Gradient Canvas brings together 13 new works born from the crossroads of human perception, machine vision, and the Bay Area's ecology.
Art and artificial intelligence as a bridge
Can you imagine artificial intelligence as a lens, not a replacement? Gradient Canvas proposes exactly that: 13 commissions to global artists who used Google tools and AI techniques to reinterpret the local natural environment. The pieces aim to show how different intelligences—the human, the technical, and that of ecosystems—dialogue and translate what they see and feel.
Many of the artists, several with prior collaborations with Google, work across mixed disciplines and experimental methods. The result isn't just images: it's perspectives on how we perceive, mediate, and inhabit the world when we include digital agents in the creative process.
The exhibition poses a simple, powerful question: what happens when we broaden our view with algorithms that also 'see' the world?
