In the age of AI, art is undergoing a subtle yet profound transformation. In 2019, the Portrait of Edmond Belamy created by the Parisian art collective Obvious fetched a high price of $432,000 at a Christie’s auction in London. In August 2022, President of Incarnate Games Jason Allen’s AI-generated artwork helped him win the Colorado State Fair art competition. He won in the digital art category with his artwork Space Opera Theatre. Thus, represented by entities such as ChatGPT, Sora, and Midjourney, the realm of AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) spanning across linguistic, auditory, and visual arts domains has become an undeniable presence for art creators.
The exhibition features a diverse range of perspectives and forms, including bio-fabrics, 3D games, paintings, photography, short films, and jewelry. The works in the exhibition are from a variety of perspectives and forms, including: installations, bio-fabrics, 3D games, paintings, photographs, digital short films, jewellery and accessories, and so on. Through their works, the artists in this exhibition show their thoughts and attitudes towards AI and art, people and technology from multiple perspectives, at multiple levels. For instance, in Zongbo Jiang’s video work Shared Planet, he created a world where wildlife thrives against the backdrop of the human lockdown. He employed Visual Activism to provoke contemplation on the environmental issues overlooked amid the frenzy of technological advancement and excessive production. In Yikai Wang’s game artwork AIvine Comedy, he uses AI-generated software to create a world set in 2073 where the proletariat has been replaced by AI. He believes that artificial intelligence will become a key factor in exacerbating or resolving human inequality issues, and the ultimate direction will depend on humanity’s decisions regarding AI development.
In Chenmo Wu ‘ s video work The Lost Conversation, AI entities inhabit numerous surveillance cameras on the streets of London, observing the human world through electronic devices and engaging in intriguing conversations. Chenmo Wu proposes that if AI were to acquire any human trait, it might be emotions. In Hanzhi Tang’s painting FUSION, mirrors become a medium linking humans and the environment. She reinterprets AI-generated artwork through painting, aiming to delve into her fear of digitization’s capacity to concretize abstract concepts. In jewelry designer Xin Zhang’s work Memory Boxes, she narrates different stories through jewelry pieces imbued with the unique power of “authenticity” and “reality”, expressing humanity’s most unique memories and emotions. She believes that human creativity encompasses not only technical output but also emotions, experiences, and unique perspectives, something current AI cannot achieve. In the performance art and digital inkjet painting War Dream Lab by technology artist Bai Liu, AI technology transforms 500 graffiti artworks created by the public into a short poem about collective dream memories of war and then uses the poem text as input instructions to generate images through AI. Ultimately, this painting, containing collective human dream memories of war, is born. The thirty groups of works in this exhibition bring us a variety of perspectives and thoughts, enabling us to have a deeper understanding of AI and art from more levels and perspectives and to gain greater imagination.
Art in the age of AI brings new changes to art creation, artworks, and the art market. In the continuous fusion of technology and art, where will art go? This exhibition enables us to foresee some possible directions.
Exhibition Venue: LOWLOWLAND, No.16 Gui Gang Yi Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Curatorial and Execution Team Grey Point:
Xiaohui Wu, Yupei Liang, Xiangxiang Huang, Xinyi Liu,Yuyang Hu
Exhibition Design: Zijian Chen
List of Participating Artists:
Luoqing Cai/Peiyan Xu, Ting Ru Chen, Yanci Chen, Ruilin Fu, Goooodlan, Ziyi Huang, Nenghao He, Shan Hua,Zongbo Jiang, Yaohua Li, Peiyi Liang, Bai Liu, Yawen Luo, Yitian Luo, Jiaying Lin/Xiaotong Liu, Nan Mo, Mindful Circuit( Jiangke Chen, Yishan Liu, Jinze Zhao, Yutong Liu) , Qiyu Peng, Psyche Studio( Zidian Pan, Xueyi Huang, Xuyi Yao), Fanrui Sun/Yu Chen, Junyi Shi, Hanzhi Tang, Yikai Wang, Chenmo Wu, Sanji Yang, Yiran Zhou, Yanxiaomeng Zhang/Jian Gao, Xin Zhang, Keyuan Zhang, Rara(Yumeng Zhou) (Artists listed in no particular order)