EXPANDED.ART presents the international group exhibition REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024: AI IN CONTEXT #2 at Heilig Geist, a former church near the Zeche Zollverein, as part of the AI Biennale in Essen. The exhibition is curated by Anika Meier, who has invited more than 50 international artists, as well as platforms and galleries from LA to Paris to Shanghai, such as Fellowship, Photo Edition Berlin and Objkt.com, to reflect on the near future, in which humans and machines will come closer together.
While artists like Herbert W. Franke had to prove in the 1950s that art could be created with machines, machines now create art: such as the decentralized autonomous artist Botto, the painting and drawing robot Ai-Da, and the Chinese-Canadian artist Sougwen Chung collaborating with robots.
Since the 1960s, with the introduction of the term Generative Photography by Gottfried Jäger, artists have not only made photos with a camera but have also generated images. The Generative Photography of that time represented a non-representational position of photography, while Post-Photography today—AI-generated images—creates alternative histories that challenge our belief in images, as Philip Toledano does with ANOTHER AMERICA.