By Words by Steph Sekulovska
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 22:25:00
Our world is increasingly relying on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out our daily tasks, but what does it look like to use it for art? Ten leading contemporary artists – from Australia and around the world – seek to address this question in the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s major summer exhibition Data dreams: art and AI.
According to MCA curator Anna Davis, the landmark exhibition, part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025-2026, explores the complexity of the ways in which artists engage in conversations with the emerging world of AI through visual media such as film, images and sculpture.
“It was really about looking at what artists are doing right now and bringing together different perspectives and approaches to the use of artificial intelligence and looking at it as an object of criticism,” says Davis, who brought the exhibition to life along with co-curators Jane Devery and Tim Riley Walsh.
The exhibition room…
