Deconstructing AI in Artistic Practice
Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet Sola, Erin Lewis, Ellen Pearlman (2025)
Abstract
This panel examines the intersections of generative AI with material and installation art practices through three distinct studies, each highlighting a unique dimension of AI's role in contemporary creative processes. The first panellists explore AI's capacity for creating physical sculptures, reflecting on the intricate combination of AI capabilities and human craftsmanship necessary to materialise digital forms into physical sculptures. The second one investigates how textile and fashion designers integrate generative AI into creative workflows, revealing a gap between digital outputs and the tangible realities of material-based design, which calls for novel tools and methods. And the final panelist delves into "Language Is Leaving Me," a cinematic AI installation that critiques AI's inability to fully capture cultural and epigenetic memory, drawing attention to biases in large language models. Collectively, these studies emphasize AI's potential and limitations in artistic practices, underscoring the critical need for human oversight and creative intervention to bridge digital outputs with physical, cultural, and affective dimensions in diverse material contexts.
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Republic of Korea