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AI Am I?

A solo museum exhibition exploring the creative relationship between people and machines.

Year: 2023–2024
Venue: The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Exhibition: Solo
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A tall sculpture of colorful interlocking pieces stands between a blue painting wall and a row of plungers. — Permanent Temporary — installation view

The exhibition brought together works made before and after the arrival of large generative AI models, alongside interactive pieces inviting the public to collaborate.

Sculptures, paintings, software, and participatory installations traced different ways of making art with machines. The selection included AI Am I?, in which descriptions proposed by artificial intelligence become physical artworks, and Speak Art Into Life, an evolving artwork shaped by visitors' spoken contributions.

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Gallery

Orange exhibition title lettering on a white wall. — AI Am I? — exhibition title wall

A winding arrangement of brass hinges fills a long plinth, with a large detailed painting and a bronze bust near the window. — Unity in Motion and Technicolor Dream Circuit — installation view

A white marble ear sculpture stands before two paintings of distorted heads and a framed cheese-faced portrait. — Ear We Go Again — installation view

Three dark woven tapestries hang on a turquoise wall, with the white marble ear sculpture and paintings across the room. — The Ethereal Passage — installation view

A freestanding door covered in spring stops stands beside a lit assemblage with metal rails; a coiled extension cord and a flip clock on a can are nearby. — Stop, Door Stop and Ceci N’est Pas Une Barriere — installation view

The plotting robot sits in front of a burgundy display wall beside nine panels of repeated found objects. — AI Plotting Robot — installation view

The split-flap criticism board hangs beside a monitor and a vitrine containing a cowboy puppet head and two small cardboard robots. — AI-Generated Criticism of this Show, Deeply Artificial Trees, Five Dollars Can Save Planet Earth, and BlabDroid — installation view

Seven columns of motorized toys, liquid timers, small displays, and trailing wires are arranged on the gallery wall. — Toybots — installation view

A tall trophy and a key-covered cane stand beside a vitrine containing a dark ceramic ring and a small assembly of electronic parts. — Keys to Lasting Youth, Precarious Hierarchies and the Paradox of Participation, Museum Donut: Ode to the Void, and Harmonious Disarray — installation view

Three paintings hang on a blue wall opposite an orange circular painting on a white wall. — A Bunch of Items That Are on Display in a Store at left; The Solar Dance at right — installation at the Crocker Art Museum

Large yellow, pink, red, and blue graffiti forms fill a green freestanding gallery wall. — SK7 — installation view

Rows of translucent red, green, blue, orange, and purple bear-like resin figures fill a white plinth. — The Inedible Spectrum — installation view

A robotic character head in a white cowboy hat displayed beside two small cardboard BlabDroids on white plinths. — Five Dollars Can Save Planet Earth and BlabDroid — installation view

Three works on a white gallery wall: a yellow-faced portrait, a small pin-covered canvas, and a painting of fox-headed figures. — Dreams of the Cheese-Faced Gentleman, The Final Resting Place of the Queen Bee, and The Council of Foxes — installation view

Three framed generative prints: a multicolored circular pattern at left, looping green and purple forms at upper right, and a radial black and gold composition at lower right. — spectroscopical_passageway at left, disobediant_strawberry at upper right, and existential_space_probe at lower right.

Elevator doors covered with multicolored looping lines on a dark background. — AI Am I? — graphics on the gallery elevator doors; artwork title unconfirmed

A line of colorful prints hangs from wires along a long white corridor wall. — AI Am I? — corridor prints; artwork titles unconfirmed

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Works and series

Six black plungers with progressively taller wooden handles stand on a white wall shelf.

Series / 37 works

AI Am I?

Artificial intelligence

Three framed generative prints: a multicolored circular pattern at left, looping green and purple forms at upper right, and a radial black and gold composition at lower right.

Series / 78 works

Thought Renders

Generative / Artificial intelligence / Interaction

A visitor stands at a blue microphone podium beside a large framed screen of generated imagery beneath a neon Speak Art Into Life sign at TED 2023.

Speak Art Into Life

Artificial intelligence / Interaction / Generative

A square blue oil painting of overlapping window-like grids and distorted architectural shapes.

Series / 27 works

amalGAN

Artificial intelligence / Generative

A tall woven textile filled with nested pixel-like geometric motifs.

Tapestries

Generative

Six black plungers with progressively taller wooden handles stand on a white wall shelf.

A Short History of Plungers and Other Things That Go Plunge in the Night

Artificial intelligence

Front view of a dense circular field of yellow-headed pins extending from a small square canvas.

The Final Resting Place of the Queen Bee

Artificial intelligence

Close-up of the robotic character head wearing mirrored sunglasses and a white cowboy hat.

Five Dollars Can Save Planet Earth

Artificial intelligence / Robotics

Seven columns of motorized toys, liquid timers, small displays, and trailing wires are arranged on the gallery wall.

Series / 15 works

Toybots

Robotics

A painting of colorful computer code hangs beside a painting of overlapping translucent circles.

code canvas

Generative

Three-quarter view of the electronic-component assemblage on a white plinth.

Harmonious Disarray

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A hand-cranked wringer on blue metal legs feeds a roll of bubble wrap.

superfluous automation: bubble wrap

Robotics

An orange extension cord is coiled on a low white plinth, with one plug extending toward the wall.

user adversary: extension cord

Sculpture

A CRT monitor showing a distorted colorful image of a seated painter.

