Aargauer Kunsthaus presents Artificial Creativity, a group exhibition on artificial intelligence as a creative medium featuring Alfatih, Niculin Barandun, Botto, Terence Broad, Onome Ekeh, Emanuel Gollob, Tobias Gutmann, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Hochschuh & Donovan, Esther Hunziker, Simone C. Niquille, Theresa Reiwer, Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg, and Robi Voigt, presented in cooperation with the House of Electronic Arts (HEK).
The exhibition treats the artistic process with AI as a negotiation between control and loss of control, bringing together works built with generative image and language models, curated by Dr Katharina Ammann with Florian Brand as assistant curator.
Three questions structure the visit: how AI becomes part of artistic processes, how AI-generated content changes perception of reality, and what changes when AI becomes tangible spatially, physically, and socially. Creativity here emerges from the interplay between people, data, technical systems, and the cultural definitions of what counts as creative.
The so-called hallucinations of AI, plausible but ungrounded continuations that appear when a system keeps processing without enough context or data, function throughout as artistically productive disruptions rather than simple errors.
AI itself has no intentions, understanding, or responsibility. The exhibition places those with the people and institutions that develop, deploy, exhibit, and evaluate these systems.
In a test lab in the Freiraum on the ground floor, visitors can experiment with image-generating AI tools themselves, and in a separate learning space, two chatbots help visitors sharpen their own position on AI between utopia and dystopia. An accompanying publication brings together texts by computer scientist Dr Eva Cetinić (University of Zurich) on generative AI and latent space, and by philosopher Dr Julia Langkau (University of Geneva) on the relationship between human and artificial creativity, alongside questions posed by Beni Bischof and responses from the participating artists.
