AI Art: From Technology to Culture

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The popularity of AI art has exploded over the past few years. From its beginnings with DeepDream in 2015, AI art has moved beyond technology circles into the public eye, shaping media art, contemporary art, and digital culture. The rise of prompting, multimodal AI and AI agents have expanded creative possibilities, while concerns over AI slop and copyright continue to fuel critical discourse. As generative AI tools become widely accessible, artists are exploring new forms of collaboration, aesthetics, and authorship. This talk will give an overview of how artists and technologists over the past decade have been using and thinking about AI, its creative potential, and societal impact.  

Luba Elliott is a curator and researcher specialising in AI art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the developments in AI art through talks and exhibitions at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including The Serpentine Galleries, V&A Museum, Feral File, ZKM Karlsruhe, Impakt Festival, NeurIPS and CVPR. Her projects include the ART-AI Festival in Leicester and the galleries thecvf-art.com,  aiartonline.com and computervisionart.com. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, she worked in start-ups, including the art collector database Larry’s List. She has a degree in Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge.