Alba Corral
La Ràpita, Spain
Artist’s Statement:
"My intention is the same as that of a painter who paints a picture: aesthetic contemplation…I am in contact with nature from the moment I get up until I go to sleep…It has taught me to observe. The more time, the more nuances.”
Curator’s Statement:
Generative Art turns math, data, and code into imagery guided by the artist’s vision.
Alba Corral vision is influenced by organic events like tides, bird flights, swimming fish, changing landscapes, and objects like shells, stars, rocks, and so on. The imagery she generates for her live performances comes from the algorithms that create and sustain life. Her art is a conceptual mediations on the beauty and symbolism of form, its underlying functions.
CV Highlights:
Alba G. Corral is an award-winning artist and creative technologist based in Spain.
She is known for her live audio-visual performances where she integrates real-time coding and drawing in collaboration with musicians including Jon Hopkins, Odil Bright, Fibla, Juan de la Rubia, and Stendhal Syndrome.
Her work has been exhibited at The.NewArt (collection), Future Everything, the New Realities exhibition by Alpha-ville, Sonar, Primavera Sound, LEV, (S)Edition, and Generative Art Project.
Belowsubconscious (Dio Aird)
Scotland, UK
Artist’s Statement:
“Using the alias Belowsubconscious, my practice is focused on the exploration of synthetic realities through the prism of AI tools.”
Curator’s Statement:
Dio’s campy, darkly humorous images depict our mixed response to big tech. Our anxieties about machine dependence conflict with our aspirations for a perfect tech-future, which in turn conflict with our essential need for in-person interactions and direct contact with nature. The medium of AI is uniquely suited to interpret the intersection of humans and technology because it brings the stark contrast between the artificial and the animal into focus.
CV Highlights:
After working with traditional mediums for more than ten years, Dio incorporated AI tools into her practice in January of 2023. It is now her primary means of expression.
Her AI films and images have been exhibited in Seoul, New York City, Miami, Tallinn, and now Austin.
ESSTRO9 (E9)
Mexico City
Artist’s Statement:
“In a series of abstract digital landscapes, I program structures that seem to be constructing and/or destroying. Connecting without knowing what is forming creates in the viewer an intrigue, like the received messages in dreams.”
Curator’s Statement:
E9’s video narratives explore transitional phases that exist between life and death, sentience and simulation. To explore our relationship with the intangible and the physical, his latest videos imagine a rehem where consciousness is materialized through devices. To further engage with his audiences, E9 invites viewers to curate printable stills from his videos; acknowledging their creative impute by featuring their names in the title.
CV Highlights:
The Wrong Digital Art Biennale/ UNCLOUD International Fest Utrecht NL/ Mango TV YOUTH2020 - Hunan, China / DA Z - International Festival of Digital Art -Zurich 2020/ Generative Art Project Gallery Austin,TX, USA/ KINOMURAL 2020, Wroclow - Poland / Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro y Arte Interactivo : IN-SONORA VII, Madrid, Spain / International Fest of Liberal Theatre, Amman, Jordan / International Festival of Contemporary and Experimental Theater, Cairo- Egypt / Contemporary Animation & Media Art Festival, Ukraine / SuperNova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, USA
James Pricer
Austin, Texas, USA
Artist’s Statement:
“I have spent my life creating innovations that disrupt stagnation. The decision to use data as an art medium continues that project.
Through all my various careers, including the current one as a data artist, I I describe data as being sentient. Another level of data sentience is what W.J.T. Mitchell talks about with images wanting something from the viewer. This “wanting” is part of what I try to bring out when creating a data portrait. I am trying to visualize for others the sentience I see and feel in the data.”
Curator’s Statement:
Pricer transforms his chosen data into visuals using generative software, effectively sketching and testing the subtle parameters, layers, and trajectories that serve his conceptual goals.
Once his algorithms are chosen and applied, the data takes charge of the animation, color choices, camera angles, perspectives, and more. The printed stills cut from his videos capture catalytic instances and stimulate curiosity about the actions that created them.
CV Highlights:
True Beauty Science + Art, Stedelijk Museum, Breda, The Netherlands / QS15 Global Conference and Expo Art Gallery, San Francisco / Resident artist – GP-write conference in NYC / Denver Digerati Supernova / Azetta Global Analytics Summit Copenhagen / DNA Selfies, Generative Art Project, Austin, TX / Digital Graffiti, Alyse Beach, Florida / The Cube Project, Minneapolis, MN / Erratum – Chromatic Pro festival in Montreal / and Commissioned Data Portraits
David Bennett
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Artist’s Statement:
“My intent is to present an accessible body of work that is appealing and entertaining to a wide-reaching audience. Playful exploration and discovery are my guiding principles, fueled by a lifelong fascination with the blend of art and technology.”
