Explore the weird side of AI

cyberneticssystems artAI and ecologyArs Electronica

Cybernetic Subjects: Making Feedback Between People, AI, and Ecology Visible

This group exhibition begins with contemporary cybernetics and examines how people, AI, and ecological systems continuously affect one another, turning abstract automation loops into art objects.

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Corpus Corax: A Dinner Conversation Between Humans and Ravens

This 2025 Ars Electronica work imagines a real-time human-to-raven translator using natural-language processing and generated sound, placing interspecies communication around a shared meal.

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Co-Creator: An AI Art Machine That Asks Who Owns the Result

Shown at Ars Electronica in 2025, Co-Creator is an interactive installation presented with the visual language of a vending machine. It uses AI and machine learning to produce personalized images while raising questions about authorship, ownership, and trust.

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Clouds: Teaching a Machine to See the Sky and Its Labels

This project uses cloud imagery and machine recognition to ask whether a computer sees nature itself or only the categories and labels people placed in its training data.

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California Terrain: Reweaving Landscape Through Computation and Textiles

California Terrain brings landscape, textiles, and computational image-making together through an Indigenous craft perspective. The project examines how machine perception can recompose land without separating it from cultural ways of seeing and making.

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Black Hole: A Real-Time WebGPU Gravity Playground

This browser demo from vgpu renders a black hole in real time with ray marching, gravitational lensing, Doppler brightening, and high-dynamic-range lighting. It turns a demanding GPU scene into something you can manipulate on a webpage.

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Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk: A Voice Artist Duets With His AI Double

Voice artist Jaap Blonk performs alongside an AI vocal avatar trained on his material, using imitation, displacement, and improvisation to ask who owns a recognizable voice.

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ASTER+S > ART ^ NEUROSCIENCE: Memory, Emotion, and AI on Campus

This international campus exhibition at Ars Electronica brings neuroscience-inspired art, memory research, and AI together through sensory works about emotion, uncertainty, and systemic pressure.

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AI Facial Profiling, Levels of Paranoia

A camera assigns visitors absurd threat levels based on facial features. By making its classifications deliberately unreliable, the installation exposes the bias behind automated profiling and AI physiognomy.

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A Google Tree: Watching One Tree Through Machine Vision

This project follows how digital maps, photography, and machine vision break the same tree into conflicting images and models, revealing how a living subject changes across technical systems.

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AI Dungeon: You Type One Move, the World Rewrites the Scene

There are no three multiple-choice buttons. You write what the character does or says next, and the system continues the scene from the previous text. Opening a door is enough; sending a fantasy quest to an office is also a valid first try.

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Angie Couples Debate: Let AI Score a Long-Distance Argument

Two people join the same room from different locations, take randomly assigned sides in a video debate, and receive AI scores for each round. The site also offers couple quizzes, an AI court, and a photo booth.

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Seeds of Tomorrow: A Crowd Grows One AI Garden

Visitors plant virtual seeds through movement and attention while a generative system keeps the plants growing, accumulating everyone’s changes into a shared digital ecosystem.

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Metamorphosis: AI Light Creatures React to Your Body

A camera reads where visitors stand, move, and pause, then luminous creatures grow, split, and melt across the wall; one person and a crowd produce very different scenes.

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Interfaciality: An AI Booth Made from One Artist’s Face

This absurd AI photo booth redraws every visitor as a psychedelic body composed entirely of artist Jess Tucker’s face, turning a familiar privacy-filter aesthetic inside out.

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DADABOTS: A Nonstop AI Death-Metal Livestream

DADABOTS uses a neural network to continuously generate technical death metal for a 24-hour stream, capturing drums, distorted guitars, and growls before slipping into machine-like breakdowns.

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MIMICRY: A Robot Draws Alongside the Artist in Real Time

Sougwen Chung and robotic arm D.O.U.G._1 draw at the same table while an overhead camera reads her gestures and computer vision sends movement to the machine on the shared page.

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AARON: The AI Artist That Drew for Half a Century

Harold Cohen began developing AARON in the late 1960s, using rules, memory, and random events to compose images that plotters and painting machines could physically place on paper.

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WHAM-RT: Walk Through AI-Generated Quake II

Microsoft Research turned a world model into a controllable Quake II technical demo whose next frames are generated at more than ten frames per second rather than loaded from a stored level.