Klingemann & Iwamoto: AI Art
Mario Klingemann and Kalen Iwamoto, hosted by Geoff Davis

Summary

Mario Klingemann and Kalen Iwamoto present their AI-informed artistic practices and reflect on curation, authorship and the problem of overproduction. Iwamoto explains The Writing on the Wall, a project in which she trains an AI on descriptions of her past works and then curates more than a hundred generated outputs into gallery labels for unseen future artworks, reversing the usual image-making role so the viewer supplies the mental image. She also demonstrates the Miniscriber, a conceptual poetry synth powered by a Raspberry Pi that applies cut-up, Oulipo-style and digital text techniques to let audiences remix language as if manipulating sound. Klingemann describes Botto, an autonomous decentralised AI artist governed by a DAO and cryptocurrency, which writes code, generates imagery, self-analyses and titles its own algorithmic works, recently shown in London; he also introduces Aika, a robotic gallery dog that detects art and prints LLM-generated critiques, using gentle satire to deflate the gravitas of art criticism. They discuss the controversies surrounding AI art, the need for a strong concept and rigorous selection, the instability of ownership, the value of critics, the pressure of the attention economy, mixed public reactions, and the impossibility of absorbing an overwhelming flood of machine-made information without trusted communities.

Generated by AI using kimi-k2.7-code (3^rd September 2026).