Spanish generative AI and digital art pioneer, technologist, writer, and curator Miguel Ripoll began experimenting with combinatorial algorithms and generative code back in 1999 – his early works (exhibited in major institutions like the Reina SofÃa Museum in Madrid, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the Cervantes Institute) are now in the permanent collection of the Design Museum in Barcelona – but he became frustrated by the limitations of the technology available at the time, and decided to pause artistic practice entirely.
For the last two decades, instead, he has worked at the intersection of creativity and technology as an expert in the design and coding of interfaces for complex information systems for top universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, California – Berkeley, Stony Brook, etc.), prestigious foundations (Qatar, King Hassan II Fund, Andrew W. Mellon, and the American Historical Association), and government agencies in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. He has also lectured at UCL, Lund, Columbia, the IESE, etc. His commercial work encompasses digital, print, multimedia, film, and theatre design and has been featured in many books and international magazines.
Since 2021, and focused full-time on artistic production again, Miguel has continued to explore complex LLMs as a tool for art production in a series of phygital works that question and subvert long-established themes and traditions of artistic praxis.
