2025 Biennial: Art + AI
READING | ROOM
Welcome to the Biennial reading room, take this space as a respite from the deep thinking, or stay and read even deeper. You will find myriad entry points into the ever expanding theory, practice, and ramifications of artificial intelligence on industries beyond art. Flip through the books, or scan one of the QR codes for a reading list of articles, journals, and essays provided by our curators and exhibiting artists. See what they were reading to make the work you've just viewed. When you've caught your breath, take another look at the work, what do you think about it now?
To start, check out “A.I. Enters The Museum” from The New York Times
“NAEA Position Statemone on Use of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts Education”, by the National Art Education Association. Article available in the reading room.
“Imperfect Bodies, Self-Representation and AI as a Line of Flight. An Interview with Beth Frey”, by Davide Andreatta for Red Eye
“A Collaborator Who Understood My Vision”, by Min Chen for ArtNet
“Deep Learning: AI, Art History, and the Museum”, by Joan Kee and Michelle Huo for MoMA Magazine
“Traversing the Sayssiworld: In Conversation with Sam Balfus”, by Jagrati for Red Eye
Mel Rosen
“Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media”, by Trevor Paglen
“How to Read an AI Image”, by Eryk Salvaggio
“The Ghost Stays in the Picture, Part I: Archives Datasets, and Infrastructures”, by Eryk Salvaggio
“Mean Images”, by Hito Steyerl
“The Emergence of Autolography: The ‘Magical’ Invocation of Images from Text through AI”, by Chris Chesher”. Article available in the reading room.
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat, by Hito Steyerl. Book available in reading room.
Atlas of AI, by Kate Crawford. Book available in reading room.
Encounters, by D. W. Pasulka. Book available in the reading room.
Mark Burchick
Ways of Being, Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for Planetary Intelligence, by James Bridle
Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future, by Jen Thorp
“Data Gardens”, Issue 10 of Algorithms of Late-Capitalism.
“ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, by Ted Chiang for The New Yorker
“How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain”, by Stephen Ornes
Tara Youngborg
“Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media” by Lev Manovich and Emanuele Arielli. Article available in the reading room.
Stass Shpanin
Sol Kim
“A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition”, by Hito Steyerl
Tyanna Buie
Glitch Feminism and Black Meme, by Legacy Russel. Books available in reading room.
Race and Digital Media: An Introduction, by Lori Kido Lopez. Book available in reading room.
