A new generation of visual artists and creators is using artificial intelligence to create art with machines, without sacrificing their humanity in the process.
Step into Jonah King’s queer sci-fi virtual reality game Honey Fungus, and you’re immediately transported to a world that could only exist through the marriage of human imagination and machine learning. Floating through a viscous digital landscape, you encounter creatures that defy biological classification: lush beings that are part human torso, part exotic mushroom, with forms that pulse and contort like alien dancers caught mid-performance.