AI Art: Finding its Place between Technology, Contemporary Art and NFT

The past few years have seen AI art develop into an increasingly widespread phenomenon. From its beginnings with DeepDream and style transfer, to GANs, CLIP and GPT-3, AI art has long ago begun to move beyond the world of research and academia to find itself straddling the worlds of media and contemporary art; and now it has moved into the sphere of NFT. The contemporary art world's fascination with the social impact of facial recognition, recommendation systems and deep fakes has encouraged artists to explore AI critically as subject matter, whereas NFTs have turned attention back towards aesthetics. This talk will give an overview of how artists and technologists are using and thinking about machine learning, its creative potential and societal impact, and will look where the field might develop in the future.

Luba Elliott

Luba Elliott is a curator, writer and researcher specialising in artificial intelligence in art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the latest developments in creative AI through talks and exhibitions at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including Impakt Festival, The Serpentine Galleries, arebyte, The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, CogX, NeurIPS and ICCV. Her recent projects include the Feral File exhibition 'Reflections in the Water' and the ART-AI Festival in Leicester, UK. She founded the NeurIPS Creativity and Design Workshop and curated the online galleries aiartonline.com and computervisionart.com. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, she worked in various start-ups, including the art collector database Larry’s List. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge and has a certificate in Design Thinking from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute D-school in Potsdam.

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Sylvain Levy