What is the relationship between art and artificial intelligence (AI)? Can AI become a tool for the contemporary artist? Does AI look at a painting the same way we do? GLUON and BOZAR Lab brought together AI expert Luc Steels (founder Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, VUB) and world-renowned Belgian painter Luc Tuymans to investigate these questions, in the form of a “scientist in residency” programme (2019-2021). The exhibition SECRETS presents this ongoing research and collaboration between Steels and Tuymans. Through projections of Tuymans’ work, you will get a better understanding of his creative process and visualise the adaptations that occur when transposing a photograph into a painting. Luc Steels and his team at Studio Stelluti have been able to analyse the paintings that were on show during Tuymans’ prestigious 2019 La Pelle exhibition at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi. They used several AI techniques to dive into the artist’s creativity process, and ultimately support Tuymans and other artists in their visual research or artistic decisions.
Secrets
Artificial intelligence and Luc Tuymans
BOZAR, Brussels
Exhibitions
Image Secrets, Luc Tuymans photo Paul Hester, Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp / Algorithmic images and semantic network by Luc Steels, Studio Stelluti Secrets, Luc Tuymans photo Paul Hester, Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
This project was co-funded in 2019 and 2020 by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under S+T+ARTS umbrella ; European Artificial Intelligence Lab; Vlaamse Overheid
Co-commissioned by BOZAR and GLUON