Event overview
Gemini co-creates evolutionary art in Latham’s style—AI takes the aesthetic lead.
Pioneering Digital Artist William Latham (Professor at Goldsmiths) and senior research engineer Dylan Banarse (of Google Deepmind) will discuss their ongoing research, undertaken in collaboration with mathematician Stephen Todd, and their first joint exhibition, “Foundation and Evolution.” This weaves together the huge themes of Generative Art, Evolution and AI and will run at the Oxo Gallery, London until 26th October. In this novel work, the artist hands over creative control to AI, with Google’s Gemini replacing him and directing the evolution of complex 3D forms in William’s style. Dylan coined the term Foundational Evolution for this fusion of the advanced AI< genetic mechanisms and unique 3D "form-growing" grammar developed by Latham and Todd over the past thirty-five years with Gemini, a foundation model trained on vast amounts of text and images.
In the exhibition, sponsored by Google Deepmind, Gemini breaks new ground by interpreting abstract visuals in a human-like way, finding meaning in complex forms. It then proceeds to analyse its own findings, introducing a textual (and fully AI-generated) component to the Evolutionary Art, which is of interest in how it reflects on the role of both human and AI artist/ selector in the Evolutionary Art process (which William has previously described as ‘Evolution by Aesthetics’) and also for what it reveals about the inner workings of the Foundation Model itself. While William will focus on the artistic implications of this new work, Dylan will explain its significance in relation to the latest AI technology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Oct 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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