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  "title": "Thinking About AI Art with Dominic McIver Lopes in Porto",
  "author": {
    "name": "Domingos Faria"
  },
  "content": "<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On February 6, at the Batalha Centro de Cinema, I had the pleasure of taking part in the Porto session of the <a href=\"https://dfaria.eu/28409\">symposium with Dominic McIver Lopes</a>. The <a href=\"https://dfaria.eu/27187\">roundtable</a> brought together Vítor Guerreiro, Gonçalo Marcelo, and myself, and I presented a talk titled “In what sense could AI Systems be artists?”. The discussion was followed by Dominic McIver Lopes’s lecture “AI Art and Artists: What They Are, What They Could Be, What They Should be”, closing a lively and inspiring afternoon of exchange on aesthetics and technology.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"layout\":{\"type\":\"flex\",\"flexWrap\":null}} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":39327,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://dfaria.eu/df/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Unknown-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39327\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\",\"layout\":{\"type\":\"flex\",\"flexWrap\":null}} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":39328,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://dfaria.eu/df/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1000043191-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39328\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":39330,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://dfaria.eu/df/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1000043190-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39330\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></figure>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":39333,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https://dfaria.eu/df/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IMG_7974-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39333\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->",
  "summary": "On February 6, at the Batalha Centro de Cinema, I had the pleasure of taking part in the Porto session of the symposium with Dominic McIver Lopes. The roundtable brought together Vítor Guerreiro, Gonçalo Marcelo, and myself, and I presented a talk titled “In what sense could AI Systems be artists?”. The discussion was followed...",
  "createdAt": "2026-02-07T14:37:05+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-07T14:37:05+00:00"
}