Jeu de Paume in Paris has announced that it is organizing a major exhibition on artificial intelligence this year. Presented under the title Le Monde selon l’IA (The World According to AI), the large-scale show will occupy all the spaces in the arts center.

The curator Antonio Somaini has made a selection of works created over the past decade by contemporary artists who have addressed artificial intelligence through different media including sculpture, literature, video, photography and more. Featured artists include Julian Charrière, Grégory Chatonsky, Agnieszka Kurant, Christian Marclay, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Sasha Stiles and others.

Le Monde selon l’IA will guide visitors through the history of AI, establishing its links with the art world from its early stirrings in the 1950s to the present day. The historical segment of the exhibition is introduced by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler's giant diagram Calculating Empires, which provides a massive overview of the development of communication technologies since the 1500s, tracing the winding path through the inventions and scientific, cultural, and technical advancements that paved the way for the emergence of AI.

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Calculating Empires, 2023. Diagram map. Courtesy of the artists.

The next segment pivots towards the impact that analytical AI, especially computer vision and facial recognition, have on the economic, political and social realms. In a new work specially commissioned for the exhibition, Hito Steyerl turns a critical eye on the ability of AI systems to transform and distort visual perception into a means of control and standardization. In Faces of ImageNet, Trevor Paglen demonstrates how the ability of facial recognition technology to identify faces through simplified models shatters the diversity and complexity of reality.

In the final segment, devoted to generative AI, artists grapple with the capacity of large language models to create new text or images through its access to vast repositories of online data. Of particular interest in works by Inès Sieulle, Andrea Khôra and Jacques Perconte is how the implementation of AI in the editing and reshaping of existing film content and the creation of new content changes our perception of visual narration.

Le Monde selon l’IA opens on April 11, 2025. More information about this and other events at Jeu de Paume can be accessed on their site.

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