Hyerin Im
PROJECTS1. mistake makes meaning
- 2. unspoken into the spoken
4. distortion studies
5. the cabinet of dr. algorithm
6. slight
7. spring rounds
8. promptcrafter
About
Writing
Mistake makes meaning: The future of generative AI
AI Aesthetics · Machine Error · Homogeneity · ImperfectionWhat makes a good AI artwork?
Maybe I should ask: what makes a high-quality AI image? Is it photorealism? The ability to execute a prompt with perfect accuracy? At some point, I grew tired of these criteria.
As generative AI became increasingly capable, its outputs also became increasingly homogeneous. The same aesthetics, compositions, and visual languages were repeatedly rewarded as “good.” I began to wonder: Are we judging beauty, or are we gradually learning to prefer the beauty that AI keeps presenting to us?
My practice begins with this question. Drawing on Umberto Eco’s idea of the “open work,” I approach AI as a material whose errors, accidents, and imperfections leave space for interpretation. Rather than pursuing a single ideal of algorithmic beauty, I explore how these unpredictable moments might open up alternative aesthetic possibilities.
<MAUNAKEA>, Urbanbreak, 2026
<Art Alive>, Dead End Gallery, NL, 2025
<IGNITE: NUANCE>, GArtience, 2025
How?
IPAdapter Plus provides image-to-image prompting with prepared reference images, while ControlNet QRCode introduces visual complexity into the animation and AnimateLCM accelerates rendering.
2024-2026
Invited Exhibitions
<Gallery Fold>, Samsung Galaxy, 2026
<Art After AI>, Paso Art Center, 2026
<IGNITE>, G-Artience, 2025
<Art in Life, Life in Art 2>, Daelim Museum, 2025-2026
<Art Alive>, Dead End AI Gallery, 2025
<Ceci n’est pas de l’IA>, Capital-C, 2024
Awards
<Mistake Makes Meaning: The Future of Generative AI>
Grand Prize (1st), G-Artience Technology Startup & Next-Generation Innovation Competition, Korea, 2025
Featured
.nederlandsdagblad / De Groene Amsterdammer (Dutch weekly magazine) / Woman Times KR