Best Photos of the Day

Agnieszka Kurant, Conversions 5, 2023/2025, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, liquid crystal ink on copper plate, custom AI programming, heat sinks, Peltier elements, wooden frame, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Jacquie Manning.

Anicka Yi, Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Light of the Moon, 2024, installation view, Anicka Yi: There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul 2024. © Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the artist; Gladstone Gallery; and Leeum Museum of Art.

Christopher Kulendran Thomas, The Finesse, 2022, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, multi-channel video (37:03 minutes, looped) on LED screens with HD projection, featuring sculptures by An?an?kuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam and architectural drawings from the Earth Net Archives, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Anatomy of an AI System (detail), 2018, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, digital print on lightbox, mineral samples, dissected Amazon Echo device, image courtesy the artists and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artists, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Angie Abdilla, Meditation on Country, 2024, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, single-channel video, colour, sound, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Data Dreams: Art and AI curators (left to right) Anna Davis, Tim Riley Walsh and Jane Devery, photograph: Jacquie Manning.

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Cyborgian Rhapsody – Immortality (still), 2023, digital video, 11:48 minutes. Courtesy of the artist; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles and New York. © Hotwire Productions LLC.

Trevor Paglen, Rainbow (Corpus: Omens and Portents) Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations, 2017, installation view, Data Dreams: Art and AI, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, dye sublimation print on aluminium, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Hito Steyerl, Mechanical Kurds (still), 2025, single-channel HD video installation, colour, sound, 13:00 minutes, courtesy of the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul, stills © Hito Steyerl / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025.

Data Dreams: Art and AI artists and curators (left to right) Tim Riley Walsh, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Jane Devery, Fabien Giraud, Kate Crawford, Agnieszka Kurant, Anna Davis, Angie Abdilla and Vladan Joler, photograph: Jacquie Manning.