Exhibition
Media Art Category Finalist Showcase
Lesson
Tomoya Ishibashi, Kento Niikura (Japan)
The left monitor shows a famous painting; the middle monitor shows a description of that painting generated by an image description generator; and the right monitor shows an image from text-to-image generator based on the aforementioned description. Lesson presents a series of AI-interpreted processes, questioning subjectivity and contingency of artwork interpretation and the act of creation from a machine’s perspective.

Artist Biography
Tomoya Ishibashi: Graduated with an MS in Biology from Waseda University.
Kento Niikura: Graduated with an MS in Mathematics from Tokyo Institute of Technology.