Sixi Education
How AI Changes Art Making and Aesthetic
Sixi Lecture
Event Date
June 14, Saturday, 2025
Guest
Lucia Lu
Event Review
On June 14th, Sixi Museum was honored to invite Dr. Lu Xiao, Assistant Professor at the School of Film, TV and Creative Technology of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Director of the Creative Technology and Industry Research Center, for a lecture titled as " How Does AI Reshape Artistic Creation and Aesthetics".
In recent years, the rapid advancement of AIGC (AI-Generated Content) has increasingly blurred the boundaries between technology and art, sparking both excitement and critical debates. Dr. Lu initiate her talk by tracing the historical interplay of technology and art—from the ancient Greek era where craft and creativity were inseparable, to the Renaissance’s fusion of scientific inquiry and artistic expression—before weaving in her own academic and pedagogical journey to illustrate how AIGC is reshaping curricula and real-world applications today.
Subsequently, she analyzed how artificial intelligence reconstructs the creative process through multiple cases ranging from the realm of fine art, film, television, and gaming. Creations that once consumed enormous time, manpower, and material resources have been significantly streamlined with the intervention of AI, while traditional aesthetic elements face disruption as being replaced by user data and algorithms, indicating a close integration of human and machine imagination.
The lecture ended with a lively dialogue with attendees sharing firsthand experiences of integrating AI into daily practice—and grappling with questions like: Will AI necessitate new critical frameworks for art? And could its impact on the art world mirror the seismic shift triggered by photography?