4th edition · Winners and results
4th AI-ARTS Competition 2025
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 4th edition of the AI Arts Competition 2025. The final selection is based on a combination of public voting, the votes of an invited panel of past competition winners, the AI Judge’s scores, and the curatorial review of the organisers. This edition also debuts an AI art video category alongside an outstanding range of still-image works.
For the second year running, we’re using the AI Judge, now updated with the latest models to better analyse and reflect on each piece. Each winning entry with an available report links to the AI Judge’s full evaluation for that submission, offering an extra, experimental layer of insight beside the human perspectives.
Disclaimer: This competition is not about declaring absolute winners or defining what good or bad art is. Our blend of public, peer and AI-led impressions is a way to surface and showcase what is happening in AI-driven creativity within a framework we recognise as imperfect and experimental. We welcome all kinds of AI artworks, as long as they pursue a genuine artistic intention rather than purely decorative or commercial goals, and see this platform as a space for exploration, not exclusion. The aim is to encourage richer, more thoughtful uses of AI in art and give a diverse range of creators room to be seen, shared and discussed.
Winners and results
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Gold Creative Acknowledgement
“Light and dreams” by Mathias Jansson is this year’s winning work, selected through the combined votes of the public, the invited jury of past winners and the AI Judge. The series moves through a line of black-and-white scenes that feel like fragments from the same quiet world: sparse places, careful light, and figures caught in moments that never fully explain themselves. The images carry a calm tension – somewhere between solitude, calm and a faint sense of unease – and leave room for the viewer to imagine what might be happening before or after each frame. It is hard to turn a clear idea into AI images, and harder to keep that idea steady across a whole series without it falling apart. Jansson has been working with AI since the early days; the style holds, the mood holds, and every picture feels necessary rather than decorative.
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Silver & Bronze Recognitions
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AI Propaganda
“AI Propaganda” by Lisa Shalom AI takes second place this year, a series from a prolific AI artist who rarely explains her work in words and instead lets a flow of sharp, polished images do the talking. Blending ad-like beauty shots, almost-perfect bodies and staged scenes with more unsettling moments, the work doesn’t build a single clear story so much as a constant stream of signals that feel familiar and uneasy at the same time. That tension is the core of the series: it shows how easily AI can mimic the smooth language of advertising and political posters while quietly revealing the pressure, fear and impossible ideals hidden inside, asking the viewer to question why these “perfect” images are so attractive and what kind of myths they are helping to spread.
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WinnerBronze Recognition
Hyperdimension
“Hyperdimension” by Toshie is a tightly focused series built around a single clear form: a luminous cube that keeps appearing as a kind of container for different worlds, from stars and galaxies to abstract patterns and organic shapes. The images are clearly the result of a very refined technical process — edges, reflections and light are handled with care — but the technique never feels like a show-off trick; it stays in the background to hold up the idea. By repeating this cube and filling it with shifting universes, the series quietly suggests that reality is layered, structured and more complex than what we see at first glance, turning a simple geometric shape into a way of thinking about where we sit inside a much larger, multi-dimensional space.
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Leading Creators
The AI Arts platform is honoured to highlight five creators whose long, steady work with generative tools has helped shape this new landscape. Each has been active for years, gradually refining their practice and letting their style evolve as the technology changes. Their approaches are very different – in mood, method, background and place in the world – yet all show how AI can be used with real intent, curiosity and care. We see them as key voices in this ongoing shift in art-making, and are proud to share their work here, knowing that what they are doing now will open up new ways of understanding and experiencing AI art in the years to come.
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Jury's Special Recognitions
The Jury’s Special Recognition highlights a small group of artists whose work stands out this year for the way it pushes AI art into new territory. Their projects cover very different paths – from fully automated video systems and blockchain-based image engines to deeply poetic series, highly refined visual research and work that links art with science and medicine. What they share is a clear method, a strong idea and a level of craft that comes from long practice, not quick experiments. With this recognition we want to give them a separate space, as examples of how far AI art can go when it is used with focus, curiosity and a willingness to combine tools, disciplines and ways of thinking.
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Community Favourites
The Community Favourites celebrate artists who have shown a rare talent: the ability to connect with many different audiences. These creators have earned strong support from both the wider public and their fellow artists on the platform, standing out through advanced use of AI techniques across images and video, poetic and conceptual work, rich textures and visual research, and styles ranging from realist to abstract to deeply natural. They come from different countries, backgrounds and aesthetics, yet they share one key quality – their work reaches people, cuts through noise and stays in mind, proving how powerful AI art can be when it truly meets its audience.
