Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)

2023

Noteworthy AI Work

Artwork

Mario Klingemann's A.I.C.C.A., the robotic critic-dog listed in this entry, which looks at an artwork and excretes a printed review as a paper receipt.
Mario Klingemann's A.I.C.C.A., the robotic critic-dog listed in this entry, which looks at an artwork and excretes a printed review as a paper receipt. A.I.C.C.A. (Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine) by Mario Klingemann. Courtesy of Colección SOLO and Onkaos.

With the number of new entrants, like minting platforms and artists, sifting through the sheer load of work from 2023 was not easy either. Work we think of highly today may change and significant work will surely be missing. As it’s so recent, along with the coded work, this moment is very much a work in progress and will be in flux. Yet here are standouts: I’M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44 by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst A.I.C.C.A by Mario Klingemann (The artist’s robotic dog art critic that defecates a critical response to an artwork as a receipt) at Onkaos Gallery Perception Engines by Tom White (Originally from 2018) self-contained 003 by Entangled Others Succulentness by Ganbrood Dominoes in Fluxus Chains by Ivona Tau Waves 2.0 by Memo Akten You’ve Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS by Trevor Paglen The Black Tulip by Anna Ridler

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Anna Ridler, Ganbrood, Holly Herndon, Ivona Tau, Mario Klingemann, Mat Dryhurst, Memo Akten, Tom White, Trevor Paglen

Movements

artificial intelligence, Machine Learning Art, generative AI

Filed under

Ideas
ai art, art criticism
Technologies
robotics
People
Anna Ridler, Ganbrood, Holly Herndon, Ivona Tau, Mario Klingemann, Mat Dryhurst, Memo Akten, Tom White, Trevor Paglen
Works
A.I.C.C.A, Dominoes in Fluxus Chains, I'M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44, Perception Engines, self-contained 003, Succulentness, The Black Tulip, Waves 2.0, You've Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS
Exhibitions
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
Organisations
Entangled Others, Fluxus, Onkaos

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