Creativity has long been understood as a distinctly human capacity, with visual art—painting, sculpture, and related forms—standing as one of its most enduring expressions. Across cultures and historical periods, art has been valued not only for its aesthetic qualities, but for its capacity to shape meaning, articulate identity, and enrich human experience. The Greek notion of Ψυχαγωγία (psychagogia), or “nurturing the soul,” captures this deeper orientation toward art as something that informs and transforms, rather than merely entertains.

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This understanding is increasingly under pressure. Advances in artificial intelligence are not simply introducing new tools into artistic practice; they are reconfiguring the conditions under which art is created, experienced, and attributed. AI systems now participate in the generative process, produce outputs with limited human intervention, and increasingly shape both the form and reception of artworks. In doing so, they challenge established assumptions about creativity, authorship, and intentionality.

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At the same time, the ontology of the artwork itself is shifting. Contemporary works are often no longer bounded, material objects, but configurations of code, data, and physical infrastructures—screens, projections, and computational environments—that together constitute the work. These developments give rise to new modes of artistic practice while destabilizing long-standing categories through which art has been understood and evaluated, with implications that extend beyond production to the institutional practices through which art is curated, exhibited, and valued. Against this backdrop, the project examines how artificial intelligence and digital technologies are transforming artistic and institutional practices in the art world.