ON AI and artistry
Ongoing projects and research
What is the role of the human artist when machines can generate seemingly artistic outputs? This is a theme I’ve been exploring both practically and theoretically since generative AI’s public breakthrough in 2022.
My practical research include Artificial Intern and Alter Ego, in which I’ve experimented with different ways of using AI-tools with the goal of strengthening my design skills, as well as questioning the “smoothing out” of the often necessarily dynamic and unpredictable creative process.
Latent / Liminal
Latent / Liminal is an ongoing collaboration with researcher and curator Laura Herman. We are interested in questions of creativity, authorship and context around the topic of art and AI. .
We approach it through workshops, curating and conversation, setting raw machine output against work shaped by human artists. The first public outcome was the workshop Exploring the Latent Space, at Media Evolution in Malmö in May 2026. Live prompting and open debate let participants test where machine output ends and an artistic work begins, while exposing the biases and limits of AI.
We are now planning an exhibition as the next step: an interactive “latent space gallery” of AI-generated images alongside five to six immersive “liminal spaces” created by artists from different fields. This will be held at Demeter Creative Research Center in Copenhagen.
Teaching
I regularly teach and have lectured at Media Evolution, Beckmans Design School several regional libraries, and at Form/ Designcenter, to name a few.
For me, it’s important to keep a critical and nuanced perspective on this topic. Generative AI is largely developed by a handful of big corporations that hold a lot of power over the field. The sources of the training data are often murky and AI still holds a lot of bias in the way it represents the human experience. It’s not a neutral tool.
Video from the seminar Redefining work in the age of AI, at Media Evolution in 2026
PS. I have an upcoming exhibitions on the subject, at Tomelilla Konsthall in September 2027, together with artist and film maker Freja Andersson.