Art@AI projects

Resulting from an open call organised by Dual&Day and TheArtCouch, a number of art projects that are using Artificial Intelligence were selected. This initiative is open and continuous, aiming at making this projects visible to an audience of corporations that are developing AI applications or are using them in their operations, and are seeking for new possibilities and ideas.

Are you an artist using AI? Feel free to submit your project(s), with full details, to Frederic.
Are you a business trying to get in touch with (one of) these artists and explore ways of collaboration? Get in touch with Erwin.

General vision of AI:

I see AI as an inspirator and a collaborator

Using AI in innovative ways:

In the case of text based AI, it can help to finish ideas, turn them upside down or take them from a different angle. In working with a lot of data like user input it can help to organise these data.

General vision for AI:

AI as a blender of all existing data and thus culture – finding new connections in an already established framework. Raising the question if a new frontier can be found out of history – or does the „new“ stand on itself with no tangible connections.

Using AI in innovative ways:

Instead of letting AI assimilate a predefined style or subject I open up the blender as a child and put a phletora of unrelated data inside it.

General vision for AI:

For me AI is another tool such as drawing, sketching, Modelling. An AI can be manipulated in such a way that it can make a drawing which is on one hand created by the AI yet heavily influenced by the artist and therefore still become a unique signature piece of the artist. I use AI to create landscapes that I otherwise never would have thought of. Yet manipulating the forms to such extends that it becomes an artwork on its own. For me this is however only the first step of many. The goal of my ai landscapes is that I combine them in for example Photoshop to create digital collages and eventually transfer the artworks through printmaking with the use of a lasercutter and manual inking and printing processes

Using AI in inovative way:

I’m using AI to create almost unimaginable landscapes where I transfer them afterwards trough a lasercutter which engraves the image in (usually) a piece of wood. Which allows me as a printmaker to continue on manipulating the digital image by hand in a physical form where the end product will almost always be a unique woodcut

General vision for AI:

I make dance performances and installations. Since 2018 I started to replace my dancers by robots. At this moment I use AI to help me choreograph my robots, so I don’t have to do all the work by myself.

Using AI in inovative way:

AI helps me to develop a new way of creating dance, for dancers and for machines. In a future project I collaborate with the team of Computational Creativity at VUB to develop an AI that can assist me to choreograph a human dancer. Another project involves dancers that will create dance by learning movements of an AI enhanced robot.

General vision for AI:

I like to think about the concept of databases, where are existing collections of information in our society (museums, libraries, ….)? My interest is to explore the creative possibilities of AI. Not with the purpose of making the world more efficient in cost and speed. But Use AI as a creative tool, like a paint brush. I dream of generated garments that change their design depending on various data input. This vision needs the support of creative AI. I find it exciting to think of 3D generated output through AI. Many of today’s visual outputs are two dimensional.

General vision for AI:

Working with deep learning models (GANs) and photography to create alternative views and interpretations of the industrialized rural landscape in the Netherlands. Other projects involve similar studies into how the machine re-interprets photographs.

Using AI in innovative way:

Exploring the creativity of visual AI and contrasting it with human created images/photographs and text prompts.