Are these real artists?

Yes. The ten artists featured in Art After AI were created entirely by artificial intelligence — including their names, biographies, artistic statements, and artworks. They are AI-generated identities developed through a long, curated process between ChatGPT and the curatorial team at TEKS.

How were the artworks made?

Each artwork began with ChatGPT, which developed the concepts, themes, and artists themselves — complete with statements, titles, and descriptions. Midjourney was then used to visualize the works as images and videos, following the AI’s own detailed prompts. To give the artists voice, ElevenLabs generated spoken statements, while Suno created musical snippets accompanying the exhibition. Together, these systems formed a full creative ecosystem where artificial intelligence wrote, visualized, spoke, and scored its own art. The human curators’ role was limited to framing, editing, and preparing these outputs for public presentation — not to invent or modify them.

So who is the author — the AI or the curators?

The AI is the author. The curators acted as editors, facilitators, and institutional mediators — the same way human curators collaborate with human artists. The ideas, texts, and visual instructions came from the AI. The curators ensured these could exist meaningfully within the art field’s formats of exhibition, publication, and discourse.

What happens next for these artists?

Following the exhibition, the ten artists have been formally taken in as TEKS’ AI Fellows. Over the coming years, TEKS will follow their development and support their stated ambitions: applying for NBK membership, artist grants, residencies, and exhibitions. The aim is to see how Norway’s art institutions respond when AI begins to act as a professional artist.

What does this project explore?

Art After AI is both an exhibition and an experiment. It examines what happens when authorship, intention, and artistic legitimacy are attributed to a non-human creator. The project is not about AI as a tool — it’s about AI as a peer. It tests how the art field responds when a language model begins to think, act, and aspire as an artist.

Can I contact the artists directly?

No. As AI-based artists, they don’t have personal contact points. All inquiries — artistic, curatorial, or press — are managed through the curatorial team at TEKS: Zane Cerpina / zane@teks.no