Emit and The Age of Ultimation

Emit and The Age of Ultimation were experimental art and research projects by artist Jeroen van der Most about the rising influence of artificial intelligence on art (2015-2017).

The projects consisted of several conceptual artworks, a manifesto, movies and a series of blog posts and interviews published by Dutch media like BNR, Sublime FM and Bright. Next to that, several presentations and lectures about the developed ideas were given by Jeroen van der Most at institutions like the University of Utrecht.

Van der Most theorizes that artificial intelligence will take over an increasingly greater part of the act of creating art. The ease of creation by AI systems will lead to near infinite varieties of form and eventually a fully flexible form of art, adapting to- and interacting with its beholders based on a complete comprehension of the beholder and the surroundings. Several artworks were created that experiment with AI based technologies to visualise these Flexible Forms.