The Art of AI: A to Z

A is for AI and the publication of the eye-opening annual Artificial Intelligence Index Report by Stanford University.

A round-up of the year in digital art, from AI artists to NFT milestones.

A. Stanford University published the Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023.

B. Autonomous AI artist Botto celebrated three years with a show and sale at Sotheby’s, New York.

C. Visitors to Judy Chicago’s Serpentine London show Revelations were invited to mint a digital participation token.

D. Basel launched the Digital Art Mile festival in June.

E. Efsun Erkiliç co-founded Refik Anadol Studio and Dataland, Los Angeles, the first museum for AI art.

F. Urs Fischer invited owners of his Chaos video sculptures to have them “fused” into new animations.

G. Artist Gabriel Massan’s computer-game-based Third World began a global voyage in his native Brazil.

H. Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s Infinite Images was a highlight at Fellowship’s Paris Photo stand.

I. Boris Labbé’s VR work Ito Meikyū won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

J. Jason Bruges’s giant reimagined digital Tiffany diamond dazzled shoppers at Selfridges, London.

K. Meiro Koizumi’s Altars of Prometheus addressed artificial AI as a path to dystopia during Art Week Tokyo.

L. Las Vegas is home to the giant immersive venue Sphere, with plans for another in Abu Dhabi.

M. The Museum of the Moving Image in New York offered visitors free fragments of digital art.

N. Attitudes to the NFT (non-fungible token) market matured, and Taschen published Robert Alice’s On NFTs.

O. Standout digital art collectors 10F1 backed Refik Anadol, Beeple, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.

P. Parsons & Charlesworth design studio won the Futures Award at the 13th annual Lumen Prize for digital art.

Q. Kevin McCoy minted his Quantum (2014), widely regarded as the first NFT, a decade ago.

R. Refik Anadol sought to demystify AI in his one-man Serpentine show Echoes of the Earth.

S. Serpentine’s Arts Technologies published Future Art Ecosystems 4, its report on Art x Public AI.

T. teamLab Borderless is a 7,000 sq. m interactive and immersive art museum in Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills.

U. The UK’s Museum Data Service was launched with backing from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Leicester University.

V. Richard Vigniel (RVig) won the 2024 ABS Digital Art Prize.

W. John Akomfrah’s haunting video piece Becoming Wind (2023) featured at the LG OLED Lounge at Frieze London.

X. X-ray spectroscopy was used by winners of the $1m Vesuvius Challenge to decode ancient Roman scrolls.

Y. Video from 14 years of the Doha Film Institute featured in Your Ghosts Are Mine at Palazzo Franchetti, Venice.

Z. Niklas Bildstein Zaar, of sub studio, worked with Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst on the arresting design of their AI work The Call at Serpentine Galleries.

Community Curation: Rodell Warner, Ceren Su Çelik and Anna Malina were the three artists selected to be shown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.