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“The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.” - Marcel Duchamp, 1958

When Marcel Duchamp first started displaying his readymades in the early twentieth century, he sparked a conversation around the distinguishing criteria for something to be considered a work of art. Notions of authorship, process, politics, taste, and creativity were foregrounded in a way that is emerging again today as AI Art becomes more prevalent in contemporary art scenes. 'A Kind of Alchemy': The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence considers the medium of AI Art and its developing tools, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, along with the artists who are at the heart of this experimentation and emerging practice. 

The DAHJ Gallery is an online space for media art and exceptional art historical visualizations, hosted by the International Journal for Digital Art History. For this exhibition, a virtual reality installation was designed in Mozilla Hubs to showcase selected works along with interviews and other publications that explore recent themes in AI Art. Curated by Emily Lawhead and Francesca Albrezzi.

Participating artists are based internationally and include:

Julia Albrecht, Sveta Bilyk, Maria Björkdahl, Sean Capone, Dennis Delgado, Dekker Dreyer (Phantom Astronaut), Héctor González, Mirabelle Jones, Olga Klimovitskaya, George Legrady, Patrick Lichty, Richard Lundquist, Tannon Reckling, Jacob Riddle, Kenneth Russo and WAAI, Eryk Salvaggio, Guli Silberstein, Nanut Thanapornrapee, Konstantine Tsafatinos, Kevin Yatsu, and Lidiya Zelke.

JOINING THE EXHIBITION ROOM

To access the VR exhibition environment, click "Load Room" below and then select your avatar and "Join Room" to view, or open the environment in a new browser window via this link. Before entering a Hubs room you are in the room's lobby. You can see and hear what's going on in the room but you can only interact with the others using text chat. The process of entering a room is a bit different depending on your device.

Please note that the environment only allows for 50 people to enter at a time. If you cannot join us right away, please wait a few minutes and try again. Also, please give the environment a few minutes to load. If you are having trouble with video works, they can also be viewed on the artist webpages.

For more information, see this documentation on how to join rooms in Mozilla Hubs. 

NAVIGATION

If you are joining via a desktop, click and drag with your mouse to look around. Use the arrow key or the ‘W’, ‘A’, ‘S’, and ‘D’ keys to navigate forward, backward, up, and down based on the placement of your mouse. Using the ‘G’ key will allow you toggle between fly mode and ground mode. If you plan on joining from a touch-screen device or a VR headset, here is additional documentation regarding how to navigate.

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