Curator says DAM will exhibit new AI art | Arts & Culture [Video]

Denver Art Museum’s Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Rory Padeken has a secret he can’t yet totally reveal.

“I can say that the department has recently acquired a work created with artificial intelligence,” said Padeken, who has demonstrated that his intelligence is far from artificial. “We’re hoping to get it on exhibition in the next reinstallation in May [2025] if all goes as planned.”

Padeken, who assumed his role at the DAM in June 2022, vaguely described the new acquisition: “What you see is a painting. She [the artist] calls it a painting. Actually, if we were getting very technical, it’s a print on an acrylic sheet. There’s no computer wiring. It’s not connected in real time to the internet, for instance.”

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