If you make things, you know that having the right tool for the job improves the outcome. If you want to create art that describes life in the 21st century, then software is a good tool.

To those still protesting the inclusion of AI, Generative, and NFT imagery into the world of fine art, you are now historically out of luck.

The creative gates once closed to most of us are opening, and we now have the opportunity to learn from our collective wisdom. Will we?

"This is not what I expected!" That was the comment I heard most often when I asked gallery visitors what they thought of the AI and generative images featured in "Art in the Age of AI: Evolution or End?"

A large weight was taken off of my shoulders when I realized that the gatekeepers of the entertainment industry would no longer be able to hold me back. - M. Tolin

Mixing tribal gestures with organic symbols and visual ciphers, Jari Anttonen’s AI motifs filter through layers of meaning and distill into a kind of techno mythology.

Tech-based artists are merging their creative right brains with their analytical left brains. Does this holistic approach change art for art's sake into art as a visual prompt? I asked Alex Dodge.

Phase change is when matter changes from one state into another (water to ice). AI is phase changing visual art into a hybrid form of uncanny illusions. Aude Rech explains what that means to her.

Amy Ellingson's analog/digital art illuminates the merged experience of living betwixt and between. With her ideas anchored in history, she's able to leap into the unknown.

Jiabao Li's philosophy of creativity is turning breath into food, mice into mentors, empathy into action, and curiosity into knowledge. Is engineered art the future?

Prompted to life, these AI artists are not alive, but they draw their creative inspiration from humans, and they hope we'll find their work relevant.