Curator’s Statement:
Bennett uses the symbolism of immediacy and impermanence to explore the relationships between abstract and figurative, chaos and pattern. Radiation is a video meditation on culture that offers you the doubly satisfying experience of recognizing and critiquing the radiating images. Running with Wires suggests individuals running through the wild terrain of contemporary life. The free flying wires suggest the challenges and opportunities of technology.
CV Highlights:
Denver Digerati Supernova, Denver, Co/ Blue Balls Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland/ Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach, Florida/ The GIFER: International GIF Art Festival, Turin, Italy / The Chroma Art Film Festival, Miami
Viktor Velikanov
St. Petersburg, Russia
Artist Statement:
“New. Something new. Throughout history artists have searched for something new, something to convey the spirit of their age. I see technology as a new tool that can create things never seen before. Every time I create a piece, I ask myself the same question. What does new look like?”
Curator’ Statement:
Schooled in both art and design, Viktor Velikanov’s dual sensibilities are expressed in his art-making process. He has organized his practice around visual parameters that allow adaptability yet give his work a distinct and recognizable look.
Using code to generate his spare geometry, his digital paintings evoke thoughts of daring, turbulence, innovation, adventure, risk, and existential awareness. New is something we all know, and his art welcomes the viewer, allowing them to consider the creative possibilities of technology.
CV Highlights:
Velikanov received his degree from Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. He co-created & co-founded the conferences Designprosmotr and Designtrend. About his company, Velikanov says, “We work to advance innovative design. Our conferences educate and inspire a wide cross-section of creatives, and they have become the most popular and the largest design conferences in Russia.” His video art is shown in group and solo exhibitions throughout Europe.
denial of service
Thessaloniki, Greece
Artist’s Statement:
“I only ever take projects which interest me utterly, immediately & emotionally. If the sonics click with me, the concept is already there in a split second.”
Curator’s Statement:
Generative art gives unconventional voices, like d.o.s. the chance to use the tools of tech to visualize human excess. Math is the foundation of his aggressive punk style and the specific formulas he uses carry narrative symbolism - if you know the science. Numbers become graphic characters, and the process itself becomes the composition. An early generative pioneer, d.o.s. allows us to see the underlying structure of all things as art.
CV Highlights:
d.o.s. is a musician and video producer. He creates his own art projects and has produced videos for underground bands as well as pop stars like David Bowie. He’s performed at festival, and art venues across Europe, and shown his video art at galleries in Athens, Berlin, London, and at Generative Art Project in Austin. Recognized as one of the early masters of generative art, d.o.s. taught and influenced others, including E9.
Jessica Jackson
Norfolk, Virginia, US
Artist’s Statement:
“I’m a 42-year-old artist, mother and professional. I use AI technology to create reflective works that delve into human emotions, personal experiences, and societal themes.”
Curator’s Statement:
Using AI to create images gave Jackson a means to express herself. She had the artistic talent needed to become a traditional analogue artist. Yet, it was AI that set her mind in motion because it freed her to wander beyond her innate limitations. By presenting her vision in various forms, she could address the complexity of her personality, her circumstances, and her emotions. We are all more complex than we appear, and for some AI can aid our expansion into the fullness of our potential.
CV Highlights:
Commissioned art: The Bokeh Group, Ostensible Wine, Midnight Motel, Shein X, PROMPT Magazine
Blumquist
Fürth, Germany
Artist’s Statement:
“I still remember that moment in January 2023 when I generated my very first AI image. Looking into the eyes of someone who didn’t exist, I felt this strange mix of awe and excitement. I’d just found a new way to bring my wildest ideas to life without limitations. Nearly a year in, the narrative threads in my work became more subtle, and I found myself “hunting” for impossible, mind-bending visuals. These images, in their own strange way, helped me to break free from the boundaries of reality and materiality.”
Curator’ Statement:
Art is a form of communication that begins with the artist deciding what to say. Because AI is so new, the medium is a part of the message. Blumquist’s art guides us into the uncanny valley he first encountered when he began working with AI. He allows us to share the sensations he feels when his imagination, filtered through vast AI banks of contemporary imagery, returns with curious hallucinations and insightful depictions of humanity at the dawn of the AI age.
CV Highlights from 2023-2024:
"AI Generated" 1, exhibition in Milan, Italy / Feature in Issue 2 of PROMPT Magazine / Admission to fellowship‘s daily.xyz program/ Solo exhibition at Kulturlokal Fürth via die fotoszene, Fürth, Germany / "La Imagen Latente", showcasing of several AI videos in a cinema in Monterrey, Mexico / Showcasing of Synthbiosis video at NFT Paris via Nox Gallery, Palais Ephémère, Paris, France/ Release of Odia‘s album EUTROPIA, cover by Blumquist /
