Art Resources: Art, Technology & AI

The LG Guggenheim Award recognizes one artist annually for their groundbreaking achievements in technology-based art. The Award recipient for 2025 is the South Korean artist Ayoung Kim. Kim creates fantastical, meticulously crafted virtual environments using emerging technologies. She advocates for AI literacy and a deeper understanding of the boundary between humans and machines, reflecting her interest in particle science, quantum realities, and interconnected multiple worlds. Kim pushes the boundaries of art and technology, offering a vision of the future shaped by both.

Featuring over 1,900 artworks by more than 625 artists, the Collection Online presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection of approximately 8,000 artworks from the late 19th century through the present day. Browse by artist, date, medium, movement, and venue, or by special collections.

"Artificial intelligence is everywhere and part of our conversations about education, politics and social media. It's also a hot topic in the arts world as programs that generate art using AI are widely available to the public. But what goes into these programs, and the work that comes out, are heavily debated."

The journey of graphic design professors and their students into incorporating AI tools into their classes.

How Rabindranath Tagore's songs were used to teach computers to recognize the concept of Love.

Images Generations Tools: Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E2;
Audiovisul AI tools.

Resources compiled by the University Library at the UIUC, which may help you protect your creative output from being stored and used by generative AI tools.

The first-ever AI image to be granted copyright protection - check it out!

NYT article: "People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It?"
It highlights AI copyright concerns.

Japan considers making AI-generated Studio Ghibli images illegal.

This article explores the transformative integration of AI into visual arts education, examining its impact as both a tool and a medium. Reflecting on historical innovations like the camera, which redefined painting, this article delves into how AI reshapes educational techniques and creative processes in the arts. Provides activities for teachers of visual arts.

Fun activity - Try these artistic filters that transform your photos into paintings, cartoons, sketches, pop art, and more.

Experiments using the latest AI models.