles.