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AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Now and Then: Machine Learning Restores John Lennon's Real Voice

The Beatles' final new song used machine-learning audio separation developed through Peter Jackson's production work to isolate John Lennon's voice from an old recording. The surviving members and production team then completed the track.

audio restorationmachine learningThe Beatlesmusic production

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Neural Zoo: Specimens From an Evolution That Never Happened

Sofia Crespo's Neural Zoo series uses generative models to recombine visual cues from insects, coral, bones, organs, and other living structures into detailed creatures that do not exist.

generative artsynthetic biologyAI creaturesdigital art

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Myriad (Tulips): Ten Thousand Hand-Labeled Flowers Behind an AI Artwork

Anna Ridler photographed and classified roughly ten thousand tulips by hand, turning the dataset itself into an independent wall-sized artwork. Each flower is both an image and a coordinate in the later machine-learning process.

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AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Learning to See: A Neural Network Dreams Over Cloth, Sand, and Hands

Memo Akten's live installation points a camera at ordinary materials such as cloth, sand, water, and hands. Neural networks reinterpret the moving tabletop scene through learned worlds of oceans, flowers, clouds, and other visual categories.

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AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

ILLIAC Suite: A 1956 Computer Helps Compose for String Quartet

Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson used the ILLIAC computer in 1956 to generate musical material for a string quartet. The work is a landmark of early computer-assisted composition, built from explicit rules and musical experiments.

computer musicalgorithmic compositionmusic historystring quartet

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Connect the Lines: Match Your Doodle with a Munch Sketch

Draw a few lines on a tablet and AI searches roughly 7,000 fragile Edvard Munch sketches for the closest match, revealing odd dogs, cartoons, and figure studies rarely displayed.

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Play NowAdded Sep 2, 2026

Hidden Door: Step Into a Ready-Made World and Change the Plot

Create an account, pick a catalog world, and make a character. A narrator continues from your choices. It is not a three-button branching book, and it is not a blank sandbox you can open without logging in.

AI storytellinginteractive fictionrole-playingillustrated adventure

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

WORDS BEYOND WORDS: An Endless Poem Growing in the Browser

A custom generative system summons an AI poet that continues writing as the browser window turns into a dynamic book that adds pages, changes shape, and appears to breathe.

generative poetrybrowser artAI literatureLumen Prize

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Walzersymphonie: A Composer and Generative AI Rework the Waltz

A 2025 Ars Electronica project in which a composer collaborates with generative AI around the waltz. The work exposes how the machine enters melody, arrangement, and musical judgment instead of presenting only a finished result.

AI musicgenerative compositionwaltzArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

vgpu: Make WebGPU Graphics and Computation Easier for AI to Write

Vercel Labs' vgpu library provides higher-level tools for shaders, 3D graphics, GPU tensors, and neural-network computation in WebGPU. Its polished browser examples show complex GPU visuals that are easier for both people and coding agents to assemble.

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Play NowAdded Sep 2, 2026

Transmission: Turn a Glass Cube Into a Real-Time Prism

This vgpu browser demo renders a transparent glass cube refracting its surroundings in real time, including Snell refraction, chromatic dispersion, Fresnel reflection, and layered blur.

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AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

The Sylphs: Making Borges's Imaginary Creatures Visible

The project turns language-based creatures from Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings into post-photographic images, asking what changes when a machine gives visual form to literary invention.

AI photographyBorgesimaginary creaturesLumen Prize

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

The Recombinant Room: A Space That Reassembles Itself From Materials

The project feeds architectural, material, and ecological data into a computational system that continually recombines them into changing visions of interior space.

generative architecturedata artecologyspatial design

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

The Garden, Eternal California: A Machine-Imagined Digital Ecology

This generative art project creates changing plant forms from ideas about California ecology, memory, species, and machine imagination. The online story documents an evolving visual system rather than a single fixed picture.

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Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

The Falling City: A Machine-Watched City That Keeps Misreading You

This 2025 Ars Electronica work connects emotion and movement recognition to a changing city model, using fallible computer vision to examine surveillance, public space, and bodily freedom.

computer visionsurveillance artinteractive cityArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

The Artificial Literature Laboratory: Writing With a Language Model in Public

A hands-on language-model writing bench that lays out prompts, source material, probabilities, and revision steps, allowing visitors to participate in machine literature like an experiment.

AI writinglanguage modelinteractive literatureArs Electronica

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Telos I: After Human Extinction, an AI Builds Itself a Body

A mythic mixed-reality landscape tells the story of an artificial intelligence that creates a body for itself while searching for a new purpose after humanity has disappeared.

mixed realityposthuman fictionAI characterLumen Prize

AI CreationsAdded Sep 2, 2026

Somatic Landscapes: Growing Digital Terrain From Body Movement

The project uses AI and movement data to translate bodily poses into virtual terrain that expands, folds, and changes, turning dance into a landscape-making tool.

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Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Reverse Turing Test: Pretend to Be an AI Inside Virtual Reality

Visitors enter VR and try to pass as an AI among machine characters. By reversing the classic Turing test, the work turns the question of who seems human into a playable identity game.

virtual realityTuring testidentity gameArs Electronica

Idea LabAdded Sep 2, 2026

Rapid Evolution: Inventing Future Animals for a Changing Climate

This 2025 Ars Electronica work asks AI to imagine new bird species adapted to heat, drought, and habitat loss, then invites visitors to continue inventing animals of the future.

AI artclimate fictionspeculative biologyArs Electronica