Website by Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)

Founded in 2016 by artists Hideki Nakazawa and Mika Kusakari, along with a group of 29 founding members.
Based in Tokyo, AIAARG engages in the creation and exhibition of artwork as AIAARG. They organize their exhibitions, concerts, symposiums, and research meetings as their artwork.


2023
44th AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meeting "ChatGPT and Contemporary Art" (Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto. Kumamoto.)
2022
"Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition: Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?" (Main Hall, Parthenon Tama. Tokyo.)
Established the Specified Nonprofit Corporation AI Patronage Group
40th-43rd AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Nakano ZERO. Tokyo. / other locations)
2021
"Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition: The Hard Problem of Aesthetic Consciousness" (Informel Museum of Art, Nakagawa-mura + Wasp Museum + Former Ceramic Studio. Nagano.)
"Bubbles/Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989-2019" (Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art. Kyoto.)
32nd-39th AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa. Kyoto. / other locations)
2020
27th-31st AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (DOMMUNE. Online. / other locations)
2019
AI Art & Aesthetics Exhibition "What If AI Composed for Mr. S?" (The Container. Tokyo.)
23rd-26th AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Tokyo University of the Arts. Tokyo. / other locations)
2018
14th-22nd AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Goethe-Institut Tokyo. Tokyo. / other locations)
2017
"Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition" (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University OIST. Okinawa.) (-2018)
5th-13th AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels. Saitama. / other locations)
2016
1st-4th AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meetings (Bigakko. Tokyo. / other locations)
Establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group
Manifesto of Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics

[Edited and Published Works]
"S/N: What If AI Composed for Mr. S?" (2021)
"Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition: Archive Collection" (2019)
Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Vol. 33 No. 6, Special Feature: "AI and Aesthetics/Art," Cover Contribution (2018)

[Featured and Contributed in]
ITE Transactions on Media Technology and Applications [Upcoming], "Beauty and Monstrosity" (Routledge) [Upcoming] (2023)
Nishi Nihon Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Ongaku no Tomo, RealTokyo (2023)
Bijutsu Techo, Art Collectors, J-CAST News, Playboy (2022)
Yomiuri Shimbun, Nagano Nichinichi Shimbun, Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Chunichi Shimbun (2021)
Yomiuri Shimbun, Tosho Shimbun, Shukan Dokushojin (2020)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, ARTiT, Art Collectors, "AI Revolution for Coexistence with Humans" (NTS Publishing) (2019)
FM Lequio, Galileo X (BS Fuji), Nautilus (2018)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Kyoto Shimbun, Okinawa Times, Ryukyu Shinpo (2017)
Asahi Shimbun, Close-Up Gendai+ (NHK), REAR (2016)


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