Denver Art Museum’s Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Rory Padeken has a secret he can’t yet totally reveal.
“I can say that the department has recently acquired a work created with artificial intelligence,” said Padeken, who has demonstrated that his intelligence is far from artificial. “We’re hoping to get it on exhibition in the next reinstallation in May [2025] if all goes as planned.”
Padeken, who assumed his role at the DAM in June 2022, vaguely described the new acquisition: “What you see is a painting. She [the artist] calls it a painting. Actually, if we were getting very technical, it’s a print on an acrylic sheet. There’s no computer wiring. It’s not connected in real time to the internet, for instance.”
AI draws a lot of ire from the art world, yet Miranda Lash, Ellen Bruss senior curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver …