{"id":4351834,"date":"2025-06-16T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_news&#038;p=4351834"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:40:04","slug":"art-in-the-age-of-ai-2026-laureates","status":"publish","type":"app_news","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/news\/art-in-the-age-of-ai-2026-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting Our 2026 Arts in the Age of AI Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States, launched its new residency program, <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/press-release\/villa-albertine-launches-new-arts-in-the-age-of-ai-residency-program\/\">Arts in the Age of AI<\/a>, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, with an announcement by French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati. This initiative, funded by French-American patron and technology leader Fidji Simo, will host eight artists and culture professionals who incorporate artificial intelligence into their work, in the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 offices, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participants were selected by a jury of French and American AI professionals, including <strong>Refik Anadol <\/strong>(New Media Artist, Filmmaker, and Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence Aesthetics), <strong>Marcella Lista<\/strong> (Art Historian and Chief Curator at the Mus\u00e9e National d\u2019Art Moderne \u2013 Centre Pompidou, in charge of the New Media Collection), <strong>Chad Nelson<\/strong> (Creative Specialist at OpenAI), and <strong>Mathieu Lorrain<\/strong> (Head of Creative at Google DeepMind). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our 2026 Residents<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4419487\" style=\"width:373px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2.png 720w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Louis-Paul Caron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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, he evaluated 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. At the Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art Contemporain de Lyon, he is currently exhibiting <em>Generating the Future<\/em>, centered on AI\u2019s role in reimagining climate narratives. He studied product design at \u00c9cole Boulle, digital art at Design Academy Eindhoven, and animation at ENSAD. He is a finalist for the Climart Prize and the Digital Art Prize. He has participated in residencies, including at the Fe\u00ff Art Festival and Le Grand Large. Additionally, he has participated in international exhibitions in Art Basel, Seoul, Brussels, New York, Milan, Dubai, Berlin, and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residency Project: Pacific Palisades is an AI-driven immersive installation that reimagines lost homes as a dynamic living memory, blending painting, sound data, and generative art to evoke nostalgia and deepen our connection to a changing environment. The project will explore solastalgia, a term coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht to describe the distress experienced when one\u2019s home environment undergoes irreversible change. Unlike nostalgia, which longs for a distant past, solastalgia is a grief anchored in the present, triggered by environmental destruction and climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4421081\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-6.png 588w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-6-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lou Fauroux <\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lou Fauroux in an artist and graduate of ECAL and the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris (2022), where she focused on the ethical issues surrounding AI and technology\u2019s influence on humans. She uses video, sculpture, installation, and 3D and explores the ethical implications of AI and technology\u2019s 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&#8217;s emancipatory promises, advocating for a radical, queer hacker-led challenge to big tech monopolies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residency Project: Create a sequel to Porn Family (2019), titled Family X, exploring the evolving adult film industry and its impact on performers. Seven years later, amid AI-generated content, new platforms like OnlyFans, and shifting political landscapes, the film follows queer performer Kasey Warner and their community. Through intimate moments and activism, it highlights the intersection of technology, representation, and labor rights. The genre it focuses on a has proven to be standard defining for the wider film industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4421149\" style=\"width:304px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7.png 656w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-7-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hanako Murakami<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanako Murakami is an artist born in Japan and raised in Belgium. She has been based in Paris since 2012. Murakami graduated with a BA in Aesthetics from the University of Tokyo. She has an MA in New Media from Tokyo University of the Arts. She was a resident at Le Fresnoy (2014) and the Getty Research Institute and George Eastman Museum (2018). She was awarded the VOCA Prize (Japan) and is a laureate of the CNAP National Commission Image 3.0. Her pieces are part of the CNAP, FRAC, and Getty Museum collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residency Project: Challenge our conventional understanding of vision and photography through AI and eye tracking, transforming the act of seeing into an active, creative force that generates images and redefines visual perception. At the core of this project is the idea that seeing is not a neutral act\u2014it is an engagement, an intervention, a transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4421200\" style=\"width:331px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8.png 670w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Olivain Porry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivain Porry was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.&nbsp; He is an artist and researcher focused on technology and communication. He received a PhD in practice-based visual arts from SACRe \/ EnsadLab (2022). Porry creates cybernetic and generative AI participatory systems and challenges traditional views on authorship and spectatorship. He publishes peer-reviewed research on robotics and technologically driven art practices. He has exhibited in France and Sweden, including at the Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers, La Ga\u00eet\u00e9 Lyrique, and La Maison des M\u00e9tallos. He was nominated for the Pulsar Prize for innovation in art and technology. His current research examines large language models and their socio-technical impact, reframing relationships between humans, AI, and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residency Project: &#8220;Synthetic Syncretism&#8221; aims to explore language and creolization in the age of AI by developing three AI agents, each speaking a different language (English, Cajun French, and Louisiana Creole), and immersing them in a continuous conversation where they learn from one another to generate an artificial creole that poetically reflects linguistic nuances and AI biases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Our Partner:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fidji Simo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fidji Simo is the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Instacart. She is a consumer technology industry veteran who has spent more than 15 years leading the operations, strategy and product development for some of the world\u2019s leading businesses. Prior to joining Instacart, Simo spent 10 years at Facebook, where she was the Head of Facebook. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at OpenAI and Shopify. Simo founded the Metrodora Institute, a multidisciplinary medical clinic and research foundation dedicated to the care and cure of complex chronic conditions, and serves as President of the Metrodora Foundation. Simo holds a Master of Management from HEC Paris and spent the last year of her Masters program at UCLA Anderson School of Business. She grew up in S\u00e8te, France, and now lives in California with her husband and daughter.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Camille Jeanjean,<\/strong> New Media Officer \u2013 camille.jeanjean@villa-albertine.org <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4774845,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[215],"app_city_tax":[235],"app_news_type":[],"class_list":["post-4351834","app_news","type-app_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-new-media","app_city_tax-all-cities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presenting Our 2026 Arts in the Age of AI Laureates - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/news\/art-in-the-age-of-ai-2026-laureates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presenting Our 2026 Arts in the Age of AI Laureates - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States, launched its new residency program, Arts in the Age of AI, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, with an announcement by French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati. 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