Is tech-based imagery fine art or just an artifact?
You will have the chance to see work by thirteen AI and Generative art pioneers while the “paint” is still wet.

Viewers can decide for themselves if this entirely new art form represents a creative breakthrough or a crushing blow. 

Curated by Julia Morton, AI + Art columnist and former director of Generative Art Project, and gallerist Christina Hiltscher of Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery, the show features human collaborating with code, data, sound, math, AI, AR, and 3D. 

Tech tools have unique attributes that expand who creates, how they produce, and what they explore.

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You’ll experience Jiabao Li’s AI-activist art in the form of edible bio-plastics. Generative artist Simon Russell visualizes sounds from endangered landscapes, and AI artist Blumquist takes us to familiar places we’ve never been. Jessica Jackson simulates human emotions, while Belowsubconscious captures dreamy utopian nightmares in her AI films. Alba Corral harnesses god mode to reshape nature’s algorithms into generative performance art. James Pricer uses data to source portraits, and E9 creates digital landscapes that leave you wondering, is that a person, place, or thing?
 
Tech-art is still wild and unvetted; and breakout innovations like these are very rare, but when they occur, they create a before-and-after demarcation line in art history.
Photography, for example, did more than lay the path to modernism; it changed our understanding of reality. Tools like computers and the internet have already left their mark, and tech-based art is bound to do the same. 

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Curated to give a wide-angle look at tech-art’s potential, the exhibition gives audiences the opportunity to shape art history with their critical choices and decide  what art’s future should look like.

Currently, there is no agreement about what good generative or AI work is or should be. That said, the pioneering individuals we are featuring are not waiting for answers or approval. Instead, the tools have become their inspiration and there guides as they explore the unfamiliar terrain of the digital landscape.

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Each week interact with guest speakers from art, tech, design online and in person  for Q&A

Upcoming Events:​​

• Studio Tour East: November 16 + 17 | noon - 6pm 

• Culinary adventure in the pacific garbage patch with Jiabao Li: November 21 | 6 - 9 pm (ticketed)

• Make your own generative artwork - artist guided: November 23 | 1 - 3 pm (rsvp) 

• 1st Sunday of the month with curator Q&A: December 1 | 2 - 5pm (rsvp)

• Closing reception: December 7 | 5 - 8pm

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