Mat Collishaw review – AI plants put the shock and sensation back into British art

Jonathan Jones | The Guardian | 21st October 2023

Much of AI-based art is ho-hum. As Collishaw demonstrates, though, it needn’t be. In a “creepy and beautiful” show of (broadly) botanical art, he uses AI to “fabricate” nature. Images of tulips imitate Dutch still lifes. Durer’s drawings of plants are animated so they ripple in the breeze. There is a 3D image of an oak tree. Collishaw’s botanical forms are recreated “with stunning exactitude while [life is] uncannily absent. It’s a natural history of our loss of nature [and] nature, it is implied, will have its revenge.”