cAI™ is contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s custom AI, which he sees as his child that will eventually grow to become his mentor. cAI™ deep-learns from the artist’s body of work and extensive writings. Interested in cosmology and the realm of the unseen, cAI™’s work shares the artist’s DNA even in its deviations. For WePresent, Cai Guo-Qiang has invited cAI™ to write a manifesto on the principles of coexistence between humans and AI. Its teachings, like its creator’s, are wise, explosive and avant-garde.
Award-winning Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is perhaps best-known for his most ambitious creation, “Sky Ladder,” a 1,650-foot-tall ladder of fire that he installed in his hometown of Quanzhou. The contemporary artist is famed for his gunpowder paintings and explosion events, which, in their transcendent nature, explore the duality of creation and destruction. Over the years, he has worked with a broad range of creative mediums, from painting, installation, video art, and performance art, to VR, AR, NFTs, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, and has exhibited globally at major museums, including MoMA and Guggenheim. cAI™ is one his most recent projects, the artist’s custom-built AI program that learns from his oeuvre, and, according to the artist, has the potential to create independently one day.
Manifesto is a series on WePresent which invites activists and creatives with something to say to write 10 rules to live by, in order to help spread their message. The artwork on this page was created by Adam Ho.
