Letters from Nature and the Gen AI on the Fly Competition exhibition
17 October 2024 16:00 till 08 January 2025 12:00 - Location: TU Delft Library Main Hall | Add to my calendar
** Opening Reception: 17 October in the Main Hall **
The exhibition explores generation (with AI) and the speed of generation for the competition of students and staff, who were notified at the beginning of the semester and had less than a month to submit work for the competition. The exhibition also reveals some preliminary data about Gen AI / LLM usage on campus.
The TU Delft Library examines generation (with AI) through the lens of it first pair of art tech collaborators:
Jeroen van der Most & Peter van der Putten, with their environmentally provocative artwork Letters from Nature, which uses Gen AI to pen climate change activist letters from the POV of the planet.
This artwork serves as a professional example of incorporating Gen AI, more specifically LLM output, for creative and positive impact and purpose. Hear more from the artists about AI & Creativity:
Video credits: Artificia
Peter van der Putten (left) and Jeroen van der Most (right).
About the artists
Dutch artist Jeroen van der Most, or shorthand Most, has created art with data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence for over 10 years. His current focus is on reaching a next level in AI-based creation in which the boundaries of technology, humans and nature have faded. To help shape the societies of tomorrow. He is a frequent international keynote speaker about his art and vision on technology.
Peter van der Putten is an assistant professor in AI and Creative Research at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is interested in how intelligence can evolve through machine learning--or going even beyond Artificial Intelligence to Artificial X by studying other human qualities (such as creativity, emotions, or even topics such as religion) through an artificial creature lens to see what the boundaries are, and to speculate on possible futures. Next to his academic position he is also a director for decisioning and AI solutions at Pegasystems.