The rise of machine learning and generative AI is impacting artists of all kinds in unprecedented ways. With this exhibition, we are asking whether artists will retain agency over creativity, mastering the machines, or whether they will become subservient – even obsolete (somehow, we doubt that).
What we're looking for is work that transcends the status quo you've all seen coming from the generative engines - the fantasy warriors, portraits of impossibly attractive people, or jokey rhyming prose - and instead rises to a new level where the hand and mind of the artist assert control over the output.
We're looking for art that changes how we see the world and see ourselves, and provides insight or commentary on how we regard these machines and their abrupt intrusion into the creative process.
To that end, we encourage artists to work back into the pieces the machines create if they desire, using the digital editing software or analog processes of your choice. So your file may be heavily altered by Photoshop, or even turned into a cyanotype or an intaglio print. Or it may remain as a digital file, which the gallery will output onto an agreed medium such as digital printing on fine art paper or a substrate such as a metal plate, or in the case of poetry produce as a printed object using letterpress or calligraphy on archival paper.
Artists whose work is chosen for the exhibition will be invoiced for the direct costs of materials used for such production, as well as for simple, economical framing. The work will not be exhibited until the invoice for those material costs are paid in full. The gallery will not impose a markup on these costs.
The exhibition will be taking place in San Francisco's SoMa District -- ground zero for the AI Revolution -- and will be held during September and October 2024 during which time several AI conferences, including TEDAI 2024, will be taking place.
We look forward to your entry.
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