Agil Abdullayev, Memo Akten, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Harold Cohen, Brendan Dawes, Jake Elwes, Lilly Fenichel, Jann Haworth, Kalliopi Lemos, and Recycle Group open Gazelli Art House's first New York space, spanning Harold Cohen's AARON, one of the earliest AI drawing programs, Memo Akten's data-driven machine learning installations, and Jake Elwes's deepfake and generative AI performance work alongside painting, sculpture, and mixed media.
Gazelli Art House opens its third permanent space, and first in the United States, with Put the Kettle On, an inaugural New York exhibition timed to coincide with the gallery's presentation at The Armory Show 2026 during Armory Week.
Harold Cohen represents the show's historical anchor. Working at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence since the late 1960s, he created AARON, one of the earliest AI programs designed to produce paintings and drawings autonomously, developed during two years at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Memo Akten, who holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from Goldsmiths University of London, builds algorithmic and data-driven moving images, sounds, and large-scale responsive installations, drawing on more than a decade of work with AI and internet-scraped data.
Jake Elwes works to queer artificial intelligence with drag performers, producing deepfake performance in The Zizi Project and glitched algorithmic work in Machine Learning Porn.
Brendan Dawes builds generative systems he describes as making "a thing which makes a thing." In 2024 he collaborated with filmmaker Gary Hustwit on Eno, a generative documentary about musician Brian Eno with 52 quintillion possible versions, later shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The exhibition also brings in Agil Abdullayev, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, Lilly Fenichel, Jann Haworth, Kalliopi Lemos, and Recycle Group, spanning painting, sculpture, and virtual reality installation across generations of the gallery's international programme.
