Creative Machine

“By providing links between yesterday and today, we offer glimpses of tomorrow. I hope it can inspire teenagers in particular, for they are the ones facing future challenges.” (Curator Tang Xin)

“This is a time, a great opportunity, great innovation, new algorithms being developed the whole time. For young creatives or any creative, this is a really brilliant time to be, creating art or writing software.” (Curator, William Latham)

“Does AI truly possess creativity? Can the emotions generated by machines move us as profoundly as great art?” (Curator, Zhou Yi)

“What will the next generation create in the future? Remember, humanity’s unique gift is our endless capacity to expand our creativity.” (The academic host Frederic Fol Leymarie)

Tang Xin

Co-curator of the exhibition. Tang Xin serves as the Head of the Art Collection Department of Taikang Insurance Group, the art director and curator of Taikang Art Museum. She was active in Beijing as an independent curator since 1997, organizing a series of local contemporary art exhibitions while fostering art exchanges with Europe.She joined Taikang Insurance Group in 2003, founded Taikang Space, Upgraded to Taikang Art Museum in 2023, and has led it to be one of China’s most dynamic non-profit art institutions. As Head of its Art Collection Department, Tang has spent over two decades building a corporate collection that is both industry-leading and of significant scale and art historical value.

Tang Xin has closely followed the development and spread of modern and contemporary art in China since the 20th century. She links the art wave of the socialist revolutionary period with contemporary art, establishing a distinctive and systematic research approach within the Chinese contemporary art world. Additionally, she has contributed to the fields of photography history, the study of female artists, and the discovery and support of emerging art creators. During the inaugural exhibition of the Taikang Art Museum in 2023, Tang and her team introduced a Taikang research system, which integrates a historically significant framework, marked by the years “1905-1942-1976-present,” with 1905 as a key milestone, and the three central themes of “institution, media, and art ecology.”

William Lathan

Co-curator of the exhibition. William Latham is well known for his pioneering Organic Computer Art created in the late eighties and early nineties. His book “Evolutionary Art and Computers” on interactive evolutionary art co-authored Stephen Todd is cited as a leading publication in this domain. From 1993 for thirteen years, initially he worked in Rave Music video production, album cover design and visual stage design and then moved into computer games development. In 2007 he became a Professor in Computing at Goldsmiths University of London.

Zhou Yi

Co-Curator of the exhibition. Graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The Cooper Union in New York in 1999 and a master’s degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2004. Zhou is a senior curator active in Beijing.

Frederic Fol Leymarie

Academic chair and moderator of the exhibition. In 2004, Frederic joined the Computing Department at Goldsmiths as a professor with the mission to develop activities bringing computing and the visual arts under one roof. He started by creating and leading the Masters programme for the Computational Art.Frederic has published in different domains such as AI and computer art, shape understanding and scientific visualisation. Collaborating with experts across computer science, psychology, biomolecular science, archaeology, applied mathematics, the visual arts. Over 130 publications are currently listed under Google Scholar.