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Sougwen Chung Trained the Machine on Twenty Years of Her Own Drawings

Sougwen Chung (@sougwen) has been drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015, trained on two decades of archived mark-making. The V&A collected the model itself. At Art Basel Hong Kong this year the machine was driven by brainwaves.

Brain Racked (Ryan McCoy) Builds Alien Civilizations using AI.

Ryan McCoy is a 20-year VFX veteran building elaborate sci-fi civilizations with AI — one prompt at a time, sometimes two full workdays per image. Around 440,000 people on Instagram are paying attention.

Mr. Relative Took His AI Art About Us From Instagram to the Saatchi Gallery

Mr. Relative has made AI art about how people behave together since late 2021. In 2026 he opened a gallery in western Poland, took "This is Humanity" to the Saatchi Gallery, and started listing the tools behind his films.

Julien Durand Has a Day Job in Engineering. It's Why His AI Films Work.

Julien Durand is a mechanical engineer by training. He's also a CivitAI Award-winning AI artist with 323,000 Instagram followers — and the two things are more connected than they look.

Manuela Klauser Knew What She Was Making Before She Let the AI Near It

Manuela Klauser makes "Soft Goth Surrealism" with AI — dark, gothic figures with a pop-whimsy undercurrent that's shown up at the Saatchi Gallery and across international AI art exhibitions. Here's how she actually does it.