AI in artistic practice is primarily used as a generative tool, with the practitioner cast in the role of prompter and refiner. Yet this can limit creative expression through constraints and biases inherent to underlying training data, and subscribes to an AI development trajectory of large-scale data extraction and energy consumption. We propose an alternative role for the artist using AI, by framing bias as an asset. If AI is always a mirror of its makers, can artists use it like one? We investigated how AI can support a reflexive practice, involving reflection on one’s judgements, belief systems and tendencies within one’s practice.
We developed a process of teaching an algorithm our subjective gaze, and having it gaze back at our own work. First we train an object-recognition model with a custom dataset related to our artistic fascinations and subjective labels. Then we let this subjective algorithm interpret an object portrait of our practices, with objects from our studio that embody our artistic fascinations, fears, desires. We first explored this process ourselves, and later in a 3-day workshop with artistic research students. We demonstrate how working with a self-trained algorithm organises productive moments of self-confrontation throughout the process. We conclude that AI, when used as a reflexive tool, can assist artists in understanding and developing their position in relation to a research topic, while preserving agency, authorship, and expression in creative work.
Vera van der Burg (NL) is a designer and researcher, currently working as a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology within the Designing Intelligence Lab. Her research and design work focuses on the use of AI in creative processes, exploring how AI can serve as a tool for self-reflection. Vera creates publications, organises workshops and lectures, and makes installations for exhibitions.
veravanderburg.nl
Gijs de Boer (NL) is an artistic researcher and educator. He combines a background in philosophy and design to study how aesthetics and materiality could contribute to more relational ways of being. He makes visual works, writes essays, makes websites, and gives workshops. Gijs teaches artistic research and critique at the MA Critical Inquiry Lab at Design Academy Eindhoven and is part of Extra Practice.
supergijs.com
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