Art and artificial intelligence

“Letterographia” research develops syntactic and logical ideograms using a sign traceable to a minimal human figure. Each elaboration of the Lettero ideogram expresses an abstract concept, explicated by an archetypal Greek or Latin term from the “Eurographia” code. Lettero Graphia. 2004 Lettero is an essential geometric figure composed of a triangle and a circle, a…

Another research developed in the Venice Biennale for Ubiqua, called “Mimicon,” explored the expressive possibilities of human gestures as a universal language. We are dealing with an archaic thought that activates primordial connections with speech, and is rooted in the human kinaesthetic experience, in our being in the world, as no artificial intelligence can ever…

But we are interested in understanding some of the deeper cultural, cognitive and artistic implications of this process, beyond its technological aspects. Some artistic research at the beginning of the digital age, presented at the Venice Biennale in 1986, and at the Gruppenkunstwerke in Kassel the following year, touches on some of these aspects. The…

In describing the essence of the process of generating images using artificial intelligence, we will not focus on the technicalities, which are constantly evolving, but on the revolutionary characteristics of AI image generation in relation to other image generation processes developed over millennia of human history. Indeed, the new process has peculiar properties that propose…

We cannot ignore the impact that AI image generation technology will have on all creative industries, including art. Already, images, videos, and music can be produced through simple prompts, and this process is only in its infancy. Creative professionals and artists will have to take a stand. It is likely that many contemporary artists who…

The connection between images and texts in artificial intelligence is profound. It occurs both at the origin, during the process of training AI models by labeling images with texts, and at the moment of creation, when a text prompt asks the model to generate new images. Investigating the relationship between art and speech is a…

In the West art has always been practiced principally byprofessionals, who constituted a small part of society. In primitive societies, by contrast, image-making is often practiced by anyone. This is what happens to humans all over the world in the early years of development: all children draw, in primitive form. There have, moreover, been periods…

The advent of generative artificial intelligence platforms is revolutionizing the visual arts, introducing new players into the field, particularly creators with visual literacy but not necessarily manual skills. For several decades, contemporary art has focused on the conceptual act, on the idea rather than material execution. Beginning with the provocations of Marcel Duchamp, since the…

The artist using AI image generation explores universal imagery. Knowledge of the global visual universe, the ability to move through art history, to uncover deep connections, is a key skill to make ad hoc use of the “planetary palette” of AI image generation. However, the question of rights must also be addressed. In a sense,…

“Collective automatic art” is one of the most fitting definitions of the art form that could be practiced with AI image generation. Automatic, because the images are produced through automatisms made in servers by algorithms not directly controlled by the author. Collective, because their raw material is the immense amount of shared imagery, which is…