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Pixelated Dreams

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In the co-creation exhibition “Pixelated Dreams”, you can see our own visitors’ work created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). To create an image, a person simply needs to formulate their fantasies and enter them as text into an app. The works on the walls are therefore not the sole creation of anyone, and only exist in this world for a limited period of time.


This unusual exhibition format undoubtedly raises many legitimate questions in the viewer’s mind, to which we are far from having definitive answers.
The AI revolution has been gathering momentum for some time now, and we can see that the computing influences of artificial intelligence are gaining ground in more and more fields. This is all the more unexpected in the field of art, where AI is an uninvited guest. The ‘creation’ of images was initially addressed by a machine-learning programme as an experiment. Initially, the AI was supposed to guess what was in the picture, rather than create the picture itself. Today, AI is able to generate realistic images from textual input alone, in less than a minute.


Our exhibition “Pixellated Dreams” is primarily designed to stimulate debate. Behind the seemingly simple and mildly engaging entertainment, a range of questions emerge – will the value of art diminish or increase as the artificial world evolves? Could artificial culture start to be more appealing to audiences than authored works? How much of our own skills, abilities and development potential are we sacrificing by letting artificial intelligence do more and more of the thinking and doing for us?

The exhibition was the result of a collaborative project with Kaubamaga, where we added an extra layer of artificial intelligence to the design of this season’s spring campaign. As a result, Iris Kivisalu’s photographs were used to create a work that encompasses both the real and artificial worlds – the first campaign and art exhibition in Estonia to be created with the help of artificial intelligence.
To coincide with the opening of the exhibition, we are also launching 3 AI-generated clothing sets that will be available for purchase during the exhibition. The artistic idea for the garments comes from the creative studio Ma+Ke Lab.


The exhibition’s technology partner is LEDZEP.