NVIDIA GTC Paris, held June 10-12 at VivaTech, will feature a curated AI art gallery showcasing seven artists and fashion designers who use machine learning to create artwork. Exhibitors include aurèce vettier (Paul Mouginot), whose series 'le travail des rêves' and 'the light that is not seen' train AI on personal childhood photos to generate dreamlike oil paintings, and Senegalese artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, whose project 'Once Upon a Garden' documents extinct flora from West Africa's Sahel region using AI-generated imagery. The gallery aims to demonstrate how AI can serve as a creative partner rather than just a tool.
This exhibition matters because it positions AI as a legitimate medium for fine art, challenging traditional boundaries between technology and human creativity. By bringing AI-generated works to a major tech conference in an art capital like Paris, the event bridges the gap between the art world and the tech industry, potentially influencing how museums, galleries, and collectors perceive and value AI-assisted art. It also raises important questions about memory, identity, and representation in AI training data, as highlighted by Rebeiz's focus on underrepresented regions and extinct species.