"The World According to AI" at Jeu de Paume

Paris Exhibit

Le Monde selon l’IA (“The World According to AI”) is a landmark exhibition running from April 11 to September 21, 2025, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. This ambitious show explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative practice, spanning visual arts, photography, cinema, literature, and music. The exhibition critically examines how AI is transforming the way we create, perceive, and interpret art, positioning itself at the heart of contemporary debates about technology, creativity, and society.

Exhibition Overview and History

Curated by Antonio Somaini with Ada Ackerman, Alexandre Gefen, and Pia Viewing, the exhibition is spread across all floors of the museum. It is structured around two major strands of AI:

Analytical AI: Systems like computer vision and facial recognition that analyze and interpret the world.
Generative AI: Models that create new images, texts, sounds, or other content, fundamentally reshaping artistic creation.

The exhibition is punctuated by "time capsule" stations- miniature cabinets of curiosities- that provide historical context, tracing the genealogy of AI from early computing devices and vintage machine vision experiments to today’s advanced neural networks. This approach links current innovations to their deep technical and cultural roots, helping visitors understand both the radical novelty and the historical continuity of AI in art.

Best Works in the Exhibit

The show features a diverse selection of French and international artists who have engaged with AI from critical and experimental perspectives. Some of the standout works and artists include:

Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler: Known for their critical investigation into the hidden infrastructures and politics of AI systems.
Agnieszka Kurant: Explores collective intelligence and the boundaries between human and machine creativity.
Christian Marclay: Presents AI-remixed soundscapes, questioning the authorship and originality in music.
Trevor Paglen: Investigates AI’s role in surveillance and the politics of images.
Hito Steyerl: Examines how AI systems generate and interpret images, challenging traditional notions of photographic truth.
Aurèce Vettier: Features early works such as we will make you bow to the delicate-sandstone tablets inscribed with the Latent Botanist alphabet, created using generative AI.

These works collectively illustrate the dual identity of AI as both a tool of surveillance and control, and a new medium for artistic expression.

AI in Art: Implications for Creators

AI is not merely a tool but a creative partner, enabling artists to explore new forms and challenge traditional boundaries. Artists provide the vision, prompts, and parameters, while AI generates outputs-resulting in a symbiotic relationship that expands the possibilities of artistic expression.

Key Impacts:

Collaboration: AI acts as an extension of human creativity, allowing for the blending of intuition and computational precision.
New Aesthetics: Generative AI enables the creation of artworks that were previously unimaginable, from novel visual styles to innovative soundscapes.
Reframing Authorship: The rise of AI-generated art prompts a reevaluation of authorship, originality, and the role of the artist in the creative process.
Interdisciplinary Reach: AI is reshaping not just visual arts, but also music, literature, and film-encouraging experimentation and new forms of storytelling.

The exhibition also addresses the ethical and philosophical questions raised by AI in art, including issues of data privacy, labor automation, and the future of creative work.

Exhibition Experience and Public Engagement

Beyond static artworks, Le Monde selon l’IA features a robust program of film screenings, expert talks, and even a mock “trial” of an AI, inviting visitors to critically engage with the technology as a civic and cultural phenomenon2. A comprehensive bilingual catalogue with essays from researchers further contextualizes the works.

The setting at Jeu de Paume-a venue renowned for its focus on photography and image-based art-underscores the exhibition’s central question: in an era of AI, what does it mean to create and interpret images when the camera is replaced by code?

Le Monde selon l’IA at Jeu de Paume is a pivotal exhibition that not only showcases cutting-edge AI-driven art but also invites the public to reflect on the profound changes AI brings to creativity, authorship, and society. It is both a celebration and a critical examination of the new artistic frontier shaped by artificial intelligence.

---Articles Referenced in this Blog---

https://www.houseofsolo.co.uk/le-monde-selon-lia/

https://magzoid.com/the-impact-of-ai-on-art-creation-transforming-the-art-world/

https://jeudepaume.org/en/evenement/the-world-through-ai/

https://parisjetaime.com/evenement/exposition-le-monde-selon-l-ia-e1439

https://www.worklife.vc/blog/ai-artist

https://www.squirrly.co/marketingtools/how-ai-improves-art-creation-process/

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