Lenka Hámošová is a designer, researcher and visual artist who explores the future use of synthetic media generated by Artificial Intelligence in the context of the post-truth era. Her research is conducted primarily through artistic research and participatory workshop methods.
She is currently based in Prague, where she is pursuing her PhD at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU).
She is one of the founding members of UROBOROS, curator of the Uroboros: Designing in Troubling Times festival.

We talk with Lenka about her love-hate relationship with synthetic media and text2image tools specifically! Along the way we explore the following: AI Models like DALLE-2 are democratizing image making and provide access to a collective imagination. How will these tools change our visual culture and even our understanding of the world? Aaaand much more! :)

Since the shownotes for this episode are too extensive to fit in here, we have collected them all in this google doc for you. Here you can find links we talk about and also a time-coded overview of the episode.

Lenka's website: https://hamosova.com/
Lenka on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lenkahamosova

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We talk to makers, artists, and researchers who use artificial intelligence and robotics in their creative practices. How are these technologies used today? How does the creative process change? What will co-creation look like in the future? And how can we contribute to a realistic and critical perspective that does not shy away from the technologies’ deficits, limitations, and impacts on society. Produced and brought to you by Alexa Steinbrück and Simon Maris from the XLab, a research lab for AI & Robotics at the BURG Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany.