art after ai

program

Online exhibition at artafter.ai
01.11.2025 — 31.03.2026

Onsite at TEKS.studio
27.09.2025 — 09.11.2025

curatorial statement

What happens to art after artificial intelligence? How has it changed? Or been made? How will it change as AI evolves? How—and who—will perceive art made by AI? Or any art, even traditional crafts, once our vision has been shaped by AI and its tools? What about authenticity? Originality? Crafts and techniques that took artists years to master? Who is the author behind AI-generated images? Or AI co-created works? Can machines share authorship with humans? Is the artist of the future a prompt engineer?

These are some of the questions Art After AI asks. At the same time, the exhibition shows how art has been changed forever. There is no going back. No return to an old way of seeing. You cannot unsee what you have seen through the lens of AI.

The exhibition revisits artists first featured in EE Journal #4: Art After AI (2023), investigating how their practices have shifted since—and how the line between the artist using AI and the artist made by AI is dissolved. 

Curated by Stahl Stenslie and Zane Cerpina
Produced & financed by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre
Partner exhibition at The Wrong Biennale 2025 — thewrong.org

Read more at TEKS.no

selected works

The eight artworks are striking manifestations of a future full of ruptures, surprises, and priceless new experiences. Andersson & Bergman documents an anti-AI protest by Sámi artists. Clarke’s robot companion shows its first AI painting. Singh & Thompson’s AI-generated image shows distorted hands affirming how AI loves those with disabilities. Yirrkala Dhunba paints petri-dishes with DNA mutations to secure indigenous futures under climate collapse. David Kim’s 3D-printed ribcage presents the modified body as armor in future warfare. Novák uses AI to calculate the statistical “average color” and pantone swatch of planetary collapse. Kaelen Varga’s glitch image series sabotages commercial AI systems, turning dataset corruption into resistance. Sofia Anwarian turns her audience into patients, held until AI finds a diagnosis — revealing care as captivity.

produced by

The exhibition is part of the Art After AI program initiated by TEKS in 2025. It explores the profound impact of AI technologies on contemporary art. The project is a follow-up to the EE Journal’s issue Art After AI published by TEKS.press in spring 2023. The program critically investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming artistic practice, creative thinking and cultural production. What new forms of expression does AI enable? How does it challenge our understanding of authorship, originality and the role of the artist? What ethical, philosophical and political questions arise when AI enters the domain of art creation?

what’s next?