Alex Verhaest, Constant Dullaart, Johanna Reich, Patrick Tresset and Roel Heremans show works on authorship and agency when machines take part in making art, in an exhibition that is also a research study on how visitors perceive AI and digital art.
Johanna Reich's series Aevorìs | Dancing Islands combines acrylic paint and ink on canvas with poems lit by LEDs. An AI translates colours and forms into verse, in a language the artist develops together with it. Johanna Reich has worked with language models and neural networks since 2018.
Patrick Tresset presents a new work. He began building his first robotic drawing system in 2009, and in Human Study #1 robots named Paul sketch portraits of visitors with a pen held by a robotic arm. His recent installations cast AI agents as performers. In Skediama, which premiered at the Grenier à Sel during the Avignon Festival Off in July 2026, a drawing machine and a visitor invent a story together while a pen plotter draws it on a long paper scroll.
Alex Verhaest wrote the scripts for her interactive works The Archivist (2022) and Ad Hominem (2022) together with GPT-3.
Roel Heremans builds immersive installations with sound and neurotechnology, among them The NeuroRight Arcades, experienced through brain-computer interface headphones.
Constant Dullaart's Synthesised Image Net paintings refer to ImageNet, the image dataset used to train recognition systems.
Curated by Michiel Willems, the exhibition comes with a research study.
Visitors can take part by experiencing the works and filling in questionnaires; KU Leuven asks for about an hour. Entry is free, on selected days from 1 to 6 pm.
