A search for “AI art” may be a search for works, tools, history or criticism. This archive addresses art-historical questions: how artificial intelligence enters artistic production and display, how practitioners describe their work, and how positions on labour, permission and artistic value take shape.
View full image ↗Harold Cohen, AARON KCAT (2001), software screenshot reproduced on Whitney’s retrospective page. It illustrates the continuing AARON practice, not an image from 1969.
© Harold Cohen Trust / Whitney Museum of American Art
Source · AARON ↗Related cases & evidence
These cases provide material for comparison and verification; no single source substantiates every claim in the guide.
Boris Eldagsen / PSEUDOMNESIA award-refusal intervention ↗
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
View full image ↗Boris Eldagsen, PSEUDOMNESIA: The Electrician (2022), reproduced on the artist’s account of declining the 2023 photography award.
© Boris Eldagsen; artist’s website
Source · Sony World Photography Awards 2023: artist’s account ↗Christie’s / Augmented Intelligence and open letter ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗An illustrative image of Alexander Reben’s Untitled Robot Painting, published in Christie’s sale announcement on 7 February 2025.
Alexander Reben; image source: Christie’s
Source · Augmented Intelligence sale announcement ↗Zarya of the Dawn / Review of comic copyright scope ↗
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
View full image ↗Kristina’s Zarya of the Dawn. Reproduced in Chen Haohao’s 2023 commentary.
Rights retained by original creators; reproduction source: Chen Haohao’s 2023 commentary
Source · Disco and AI: Is the Movement Against AI a New Luddism? ↗Procreate / Statement against introducing generative AI ↗
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
View full image ↗An image of digital drawing from Procreate’s statement against introducing generative AI.
Procreate / Savage Interactive; rights retained by source
Source · Procreate’s position on AI ↗Connecticut provenance duties for large generative-AI providers take effect ↗
Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.
Read the case, chronology & documents ↗Original sources
Artist signatories of the open letter · EN
Read original source ↗United States Copyright Office · EN
Read original source ↗Connecticut General Assembly · EN
Read original source ↗This research guide is written by the archive. Its Chinese and English texts may include AI-assisted translations and may not yet have received independent human review. Check historical claims and rights information against the original-language sources.
Citation & methodology
This topic is a selection and reading path, not an exhaustive history. Cite the relevant record and original source for specific claims. To cite this guide, give its title, URL and access date.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. AI art: a guide to practice, authorship and controversy. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/topics/culture-governance/guides/ai-art-research
Methodology & citation ↗