{"id":12905,"date":"2026-11-11T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:01:18","slug":"bucharest-exhibition-explores-relationship-between-art-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12905","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest exhibition explores relationship between art and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

BrutAIsm<\/em>, an exhibition exploring the possibilities and limitations of new technologies and how they can change the way audiences relate to images, artistic creation, and art heritage, will open at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) on November 16.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is the result of an artistic research initiative by Andrei Iv\u0103nescu, exploring the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and art.<\/p>\n

The project starts with a seemingly simple question: can artificial intelligence make art? Rather than seeking to provide a definitive answer, the exhibition shifts the discussion in another direction: what is the distinctive aesthetic of statistically generated images, and what forms of expression might emerge when AI mechanisms are explored beyond simply imitating existing images?<\/p>\n

The exhibition presents a series of experiments exploring these relationships through direct engagement with the collections of the MNAR.<\/p>\n

One of the experiments, titled You Are What You Eat, draws on 106 self-portraits from the MNAR collection, which were used to train a generative model. The model has \u201cconsumed\u201d not only the images but also the artists’ biographies, creating an entirely new way of engaging with the works and artists in the collection. The installation invites visitors to discover the 84 painters whose works formed the training material, learn about their lives and the historical contexts in which they created, and explore the connections between them. The experiment thus transforms the museum collection into a space for exploring visual memory and the ways in which artificial intelligence processes and reconfigures artistic information.<\/p>\n

Another highlight of the exhibition is the Research Table, bringing together the manifesto and texts documenting the project’s experiments. Presented as textile scrolls unfurled across the table, the materials are available for visitors to read in full, offering insight into the theoretical foundations and research process behind the project.<\/p>\n

The BrutAIsm Manifesto, written by Andrei Iv\u0103nescu in 2026, reflects on the possibility of a new artistic medium emerging from generative artificial intelligence:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are talking about an artistic medium that has not yet been born. Generative AI, in its current form, does not \u2018make art,\u2019 but it may contain the raw material for an art form that has never existed before. This manifesto attempts to bridge the unpredictably vast distance between these two statements. Can AI make art? The answer we can stand by is \u2018not like this,\u2019 and the more interesting question is: how?,\u201d Andrei Iv\u0103nescu explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as photography broke away from painting through the snapshot, and cinema from theatre through editing, the artistic manipulation of AI needs to move beyond its current stage of imitation of the visual traditions that came before it. BrutAIsm proposes that we honestly expose the materiality of this medium, its flaws and processes, just as architectural Brutalism once highlighted the properties of materials and the natural harmony of volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition includes works by Sebastian Com\u0103nescu and Andrei Iv\u0103nescu.<\/p>\n

It will be on view through December 16.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BrutAIsm, an exhibition exploring the possibilities and limitations of new technologies and how they can change the way audiences relate to images, artistic creation, and art heritage, will open at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) on November 16. The exhibition is the result of an artistic research initiative by Andrei Iv\u0103nescu, exploring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}