All We’d Ever Need Is One Another by Adam Basanta

This mixed-media AI installation autonomously generates images, embodying a self-sustaining “art factory,” an early example of work employing material, coded and AI-generative techniques. Utilizing two flatbed scanners facing each other, the installation employs a computer script to create random settings and initiate scanning.

Deep-learning algorithms then analyze the images and are “validated as art” if they match existing works by over 83%. These images were shared on social platforms and were occasionally printed live in the gallery. This work explores technological automation, object agency and the economics of art production, reflecting on the continuous, independent creation of cultural artifacts.