Gen Ai on the Fly Competition

News - 27 August 2024

Copyright, Bias, Singularity...Generative Ai has sparked heated debates, especially in academic circles. Yet, its rapid speed and creative potential are widely embraced.   

At TU Delft, we welcome this generative spirit and the opportunities it brings to our community as we welcome the narratives of Gen Ai, the generation of generative Ai. Join the TU Delft Library in revealing and celebrating the advantages Ai has brought to academics and culture with a juried exhibition of the best of Gen Ai on campus.   

Competition details: 

Show off your technical chops and creativity by submitting your work, co-created with Generative Ai, for an upcoming TU Delft Library exhibition in the categories:  

  • Visual Art  
  • Music  
  • Scholarship (academic assignments).  

This is an opportunity to not only exhibit your work but also to compete for ‘Best in Show’ in each category (€100,-) with an additional Grand Prize of €300,-. Entries will be reviewed by an internal committee and Gen AI artists and researchers, Jeroen van der Most & Peter van Puten, will select prize winners.  

Submission Guidelines: 

  • Open to all students and staff of TU Delft.  
  • Submissions should be works co-created with Generative Ai. 
  • All creative and technical disciplines are welcome. 

Submission Deadline: 23rd of September 

Exhibition Opening and Prizes: 17th of October  

Location: TU Delft Library, Main hall 

Gen Ai on the Fly Exhibition & programme  

17 October – 9 Januari 

The Gen Ai on the Fly exhibition will showcase the TU Delft campus community submissions and the winners of the competition as well as explore generation (both with and without Ai) and its speed through the works of two pairs of art tech collaborators:  

  • Jeroen van der Most & Peter van Puten will present their environmentally provocative piece, Letters from Nature, which uses Gen Ai to pen climate change activist letters from the POV of the planet.
  • (28 Nov) Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer will showcase their on-the-fly (literally) generated flocking behaviours in their video installations, People on the Fly and Portrait on the Fly.    

The Gen Ai on the Fly programme events will also highlight the positive societal impacts of Generative AI and the speed of advancement, while not forgetting to expose opportunities to engineer and apply all technology critically.