The Place of AI in MY Artistic Creation...
Many of the images shown here emerged from dreams, long before artificial intelligence found its way into our studios. In the late 1990s, during my training in synthetic imaging and 3D, I was already imagining a future where the invisible would become tangible: computer-generated forms, objects born of light, images floating between two worlds. As a teenager, I was fascinated by the universe of Star Trek and by George Lucas’s Star Wars: their special effects, the promise of unexplored worlds, spaceships, holograms, and interstellar quests. These visionary works nourished my imagination and inspired my desire to cross the frontiers of what is possible.
I also grew up listening to a lot of music, especially Pink Floyd, whose sonic and visual universe has deeply shaped my sensibility and my approach to creation. I saw, long before it existed, the first signs of 3D printing, holography, and generative algorithms; I sensed that one day the human hand would enter into dialogue with the machine, to the point where it would be hard to tell where the dream begins and where matter ends. Today, all of this has become reality. In my studio, the palette is no longer limited to brushes and traditional colors. I work as much with canvas as with aluminum, with pixels as with volume, with light as with algorithms. I sculpt in 3D, explore additive printing, compose with morphing software, and bring artificial intelligence, code machines, and image memory into conversation. I create holograms, hybrid objects, and landscapes where the old and the new cross paths and question each other.
My studio is a laboratory: a place for experimentation, doubt, and invention. Technology is an insatiable partner, but poetry remains the compass. But AI raises a new, dizzying question: what becomes of the artist when the machine learns to create? Where does the hand end and the algorithm begin? This shifting boundary forces us to redefine the very meaning of the artistic gesture and the value of authorship.
That is why, recently, I signed the ADAGP petition, affirming the importance of defending the singularity, the responsibility, and the irreducible human part of creation in the age of artificial intelligence. In this dialogue with the machine, I am always searching for the invisible center, that point of balance where chaos becomes form, where the impossible becomes visible.
AI is neither an endpoint nor a threat: it is a ladder to infinity, a challenge for the imagination, a living question to which each work tries to bring its own light. Philippe ORSERO :)
