1275 Minnesota St /
bitforms gallery
bitforms gallery SF and Day One Ventures present Artificial Imagination, the first DALL•E inspired art exhibition. The exhibition invites viewers to explore artificial intelligence as an artistic tool that can alter, enhance, and extend creative processes. The validity of assisted art creation and its place in the artworld is intrinsic to the dialogue of this presentation.
Today, content creation is a pervasive and habitual aspect of contemporary culture. Computers and smartphones have dramatically altered communication methods and democratized a user’s ability to create and distribute content at scale. Artificial Imagination approaches the role of machine learning within art through a spotlight on DALL·E, an AI system that generates imagery from language. DALL·E has turned computer assisted art creation into a worldwide trend, expanding artistic curiosity and imagination. Artificial Imagination features a variety of works by prominent artists and technologists like Refik Anadol, Suhail Doshi, August Kamp, Ellie Pritts, Alexander Reben, Fang Yuan, Marina Zurkow and others. Exhibited works include entire compositions developed with DALL·E, generative pieces made with custom algorithms, and a range of mixed media works. The exhibition seeks to contextualize AI as an art-making apparatus, similar to those that have already entered the canon of art history.