This Startup Is Trying to Foster an AI Art Scene in Korea

The country's first machine learning gallery joins a growing global scene spurred by tech advances

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A South Korean startup is holding a competition to fill one of the world’s first galleries for machine learning-generated art in a bid to foster a nascent artificial intelligence creativity scene in the country.

The company, Pulse9, which makes AI-powered graphics tools, is soliciting art pieces that make use of machine learning tech in some way—whether to produce an image out of whole cloth or restyle or supplement an artist’s work—through the end of September.

The project is a notable addition to a burgeoning global community of technologists, new media artists and other creatives who are exploring the bounds of machine creativity through art, spurred by recent research advances that have made AI-generated content more realistic and elaborate than ever.

The medium had perhaps its biggest mainstream breakthrough in 2018, when Christie’s Auction House sold its first piece of AI-generated art for nearly half a million dollars—a classical style painting of a fictional...

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