Ayoung Kim’s AI-enabled poster exposes a paradox: galleries advertise works that critique AI
A poster for the National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial reproduces an image from Ayoung Kim’s multi-channel video Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse (2024), a work created using generative AI alongside CGI, game engines and live action; Reddit commenters disparaged the poster for using AI without distinguishing artists who use AI from AI replacing artists.
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AI-assisted summary of the linked sourceA poster for the National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial reproduces an image from Ayoung Kim’s multi-channel video Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse (2024), a work created using generative AI alongside CGI, game engines and live action; Reddit commenters disparaged the poster for using AI without distinguishing artists who use AI from AI replacing artists. The Conversation’s author Sara Oscar frames a broader paradox: generative AI both saturates visual culture with what she calls “AI slop” and offers an experimental site where artists can reveal the technology’s limits and impacts on labour and seeing.