The Kanvas art space is hosting AI-VERSE, an exhibition organised by capitArtX, a curatorial initiative led by Işıl Ezgi Çelik, İrem Çoban, and Esra Özkan. On display until 21 March 2025, the exhibition delves into the aesthetics of the future, featuring seven digital artists — Connie Bakshi, Dilara Başköylü, Can Büyükberber, Jiayu Liu, Mohsen Hazrati, Tatsuru Arai, and İrem Çoban, — alongside the Void art collective.
The show displays mesmerising digital art pieces created through the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, offering numerous visions of the future while reflecting on the present. Moving through the realms of architecture, natural habitats, and virtual models, these works collectively shape the unique AI-VERSE.
With a background in classical piano and biomedical engineering, American artist Connie Bakshi draws from her Taiwanese ancestral lineage of shamans, referring to herself as a “digital shaman.” Her practice integrates 3D modelling, blockchain, and AI to examine ancient cultures and the human psyche, guiding audiences toward self-discovery. In the exhibition, she is represented by Dawn Chorus, a piece envisioning a post-human world where machines create in their own image.
Turkish artist Dilara Başköylü‘s work encompasses generative art, interactive design, audio-visual production, and AI. With her visual language reflecting and imitating emotions through colour, light, sound, movement, and time, she navigates the intersection of the physical and digital, investigating how human and technological realms interact and evolve. Başköylü displays Journey to Myself, an AI-driven video installation that merges technology and nature, symbolising a journey of self-discovery. It invites viewers to reflect on identity, memory, and the interplay between the artificial and the organic.
Turkish artist Can Büyükberber creates audio-visual experiences that blur the boundaries between physical and digital spaces. His practice involves using different media, such as virtual and augmented reality, projection mapping, and large-scale displays. Driven by an interdisciplinary approach that merges art, design, and science, Büyükberber’s work explores human perception. In AI-VERSE, he presents Future Elegance, a series of artworks investigating novel aesthetics through generative AI. This series blends hyper-realistic virtual models with surreal design environments, creating a fluid and organic visual harmony.
Famous for her immersive light installations, Chinese artist Jiayu Liu utilises live and static data streams alongside digital technologies to reimagine the natural world. Her work examines human relationships with nature and the environment, exploring patterns of behaviour and response. In AI-VERSE, Liu showcases 380.49 hPa, an artwork inspired by Nepal’s Nuptse mountain. Composed of musical chapters and virtual scene constructions, the piece narrates the climbing experience through layered fragments and rhythms.
Iranian artist Mohsen Hazrati‘s work revolves around digital culture, new aesthetics, and their integration with the Shirazi culture and mysticism. He presents his SOLITARY BIRD HATCH project (SOBH), an exploration of spiritual and virtual creation, conceptually linked to cryptocurrency but rooted in nature and the soul of living beings.
Inspired by technology, science, and philosophy, Void specialises in digital arts and immersive media installations. The collective presents The Journey of Being, a project tracing the path from human creation to the Big Bang. Rooted in mysticism yet framed through a universal perspective, the work explores the existential quest to understand the nature of being.
Japanese composer and audio-visual artist Tatsuru Arai fuses classical and contemporary music traditions with AI and computer technology. His work expresses cosmic and natural phenomena beyond cultural and emotional limitations, envisioning a universal aesthetic. AI-VERSE features Arai’s CRYPTO PLANTS, a meditation on the intersection of natural energy, science, and technology. By juxtaposing natural flora with AI-created flowers, the piece contemplates humanity’s relationship with nature and technology.
To learn more about AI-VERSE, please visit the exhibition’s official web page.
In addition, you might be interested in learning about other places in Dubai where you can enjoy digital art and reading our article about four Middle Eastern AI artists.