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Video Gold
“Return to Roots: Mother of Nature” is the winner of this year’s AI art video category. The short clip simply circles around the wooden mother-figure of the Earth, while birdsong and natural sounds fill the space, and that restraint is exactly what makes it strong: no sci-fi gloss, no flashy effects, just a clear idea held with care. By keeping the image and sound so focused, the work gives viewers time to feel the link between the woman, the forest and the small house she protects, turning a simple rotation around a statue into a calm, emotional reminder of our dependence on nature. It shows how AI video can carry a deep message with minimal means, and that clarity and sincerity is what resonated so strongly with voters this year.
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Video Silver and Bronze
WinnerVideo Silver
Born of clay
“Born of clay” by Deliel receives the second award in this year’s AI art video category, bringing together his long journey from analogue painting and photography into digital, fractal and AI work in a very focused way. The series takes the old Genesis image of humans shaped from clay and turns it into a meditation on how we still seem stuck in that heavy matter: figures half-born from mud, caught between dust and light, carrying the weight of history, war and repetition on their bodies. The use of cold and warm palettes to mark different states of mind – despair, effort, rebellion, acceptance – shows a precise, painterly control, while the closing video shifts the tone towards a quiet hope, following humanity as it finally pulls itself out of the mud and walks toward an open horizon. The piece feels like the work of someone who has spent years thinking about perception and being: carefully built, symbolically rich, and using AI as one more tool in a long, evolving search rather than a shortcut or a gimmick.
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WinnerVideo Bronze
Nursing Home
“Nursing Home” by Jack So is a quiet piece that grows heavier the longer you sit with it. The room is plain, the setup almost banal: rows of cardboard boxes, each holding a metal fan. But as the video unfolds, the small differences between them — one turning steadily, another shaking itself toward the edge, another barely managing a weak rotation, another completely still — begin to feel like a slow inventory of human states. Once the title settles in your mind, the fans stop being objects; they become breaths, bodies, routines, the fragile motions of people held in a place that is meant to care for them yet often reduces them to rhythms and noises. The hum rises and falls, sometimes blending, sometimes clashing, and the whole scene starts to echo the emotional memory Jack carries from visiting a nursing home: lives contained, some trying to leave the box, some resigned to it, some fading quietly under the sound of others still turning. What makes the work powerful is how little it asks of the viewer. With no narrative, no embellishment, no guidance, it lets a simple image hold a truth — a soft, painful reminder of time, vulnerability, and the different ways we continue, slow down, or stop.
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Top 10 Winners by the AI Judge
This year we’re introducing an updated AI Judge, giving AI agents their own voice alongside the human decisions. The process follows the same steps for every piece: first the system scans the images and extracts visual details, then it reads the artist’s text, and finally the latest vision model looks again at the image on its own, without hints, before giving a considered response on intention, coherence, aesthetics, technique and more. There are still clear limits. With current technology it cannot really “watch” video or “hear” music in a way that allows for a fair assessment, so some moving-image works appear without an AI report unless they include stills. On each eligible artwork you’ll find an icon linking to the AI Judge’s analysis. We treat these texts less as verdicts and more as field notes from an evolving machine eye – a way to track how AI’s view of art shifts over the years, and something to question, learn from and, when needed, disagree with.
For those not listed here: To close this edition, we sincerely thank every artist who shared work and every community member who took the time to look, vote and support them. If your name does not appear in these sections, being selected for the competition already means your work stood out among many strong submissions that could not be included. We hope you stay with us, keep experimenting, keep pushing your practice and join future editions. This project only makes sense because of the risk, care and imagination you bring to it.
Next steps announced for this edition
The original announcement said the gold, silver and bronze winners and four leading creators would be contacted to submit their artworks for inclusion in the AI-ARTS Stable Gallery. Selected members of the Jury’s Special Recognition and Community Favourites categories would also receive invitations to submit an artwork to the Permanent Gallery. The winners and four leading creators would be invited to present portfolios in the AI-ARTS Yearly Collection 2025, a printed book distributed globally, with selected artists from the other two categories also invited to contribute.
Thank you for your participation and support. The original announcement promised that participants would receive news about the first AI-ARTS Biennial, including a dedicated section for artists in this competition. Thank you again for your trust, time and support; this project grows out of the work you share with it.
