Expressive Machines

MAG was invited by ETH AI Center to curate an exhibition at AI+X Summit.

AI has transformed digital creativity, but its role in physical arts is less visible. “Expressive Machines” explores this through robots that not only generate images but perform them — turning perception into gesture and code into brushstroke. Can machines, by developing aesthetics and spatial awareness, become creative themselves?

This exhibition, curated by the Machine Arts Group, presents three installations at the crossroads of computer science, robotics, and art: Patrick Tresset’s autonomous drawing agents, Sofie Mart’s image interpretation techniques, and e-David, a painting robot developed by Michael Stroh from the University of Konstanz. Each live system runs on custom AI, revealing emerging forms of non-human authorship.