Breaking AI

Moderated by Renata Janiszewska.

Renata Janiszewska
Lions Head, Canada   

The elements of Janiszewska’s art are both computer-generated and decorated with digital paintings which are drawn by hand with a stylus on the screen of her device. These elements act as characters in the mise en scene made using multiple apps. There is layering, cutting out, blending, superimposition and doubling of material to produce still images or animated loops. Recursivity and chance play a part. She edits these like an early hip-hop artist: connecting the loops using simple mobile editing software. Janiszewska composes and records her own soundtracks.

The DIV quality of her working method frees her tremendously to express her emotions, as a good Techspressionist does. The apps allow her to complete and share work quickly, facilitating experimentation. Hybridization allows for multiple techniques to be used and the file travels through numerous formats in a trice. Some of her themes are bio­ degradation,altered states of perception, temporal erosion and feminism.

Her works are in both Canadian and international collections. Selected exhibitions at Kingsborough Art Museum, NY, Southampton Arts Centre, NY, Cotuit Centre for the Arts, MA, University of Wisconsin, Patchogue, NY and the Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA.

Systaime offers explosive mashups of Internet Aesthetics, where information, images and comments provide a frame of today’s Digital Pop culture. The artist remixes web images and uses an audiovisual spectacle to display the patterns that are dominating the Internet, its icons, its manifestations and its digital prosperity. We are the “lucky” spectators of what he chooses to present us.

Systaime is a French contemporary digital artist since 1999. Founder of French Trash Touch (1995) Founder of Systaime (1999) Founder of SPAMM (2011) He is a pioneer of net-art, digital art and glitch.

Ariel Baron-Robbins, an interdisciplinary artist and academic specializing in Digital Media and Drawing, teaches Animation at Florida International University as a Visiting Associate Teaching Professor. Holding an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of South Florida, she has over a decade of experience teaching Drawing and Digital Art in South Florida and has exhibited her artwork widely.
She is integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into her Intermediate Animation, Advanced Animation, and Story Development courses. She requires students to use GAN programs in the classroom for creating animations and to assist with conceptualization and research. She recorded live on X and for a podcast during her Intermediate/Advanced class in 2024 with artist and podcaster Whizpill, titled “Animation & AI: Skills & Tools of the Future Taught in Universities.”She has recently participated in a panel at FIU’s Ratcliffe Incubator Space, titled “Before and After,” where she discussed and demonstrated the impact of using Generative AI. Additionally, she was featured in a discussion with Stephanie Tripp from the University of Tampa, titled “Discussion with Curator, AI, NFTs, Art and the Metaverse,” held at Tempus Projects in Tampa, FL.

Michael Pierre Price works from his home studio in Phoenix, Arizona creating his digital art prints that are primarily inspired by the intersection of modern physics, neuroscience, and spirituality. He often uses mathematics, specialized software, and AI when he creates his abstract, algorithmic, and surrealist art.

Phoenix AZ USA