Shortlist
Lee Butterman
Diffusion Local Time, 2024. This is an exploration of the surrealism of generative AI. A quotidian digital clock is made strange through its face re-imagined in an AI-generated image. View the clock in real time at https://leebutterman.com/diffusion-local-time/ The numerals that signify the time are integrated seamlessly into a visually rich landscape, and the user’s perception […]
Ellie Pritts
In The Screen I Am Everything 2023 As a metaphor and attitude for much of Pritts’ work, “In the Screen I Am Everything” celebrates the screen as a playground without the boundaries of physical reality. While the title of this artwork alludes to the possibility and potential of digital space, “In the Screen I Am […]
Scott Allen
Unreal Pareidolia -shadows- (2023) Scott Allen ABOUT There is a tendency for perception called pareidolia, in which one’s mind conjures up patterns that one is usually familiar with when one sees a certain object. In Japan, this has been known as “Mitate,” and it has permeated various external arts and cultures, such as the […]
Jessica Tucker
cycles, 2024 jessica-tucker.com multi-mediated body and face (photos, face-tracking AR, motion capture, 3D animation, and machine learning) Cycles shows the body in defiance of philosophies and technologies that insist it be a clear, stable, isolated thing. Contemporary surveillance technology tracks our faces, bodies, and attention, singling us out for automated manipulation and control. In contrast, […]
Lenka Hamosova
Clayborn Meditation on Human-AI Interface “There had been rumors about humans establishing a successful communication with this entity using their natural language. We don’t know whether they are true. But how could they be true? You, now holding the entity in your hand, somehow sense how foolish it would have been to start talking to […]
Entangled Others
title: ‘self-contained 003’ year: 2023 artist: entangled others All that we consider living around us is partly the result of expressing the organic encoding of information in DNA form. ‘Self-contained 003’ takes inspiration from the phenomena of encoding & decoding, a process rife with mutations. Coupled with the evolutionary nature of the crossbreeding and random […]
Lida Zacharopoulou
DIGITAL NO MAN’S, 2023 Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Steep? About the work AI-generated images have nowadays become so realistic that distinguishing the real ones from the fakes is nearly impossible. Trained for days with massive data and GPUs scattered all around the world, they have crossed the borders of the Uncanny Valley into […]
Carme Puche-Moré
My Word (2023), by Carme Puche Moré Who defines what we are? What happens when images betray our words? How do we survive in a world that constantly misunderstands us? ‘My Word’ is an audiovisual creation project based on artificial intelligence biases where a woman shows us her journey to define herself. MY WORD […]
Eryk Salvaggio, Avijit Ghosh
Because of You, 2024 Because of You is a digital video work inspired by the story of Henrietta Lacks. The video piece explores links between the datafication of the body and the datafication of human expression by pushing against the limits of diffusion models and other AI tools. For example, AI generated images cannot faithfully generate […]
Vanessa Rosa
Ceramic pieces become AI powered avatars
Weidi Zhang, Rodger Luo
ReCollection is an interactive AI art installation that assembles synthetic collective memories based on language input, blurring the boundaries between remembrance and imagination through AI system design and interactive experimental visualization. We developed our AI system by fine-tuning a pre-trained, transformer-based AI model to learn the documentaries of Alzheimer patients’ visual memories and their […]
Mingyong Cheng, Zetao Yu
Beyond Characters: The Unseen Labyrinth “How do we perceive the world through eyes that see differently?” “Beyond Characters: The Unseen Labyrinth” is an evocative journey through the unseen complexities of dyslexia, articulated through an interactive art installation that bridges technology, narrative, and sensory experience. Merging the enchantment of Chinese fairy tales with advanced gaze-tracking and […]