2025 Still ImageAward Finalists
Facetune Portrait - Universal Beauty, Nigeria (gown)
Gretchen Andrew
Facetune Portraits use custom robotics 🤖 to physically apply popular “beautifying” AI 👄 into oil paintings 🎨. The resulting Facetune Portraits reveal the tension between who we are and who AI and algorithms say we should be. We see the the homogenizing impact across cultures.
In The Past Hides The Future
Esteban Amaro
In a desert of stardust and silence, AI-born monoliths rise—photograms lost in the sand, lost in time. Echoes of the past, glimpses of the future. Between myth and matter. Are these AI able to see what we cannot see? A journey through time, space and creation.
After Walker Evans 2
Aphic
This artwork symbolizes the transition of photography in the age of AI. By contrasting past and present photographs, it reveals how our perception of images has changed and explores the potential for the future shaped by humans and AI.
The Sylphs
Ana María Caballero
The Sylphs is from Being Borges, a poetic and (post) photographic recasting of Jorge Luis Borges & Margarita Guerrero's 'Book of Imaginary Beings,' a landmark work of Spanish literature. This series begs the question: What's at stake when language becomes literal via the visual?
An Incantation in Twelve Prompts
Danielle Ezzo
An Incantation in Twelve Prompts is a poem paired with photographic images. The poem delineates a relationship between two lovers—the image maker and the medium of photography itself. Each stanza serves as a prompt, which is then fed into a text-to-image stable diffusion model.
I'm With You
Kevin Esherick
I'm With You is a series in which the artist trained a model on images of his late brother, to imagine what life might look like if he were still here. The pieces were made by interrupting the image generation process, leaving the images half-formed, like memories slipping away.
Hyperportrait I
Kevin Esherick
Hyperportrait I is a self portrait in latent space. Created by training an AI model on images of the artist then extracting the abstract representation it develops, it can be used to generate infinite images of the artist. It is a portrait that contains all other portraits.
Specimen #1 - #6
Susanne Fagerlund
Susanne Fagerlund explores animals, plants, and digital hybrid species in the project. She draws inspiration from nature's ability to resist, adapt, metamorphose, and form networks to share resources.
Polyamour mon Amour
Ellii
Polyamour mon Amour is a reflection on human entanglement, where souls entwine and unfold in an unexpected choreography, a dance where the fleeting converges with the inevitable. It celebrates the unpredictability of connection, an homage to the delicate strength of bonds
Anomalia (AK10)
Chikai
A piece from my ANOMALIA collection, situating a lone figure as both subject and rupture within a broader socio-cultural stream. A subtle piscine morphology emerges in the textural surfaces—scales, fins, gills—traces of evolutionary ancestry where refusal becomes a visible force.
Hyperreality
Liat Segal
The site-specific immersive installation covers the Wende Museum’s windows with dozens of coded machine-made paintings, filtering the view with an added layer of reality - a Hyperreality.
Candid
Jessica Tucker
Private photographs from the artist’s phone are transformed into eruptive bodies made of her own face. Subverting the deepfake to hide within her own image, they cannibalize visibility in a time when we are relentlessly reduced and reconstructed by invisible algorithmic gazes.
Reflection
Pindar Van Arman
“Reflection” explores mechanical creativity as a robot makes marks, analyzes them with agentic AI, then deciding what to do next based on its own progress. Inspired by Paul Klee’s feedback loops, it’s a synthetic creative process at the threshold of information and imagination.
we will make you bow to the delicate
aurèce vettier
Sculptural diptych by aurèce vettier composed of two engraved sandstone tablets framed in charred oak. The work blends poetic writing, personal history, and AI-generated language and alphabets into a visual meditation on fragility and resilience.