Curated by Mehdi Sefrioui, the "AI Ae: Artificial Intelligence Arts exhibition" at the American Arts Center in the White City questions and explores the creative potential of the tools provided by Artificial Intelligence in applications such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
For Walid Bendra, a devotee of argentic photography, AI is akin to "a new assistant or another brain" through which he confronts his work with images generated by Midjourney using key words or his own photos. The result is striking, and the artist himself is amazed at AI's ability "to translate emotions".
Mehdi Sefrioui looks for what might have been the image of the Berber woman before the colonial iconography that shaped the imagination. "I'm in the process of re-educating the Moroccan imagination", says the artist, highlighting the "skewed and manipulated relationship to representation" that he believes the global South may have experienced. (source: Diptykmag).
The following artists take part in the exhibition, which runs until 31 December: Christian Mamoun, Idries Karnachi, Mehdi Sefrioui, Mouad Aboulhana, Walid Bendra, Yassire Ramzi, Arno Coenen, Louise Te Poele, Rodger Werkhoven, Agoria, Charles AI, Inès Chtouki, Obvious, Takyon 236, and Thibaud Zamora.
Photo: Mehdi Sefrioui, "The future that was" series.