AI and the Anvil

An online presentation of AI-generated sculptural designs realized in metal with robotic fabrication.

Year: 2025
Venue: NVIDIA AI Art Gallery, online
Exhibition: Group
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An orange KUKA robot arm holds a forming tool above a clamped aluminum sheet bearing a cross-shaped radial relief at Machina Labs. — Disruptive Reflexivity in the Flux of Becoming — robotic forming at Machina Labs. Image courtesy NVIDIA AI Art Gallery.

NVIDIA’s AI Art Gallery presented Disruptive Reflexivity in the Flux of Becoming under the title AI and the Anvil, with photographs and a process video from Machina Labs. Reben works with AI to turn language into digital instructions for sculpture, and Machina Labs’ robotic forming cell shapes the aluminum sheet, with two robots counterbalancing each other to apply the force the metal requires.

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Gallery

Close view of the cross-shaped aluminum relief with radial ridges on the forming machine, reflecting an orange robot. — Disruptive Reflexivity in the Flux of Becoming — the formed aluminum sheet at Machina Labs. Image courtesy NVIDIA AI Art Gallery.

Two renderings of a flower-like relief design: a rainbow stress map on the left and a green draft-angle analysis on the right. — AI-generated sculptural design with forming analysis, from the Machina Labs process. Image courtesy NVIDIA AI Art Gallery.

Works and series

A large rectangular aluminum panel bulges into a radial flower-like relief, with densely rippled metal surfaces.

Disruptive Reflexivity in the Flux of Becoming

2024

Artificial intelligence / Robotics / Generative / Sculpture