Is AI art real art?
How the question of whether AI is art inspired my first art expo.
Is AI art real art?
It's a question that's been haunting me ever since Midjourney changed my life in 2022.
Why? Because thanks to this tool I finally managed to visualize ideas that have been in my head for over a decade.
At the same time, I watched the same technology reshape the creative industry around us, fundamentally changing how we think about art and creativity.
“Dreaming with the Machine”—my first Starhaven expo, in collaboration with Belgian impressionists and good friends Peter Wellens & Charlotte De Baere—emerges from this tension.
But more than just an exhibition, it's an exploration of how AI is transforming the very nature of creativity itself.
Not by competing with the deeply human art forms used by Peter and Charlotte, but by introducing something new.
Over the past two and a half years, I’ve realized AI isn’t simply another medium—it's a gateway to a new creative canvas called the Latent Space—a mathematical realm where everything that has ever inspired or moved me can be recombined into new ideas, shapes and mediums.
But AI's greatest power lies in what I call The Shortening of the Way—its ability to collapse the distance between imagination and reality, between different artistic mediums, between creator and observer.
This isn't about replacing a painter's sacred process in their atelier. Rather, it's about discovering something novel: a world where the artwork isn't an endpoint but a beginning—exactly what this exhibition explores—how my Heralds of Starhaven born from the Latent Space inspired Peter and Charlotte's paintings
I'm grateful that AI has helped me find both my creative voice and the perfect collaborators in Peter and Charlotte.
Together, we've turned digital dreams into something truly special.
We hope 'Dreaming with the Machine' inspires others to see what's possible when human and machine creativity dream together.
"As we teach A.I. to dream, infusing them with our emotions and aspirations, they become mirrors, reflecting back amplified visions of our own potential."