Art Restart Podcast: Damian Stamer

Damian Stamer in a blue shirt with art in the backgroundSince the advent of artificial intelligence and its astonishing image-generating capacities, artists have been both disturbed and fascinated by it. Painter Damian Stamer is an ideal guide through of a deeper exploration of how AI might radically reshape the act of making art and the role of the artist in society.

Known for transforming photographs of abandoned barns and rural landscapes into luminous, memory-laden canvases, Damian has begun experimenting with AI-generated images as source material for his paintings. In this episode of the Art Restart podcast, he reflects on how working with AI has deepened his understanding of intuition, authorship and faith in an age increasingly defined by machines.

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Damian is a graduate of the UNCSA visual arts high school program and both UNCSA and the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts have his paintings in their collections.
 
The Art Restart podcast is hosted by Pier Carlo Talenti and is produced by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.