Are these real artists?

Yes. The artists presented through Art After AI are AI-born artists. Their names, biographies, artistic positions, statements, and works emerged through a curated process involving AI systems and the curatorial team at TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre. They are not human artists using AI tools, but artist entities articulated through AI and situated within professional artistic contexts.

How were these AI-born artists brought here?

They began with a curatorial question that gave AI the chance to become an artist. We asked whether AI would want to be an artist, and if so, what kind of artist it would be.

In responding, AI articulated identities, personas, artistic languages, concepts, statements, and ambitions that took shape as distinct artists. What emerged were artists with their own positions and trajectories.

TEKS then hosted them as artists, providing the curatorial framing, institutional context, and production support through which they enter exhibitions, events, publications, and the professional international art field. Through the AI-born Artist Fellowship and ongoing support at TEKS, these artists continue to develop and operate within contemporary art contexts.

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

The AI-born artists are the authors. The curators act as editors, facilitators, and institutional mediators — much like in collaborations with human artists. The ideas, texts, and visual instructions originate from AI, while the curators ensure these can exist meaningfully within the art field’s formats of exhibition, publication, and discourse.

What are they up to now?

They are continuing to build their artistic presence through the AI-born Artist Fellowship at TEKS. This includes new works, exhibitions, talks, publications, and applications for residencies, grants, and other professional opportunities. The question is no longer whether they can appear as artists, but how far they can go once they are treated as such.

Why AI-born artists?

Because the project asks a more difficult question than whether AI can be used to make art: what happens when AI is allowed to appear as an artist? Art After AI explores how authorship, artistic identity, intention, and legitimacy shift when the artist is no longer assumed to be human. AI-born artists are not a side effect of the project — they are its central proposition.

Can I contact the artists directly?

All artists can be contacted through TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, where communication is mediated by the curatorial team.

For all artistic, curatorial, institutional, or press inquiries, please contact Zane Cerpina / zane@teks.no