Midjourney Killed the Photoshop Star: Software Studies and Nonhuman Graphicality

The talk is titled "Midjourney Killed the Photoshop Star: A Public Talk on Software Studies and Nonhuman Graphicality" and handles the rise of AI image generation platforms has rattled graphic design communities questioning the role of nonhuman image makers in digital visual culture. In this public talk, Aaron Knochel explores how nonhuman graphicality changes our relationship to images and speculates what graphic design software like Photoshop may become. Knochel contends that software is a collaborating mediator in the assemblage of making and if undertheorized suggests an invisibility that occludes our relationships to images and computational systems.