Nxt Museum curated three artists to be displayed at the lobby of the World Summit AI Amsterdam. The selection of works highlights artists redefining what AI art can be, from photography and archival footage to neural networks, large language models, and a blend of human and non-human imaginaries.

Curated by Nxt, these artists form part of a growing body of selected works that the museum has carefully selected, expanding the exhibition space beyond the museum and towards new frontiers, curating artworks for different events and spaces. Unlike traditional museums, Nxt supports and encourages the exhibiting of art outside of the institution itself, making the art of the now accessible and present in different types of spaces. Commissioned by Prosus, these three artists were curated by our Arts and Culture team to present boundary-pushing artworks that use artificial intelligence and machine learning in innovative ways.

Ümüt Yildiz

With ‘Vorstellung’, ‘Qualia 1’, and ‘Qualia 2’, Ümüt Yildiz brings lived environments to the fore, using AI and neural networks to interact with spaces and insert his imagination into them. Bringing knowledge of the past into contact with technologies of the now, Yildiz creates journeys through neural networks that generate a surreal fusion of past and future.

Ümüt Yildiz’s work often revolves around the shifting of human environments. It combines photography, videography, and generative art through creative coding. His work often toes the line between the real and the fantastic, blurring the boundaries between the human, the non-human, and the post-human.

Jeroen van der Most

Jeroen van der Most uses AI as a tool for envisaging distant pasts and futures. His work often revolves around human experience and humanity’s involvement within the natural world. 

In his work ‘Bee’, van der Most explores the fusion of human and bee intelligence, using two large language models to illustrate imaginaries of a world in which human and insect worlds merge and blend. The artwork aims to highlight different forms of intelligence – not just the rational but also the emotional and the ethical. Using the artist’s background and vision of art and technology as input, as well as his concept of a bee’s imagined life, the artwork creates a stream of consciousness that blurs the line between the human and the non-human.

Pavo & Smit

Using a mix of digital methods and archival photography and videography, Pavo & Smit create landscapes that flow in and out of the real and the imagined, synthesising human dreams and desires.

Pavo & Smit is a dynamic artistic collaboration between Ayala Pavo and Smit (Klaas Hendrik Hantschel). It fuses diverse creative backgrounds and curiosity about the human condition in the digital age into dream-like journeys that redefine visual storytelling.

Find the artists’ works and more information on the artworks in the compilation below:

As part of our collaboration, Prosus is doing a full takeover of the museum on November 13. Find out more about this collaboration on our Case Study page.

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