God, Human, Machine: Images and Imaginations of Religion in the Age of AI

The con­fer­ence draws atten­tion to the hith­er­to large­ly neglect­ed aes­thet­ic, eth­i­cal, and intel­lec­tu­al impli­ca­tions of AI-gen­er­at­ed imagery in reli­gious con­texts. We invite schol­ars and researchers to sub­mit paper pro­pos­als that crit­i­cal­ly exam­ine how AI tech­nolo­gies are reshap­ing reli­gious images and imag­i­na­tions across tra­di­tions, cul­tures, and social con­texts. We seek con­tri­bu­tions, which explore the ways in which socio-tech­nolo­­gies such as Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) and com­put­er-gen­er­at­ed imagery (CGI) both inform and are shaped by reli­gious images and imag­i­na­tions across tra­di­tions, cul­tures, and social con­texts. We invite the­o­ret­i­cal and empir­i­cal research papers that exam­ine how AI-gen­er­at­ed imagery offers new avenues to ren­der the Unseen tan­gi­ble and enact the expres­sive dimen­sion of reli­gious texts, as well the ways in which these tech­nolo­gies are employed by reli­gious prac­ti­tion­ers to inform their ideas about human rela­tions to the world and the Sacred.