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The past years have seen an explosion of AI advancements, innovations and breakthroughs. Some researchers and companies talk of humanity being on the cusp of inventing the first Artificial General Intelligence (AGIs) systems while many others are actively engineering systems around AI models to give them agency, a field recently buzzing under the term Agentic AI.

In the artistic realm, living organisms have often been used as models (e.g. for nude paintings or portraits), as mediums (e.g. painting on trees or plants), and occasionally as collaborators in the process of artistic creation (e.g. Boronali’s donkey). But recent technological advances have paved the way for a whole new way of incorporating life in our creative practices — by creating it.