SYMBIOSIS: Art in the Age of AI 

Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs,

Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys

 

January 23 – March 29, 2025

The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery 

 

Curated by Alexandra Dementieva & Odelette Cho

 

Eunsu Kang and Donald D. Craig, Hexad for a Guitarist and Artificial Organisms, 2025

 

SWPK Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition, Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI, on display at the SWPK Gallery from January 23 to March 29, 2025. The exhibition features installations and digital media art by eight international artists, Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Petermfriess, Aernoudt Jacobs, Eunsu Kang, William Latham, Lev Manovich, and Koen Theys  from Belgium, Germany, the UK, and Korea. An opening reception with the artists will take place at 6:00 PM on January 23, and an Artist Talk on January 25, 4:00 PM.

 

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025, 6-8 PM

 

Performance for Eunsu Kang's Aural Fauna, January 23, 2025, 7:15-7:30 PM

 

Join guitarist and digital music composer Donald D. Craig for a jam session with five artificial organisms, creating a space for exploration and dialogue between human artistry and machine creativity.

 

ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 AT 4 PM

 

Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI delves into the evolving dynamic between human creativity and artificial intelligence, presenting a series of works by contemporary artists who embrace AI as a collaborator. These works transcend mimicry, showcasing the potential of AI to simulate and enhance human aesthetic capabilities.

 

Artificial intelligence has long been associated with the replication of human cognition and served primarily as a tool to replicate human artistic practices. As technology rapidly evolves, AI’s prowess rises above formerly held expectations, creating unprecedented opportunities for collaborative artistic expression. This exhibition captures this radical shift, showcasing how artists harness the computational power of AI to co-create and transcend traditional boundaries of immersive and visual art.

 

Utilizing new technologies, including machine learning algorithms and generative adversarial networks (GANs), the works on view explore the possibilities of a truly symbiotic relationship between human intuition and artificial logic. Their creations challenge our perceptions of creativity, and through the symbiosis of human and artificial creativity, redefine their artistic relationships, inviting audiences into an innovative and transformative artistic realm.

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Alexandra Dementieva is a multidisciplinary artist born in Moscow and based in Brussels whose work incorporates sculpture, dance, music, cinema, and performance. Her installations demonstrate an interest in both technology and human psychology.

 

Anna Frants is an internationally acclaimed new media artist, curator, and art writer born in Leningrad, USSR and currently residing in Miami. She is a co-founder of the CYLAND Media Art Lab and the CYLAND Foundation, and is a leading voice in cultural dialogue surrounding experimental art.

 

Petermfriess, Ph.D., is a European conceptual media artist based in Brussels, Belgium. With his background in space technology, Petermfriess examines creative practice blended with scientific exploration. His works have been shown at exhibitions, festivals and conferences such as Politics of The Machines (Berlin), Beijing Media Art Biennale, Lasertalk (Brussels, Fortaleza, Shanghai), and Sonar+D (Barcelona).

 

Aernoudt Jacobs is a Belgian artist who works primarily with the medium of sound. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as Bergen Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and Macba. Jacobs also co-directed Overtoon, a platform and production facility for sound art based in the centre of Brussels until 2022.

 

Eunsu Kang is an artist and educator merging art and machine learning, focusing on creative AI. Her award-winning work has been showcased globally and at conferences like ACM and NeurIPS. She teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founded the Women Art AI collective.

 

William Latham is well known for his pioneering Organic Art created in the late eighties and early nineties. His expertise spans evolutionary art, graphics, generative art, genetics, and the entertainment and video game industries. He is currently a professor of Computer Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

 

Lev Manovich is an artist, author, and one of the world’s most influential digital culture theorists. Manovich's works have been exhibited at many prestigious institutions, such as Centre Pompidou, and The Shanghai Biennale. He is the Presidential Professor of Computer Science at City University of New York’s Graduate Center and the Director of the Cultural Analytic Lab. 

 

Koen Theys is a pioneering figure of video art in Belgium. At the age of 20, his video work was purchased by MoMA, and his works have been showcased around the world at institutions worldwide including Drents Museum, American Museum of the Moving Image New York, and many more.

 

ABOUT SWPK GALLERY

SWPK Gallery — The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Foundation — is a non-profit organization committed to promoting East-West cultural exchange through the arts by sponsoring and hosting art exhibitions of national and international artists. For more information, visit: swpk.org

 

Symbiosis: Art in the Age of AI is produced in collaboration with the Donghwa Cultural Foundation and Flanders State of the Art.

 

SWPK Gallery

The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Foundation 

417 Lafayette St. 2nd Fl. NYC 

https://www.swpk.org