Sixty Years of Creativity: Artificial Intelligence

An exhibition on artificial intelligence is being held at the Beijing Contemporary Art Museum, attracting many participants. The exhibition continues the museum's research and focus on the issue of "media." "Sixty Years of Creativity: Artificial Intelligence" is a large-scale international exhibition focusing on artificial intelligence, robots, computer art, and creativity, with the development of new technologies and their impact on art as the starting point, aiming to explore the boundary between human and machine creativity. The exhibition observes artificial intelligence and digital art creation from a global perspective, featuring works by 30 international artists/groups from around the world, divided into three independent narrative units: "Contemporary," "History," and "Education." The "Contemporary" unit showcases large-scale projections and installations of robot art, interactive artificial intelligence, computer vision art, and generative art by renowned international and Chinese artists, representing the forefront of contemporary artificial intelligence-driven art practice and exploring the future world that is within reach of all of us. The "History" unit features works by pioneers in the field of digital art from the 1950s to the late 1990s, including John Whitney Sr., the "father of computer graphics," Vera Molnar, the "mother of computer art," Benoit Mandelbrot, the "father of fractal geometry," Harold Cohen, the "inventor of the earliest robot painter AARON," and Craig Reynolds, the "pioneering contributor to 3D animation in film." They have ignited the spark of modern technology and art over the past 60 years. The "Education" unit provides introductory information on the history and technology of the field for audiences who are new to mathematical art, providing knowledge reserves for fellow travelers in the pre-AI era, while also providing rich content for audiences with existing knowledge in related fields by focusing on generative art and algorithmic design. While presenting the latest developments in AI art, the exhibition also connects a micro-history of the evolution of digital art from the perspective of media archaeology. By tracing the journey and representative works of digital art pioneers from different eras, combined with the immersive experience of contemporary art, the exhibition offers a new perspective on the process and future of human development and evolution.