Deeply Artificial Trees

Artificial intelligence / Generative

Close-up of a small wheeled cardboard robot with a smiling face and large circular opening on top.

BlabDroid

Robotics / Interaction

The split-flap board displays a generated criticism asking whether the work counts as art.

AI-Generated Criticism of this Show

Artificial intelligence

Green and red neon lettering reads I AM A BAD SITUATION against a dark background.

I Am a Bad Situation

Sculpture

A stained-glass panel combines blue arcs, amber circles, red accents, and a symmetrical central vertical form.

The Ascendance of the Digital Divine

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

Seven rows of translucent bears glow in rainbow colors on a purple-lit plinth.

The Inedible Spectrum

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A square screen with concentric colored patterns and three small circular displays mounted together on a wall.

Spiroflakes

Generative

A square screen with concentric colored patterns and three small circular displays mounted together on a wall.

GENERATIVE ART

Generative

A tall woven textile filled with nested pixel-like geometric motifs.

inefficient_foreground

Generative

Black and gray angular forms radiate around a small turquoise center, crossed by gold horizontal and vertical details.

existential_space_probe

Generative / Artificial intelligence

Dark curling loops overlap pale circular forms beneath a soft green glow, with pink and gray surrounding them.

disobediant_strawberry

Generative / Artificial intelligence

A bright red-orange ring surrounds a pale central circle within a symmetrical field of translucent purple and gray circles.

spectroscopical_passageway

Generative / Artificial intelligence

A tall freestanding tower of brightly colored interlocking forms stands on a white platform.

Permanent Temporary

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A wall-mounted assemblage combines green roof shingles, two metal grab bars, handcuffs and a glowing light.

Ceci N’est Pas Une Barriere

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A black split-flap clock mounted on a can of Dinty Moore beef stew.

Time to Eat (Black Forest Steak Red #9)

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A black ceramic ring with an orange inner opening on a clear stand against a blue wall.

Museum Donut: Ode to the Void

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A black four-footed cane supports a circular arrangement of keys and metallic ribbons.

Keys to Lasting Youth

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A hollow cork form densely covered with metal pins on a circular white base.

Resonance of Tranquil Eternities

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A tall multi-tiered trophy topped with medals balances on a tower of wooden game blocks.

Precarious Hierarchies and the Paradox of Participation

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A white door covered with hundreds of projecting spring doorstops stands open in the gallery.

Stop, Door Stop

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture / Interaction

A Bunch of Items That Are on Display in a Store, a square oil painting of dense shelves of containers and printed objects.

A Bunch of Items That Are on Display in a Store

Artificial intelligence / Generative

A collage of brightly colored paper fragments surrounds a paperback book cover.

My Kid Could Do That!

Artificial intelligence

Two elongated figures stand across a small table in a yellow room with blue doorways and scattered furniture parts.

Billy and Malm Have an Argument About Putting Together a Lack Side Table and Decide to Get a Divorce

Artificial intelligence

A square painting shows concentric white and orange circles above a semicircle of dark round forms.

The Solar Dance

Artificial intelligence

Full framed portrait of a figure with a yellow perforated face, blue hat, and orange patterned suit.

Dreams of the Cheese-Faced Gentleman

Artificial intelligence

Full framed painting of five formally dressed fox-headed figures standing in a forest.

The Council of Foxes

Artificial intelligence

A gold-framed painting depicts figures seated around a dining table in front of an orange-lit window.

The Dining Window

Artificial intelligence

Three-quarter view of the dark bronze bust with a tall blade-like projection beside a window.

The Sentinel of Memory in the Valley of Vulnerability

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

A painting of a face with two large ears, a nose, teeth and a spotted tongue, photographed straight on.

The Resonance of Silence

Artificial intelligence

Full view of a surreal painting of enlarged eyes, ears, and intertwined organic forms.

The Vortex of Perception

Artificial intelligence

An ear-like white marble sculpture photographed against a dark background.

Ear We Go Again

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

Dozens of small instant photographs pinned to a cork board behind a clear cover on a purple wall.

AI Polaroids

Artificial intelligence

A pen plotting machine sits over a brightly colored drawing on a white table-like plinth.

AI Plotting Robot

Artificial intelligence / Robotics

Nine square panels of repeated manufactured objects hang in a three-by-three grid on a white wall.

Unraveling Mechanism

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

Long connected chains of brass hinges arranged in winding paths on a white plinth.

Unity in Motion

Artificial intelligence / Sculpture

Large yellow, pink, red, and blue graffiti forms fill a green freestanding gallery wall.

SK7

Artificial intelligence

Full view of a tall turquoise painting densely filled with colorful mechanical forms.

Technicolor Dream Circuit

Artificial intelligence / Generative

Full view of a cream-colored canvas with a stepped cluster of brightly colored mechanical forms.

Cosmic Candyland Carnival

Artificial intelligence / Generative

Full view of a vertical painting of brightly colored interlocking mechanical and organic forms.

The Radiant Rebirth of Reality

Artificial intelligence / Generative

Three woven tapestries showing a skull, an imaginary landscape, and a cloaked figure hang side by side on a turquoise wall.

The Ethereal Passage

Artificial intelligence / Generative

A transparent rectangular toy containing blue liquid and two floating penguins is mounted above a motorized mechanism.

Penguin Liquid Wave Paperweight

Robotics

A small wooden bird with an orange tuft sits on a tall, slender rod above a wall-mounted motorized mechanism.

Woodpecker Toy

Robotics