Expand and Contract 2025: AI and Alternative Processes – Virtual Exhibition
Jun 3, 2025 – Aug 31, 2025
This exhibition explores AI technologies as the most recent addition to the world of alternative processes, while accepting and considering approaches that sees them as another step toward photographic creativity as we know it.
Prize Winners
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Juror & Curator
Dr. Rotem Rozental, Los Angeles Center of Photography Executive Director and Chief Curator.
Opening Reception (Virtual)
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 12-1 pm PST on Zoom RSVP HERE
Exhibition Run Dates (Virtual)
June 3, 2025 – August 31, 2025 (Virtual)
About
Expand and Contract 2025: AI and Alternative Processes considers AI technologies as the most recent addition to the world of alternative processes, along with works that explore the connections between AI, camerawork, analogue technologies and visual storytelling, whether while capturing images or printing them. These selected works are showing in conjunction with selected works featured in an in-person exhibition at our DTLA gallery, opening on June 12, 2025.
Technological developments hasten pronouncements regarding the death of photography every few decades, with the most recent trigger being digital innovations, such as digital cameras and image editing software. And yet, photography persists. In fact, it continues to re-define how we engage with one another, imagine ourselves and our position in the world. Most recently, AI caused an uproar among visual practitioners, as machines have been trained to create images using images produced by humans who were not paid for services unknowingly provided. Moreover, AI seems to pose a threat to human agency.
From a creative standpoint, this exhibition considers such conflicts and wonders whether AI is another tool that will expand alternative means to create images, or another step toward the end of photographic creativity as we know it.
The Juror
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement (Routledge, 2023) was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to exhibition catalogues, magazines, journals and. Her writings about contemporary art, visual culture, technology and image-based media were published in Artforum, Artillery, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
Juror Statement
TO COME
Features
Expand and Contract 2025: AI and Alternative Processes will feature the following FREE events and happenings:
- Virtual In-Person opening reception, Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025, 12-1pm RSVP HERE
Price Sheet and Instructions for Purchasing Artwork
Download/view price sheet TO COME.
Interested in purchasing artwork? Please email info@lacphoto.org and a representative will contact you ASAP. Thank you!