The College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) recently hosted its first seminar in the Law and Tech Talk (LTT) Series, featuring three Education City artists who described how technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), is shaping their art. Their insights fostered a critique of the existing legal regime to protect artists.
Art has evolved side-by-side with the developments in technology. The three Edu-cation City-based artists have been demonstrating how, with the emergence of technology, computers can create sophis-ticated works of art in a way that could minimize, or even eliminate, human input. Hadeer Omar, Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth Uni-versity School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ); Jesse Payne, Associate Professor, VCUQ; and Dr. James She, Associate Pro-fessor, College of Science and Engineering, HBKU, have been at the forefront of their field. Dr. She, a computer engineer by training, launched the first AI and art event in Qatar in 2019.
