Art in the Age of AI 2026 Laureates

Art in the Age of AI was launched at the AI Action Summit in Paris by the French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati who announced the new residency program “Arts in the Age of AI”, by Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States. This initiative, funded by Franco-American patron and technology leader Fidji Simo, will host eight artists or culture professionals who incorporate artificial intelligence into their work, in the United States.   

Villa Albertine will welcome four creators each year in the United States in 2026 and 2027, for two-month research and exploration residencies. The creators will receive individualized artistic and professional guidance, tapping into the full AI ecosystem, including tech companies, universities, research centers, and cultural institutions. They will carry out their residencies in the location most relevant to their research project among the 10 cities where Villa Albertine has chapters: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. 

The participants were selected by a jury of French and American AI professionals: Refik Anadol (New Media Artist, Filmmaker, and Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence Aesthetics), Marcella Lista (Art Historian and Chief Curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of the New Media Collection), Chad Nelson (Creative Specialist at OpenAI), Mathieu Lorrain (Head of Creative at Google DeepMind).  

The four participants in the new residency program Art in the Age of AI are:  

Louis-Paul Caron

Louis-Paul Caron works at the intersection of climate and technology, using digital tools to create immersive and thought-provoking narratives. Among his recent projects: the impact of climate disasters on human memory and perception. He uses 3D animation, oil painting, generative art, and AI to blur boundaries between reality and fiction.He is currently exhibiting at Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Generating the Future, on AI’s role in reimagining climate narratives. He studied Product Design at École Boulle, Digital Art at Design Academy Eindhoven, & Animation at ENSAD. He is a finalist for: Climart Prize, Digital Art Prize. Residencies: Feÿ Art Festival, Le Grand Large.He also was internationally exhibited: Art Basel, Seoul, Brussels, New York, Milan, Dubai, Berlin, and London. 

Lou Fauroux  

Lou Fauroux in an artist graduate of ECAL and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (2022), where she focused on the ethical issues surrounding AI and technology’s influence on humans. She uses video, sculpture, installation, and 3D, she explores the ethical implications of AI and technology’s impact on humanity, while re-appropriating pop culture and personal queer experiences to create new mythologies and challenge social power structures. Influenced by 1990s digital culture, Lou Fauroux critically engages with Web 2.0’s emancipatory promises, advocating for a radical, queer hacker-led challenge to big tech monopolies

Hanako Murakami

Hanako Murakami is an artist born in Japan and raised in Belgium. She is based in Paris since 2012. Murakami graduated BA in Aesthetics from University of Tokyo. MA in New Media from Tokyo University of the Arts. She was a resident at Le Fresnoy (2014), Getty Research Institute and George Eastman Museum (2018). She was awarded VOCA Prize (Japan), laureate of the CNAP national commission Image 3.0. Her pieces are part of the CNAP, FRAC, and Getty Museum collections.

Olivain Porry

Olivain Porry was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.  He is an artist and researcher focused on technology and communication. He graduated PhD in practice-based visual arts from SACRe / EnsadLab (2022). DNSEP from ESBANM (2015). Porry creates cybernetic and generative AI participatory systems. Challenges traditional views on authorship and spectatorship. Publishes peer-reviewed research on robotics and technologically driven art practices. He exhibited in France and Sweden, including: Musée des Arts et Métiers, La Gaîté Lyrique, La Maison des Métallos. He was nominated for the Pulsar Prize for innovation in art and technology. His current research examines large language models and their sociotechnical impact, reframing relationships between humans, AI, and nature.  

Contact:

Camille Jeanjean, New Media Officer – camille.jeanjean@villa-albertine.org