AI x The Artsphere
July 13 - 26, 2020
Arts newest medium.
On the week of 13 July 2020, we dedicated our platform to exploring AI’s evolving relationship within the art world. We spoke with leading artists, founders, AI collectives, and data scientists in the field to learn more about AI’s positive and negative potentials for art.
OUR AI COMMUNITY
Rob & Nick Carter
Rob and Nick Carter are a husband and wife artistic duo living and working in London. In 2020, they exhibited ‘Dark Factory Portraits’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, featuring Portraits autonomously painted from photographs by an industrial robot using acrylics and brushes on a vertically-mounted support.
Ai-Da Robot
Ai-Da is the world’s first ultra-realistic AI robot artist. She can draw, and is a performance artist. As a machine, with AI capabilities, her artist persona is the artwork, along with her drawings, performance art and collaborative paintings and sculptures.
Obvious
Obvious is collective of friends, artists, and researchers, driven by a common sensibility to questions surrounding the increasing advent of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2018 their AI generated portrait was the first work of art to be offered by an auction house, selling at Christie’s for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high estimate.
Visualogical
Founded by Natasha Gertler and Victoria Westerman, Visualogical is an ArtxScience curatorial collective committed to creating stimulating systems of social investigation, introspection and intervention, tackling some of the most urgent issues of our contemporary zeitgeist.
Larissa Catelano
Larissa Castellano is an Italian creative technologist. She studied Fine Arts and Information Science at Cornell University and helped develop VR film at a creative studio in London. She is interested in exploring multiple canvases and the way each medium changes the relationship between the viewer and the piece.
Till Langschied
Basel based artist Till Langschied explores the constantly evolving relationships between virtual and analogue spaces, operating at the boundaries of these realms. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts at the AMD Düsseldorf and under Chus Martinez at the Institut Kunst HGK.
Teddy Favre-Gilly
Teddy Favre-Gilly is a cloud AI consultant for a FANG (Facebook Amazon Netflix Google) company, working in large part with Media & Entertainment clients. He graduated from UCL in Intelligent Systems and Management, and now consults fortune 500 companies on their digital and data strategy, and works to develop emerging technologies as cloud services
Sholto Douglass
AI Consultant Sholto Douglass has been involved with AI research in everything from robotics to protein folding at both Sydney and Tsinghua University. He’s currently interested in working out how to develop childlike curiosity in robots - so that they can learn about the world without our guidance.
Robbie Wyness
Robbie Wyness, is a masters student at Goldsmiths, University of London. His current dissertation seeks to examine the potential political implications of A.I. Art. His research focuses on the potential for an artwork without a human artist in the context of aesthetic and social theory.
