AI \& ART Newsletter - June 2025

🎨 Featured Exhibitions \& Galleries

CVPR AI Art Gallery 2025 - Nashville

The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference showcased its second annual AI Art Gallery from June 13-15, 2025, at the Music City Center in Nashville¹². This prestigious exhibition featured over 100 curated artworks, with more than 70 displayed on-site and the remainder available online at thecvf-art.com³. The gallery highlighted innovative works using computer vision techniques such as GANs, diffusion models, and NeRF, exploring themes of human-machine collaboration and critical perspectives on AI technology¹².

Notable premieres included “Atlas of Perception,” which illuminated the “visual vocabulary” of vision models by exploring neural network latent spaces, and “SWIM,” a nine-minute film layering archival footage with AI-generated glitches as a meditation on diffusion model training processes³.

IEEE AIART Gallery 2025 - Nantes

The 7th IEEE AIART Workshop and Gallery took place from June 30 to July 4, 2025, at La Cité des Congrès de Nantes, France⁴⁵. Themed “Intelligence Reimagined: The Convergence of Art and AI,” this international showcase featured AI-generated and AI-assisted artworks across multiple formats including paintings, interactive installations, video, music, and literature⁵⁶.

VRHAM! 2025 Digital Art Biennale - Hamburg

Running from June 11-18, 2025, in Hamburg’s Oberhafen/Hafencity district, VRHAM! 2025 highlighted the diversity of human-machine interaction through immersive art⁷. The biennale featured 12 international artist teams from eight countries, including Chinese-Canadian artist Sougwen Chung, who uses programmed robots to create paintings, and the London-based collective Random International, exploring the intersection of photography and artificial intelligence⁷.

🚀 Technology Developments \& Partnerships

Midjourney’s Video Generation Launch

Midjourney announced its highly anticipated native video generation tool, with a potential release date set for June 2025⁸. The platform is currently fine-tuning 24 distinct video settings designed to cater to different genres and styles of content, marking a significant leap from static image generation to animated visual storytelling⁸.

RunwayML and AMC Networks Partnership

On June 5, 2025, RunwayML announced a strategic partnership with AMC Networks to integrate AI-powered creative tools into the network’s content production pipeline⁹. The collaboration includes AI-assisted previsualization, automated visual effects, dynamic promotional material generation, and voice synthesis capabilities for dubbing and localization⁹.

Stability AI and Endless Web3 Integration

Endless Web3 Genesis Cloud announced on June 3, 2025, its integration with Stability AI’s cutting-edge image generation capabilities, leveraging Stable Diffusion 3.5 and a custom Sketch-to-Image workflow¹⁰. This partnership aims to accelerate decentralized AI adoption and lower barriers to AI application development¹⁰.

📰 Industry News \& Controversies

Timbaland’s AI Music Venture

Producer Timbaland launched Stage Zero, a new AI-focused entertainment company, introducing TaTa, the first AI-generated “artist” created using the Suno platform¹¹. The venture aims to pioneer “A-pop” (artificial pop) as a new genre, though it has faced criticism from industry professionals who argue it threatens human creativity and expression¹¹.

Getty Images vs. Stability AI Legal Battle

The landmark copyright lawsuit between Getty Images and Stability AI began at London’s High Court on June 9, 2025¹². Getty accuses Stability AI of using millions of its copyrighted images to train the Stable Diffusion system without permission, while Stability AI contests the allegations, framing the dispute as one about technological progress and freedom of expression¹².

AI Art Market Analysis

Arte, the Franco-German TV channel, broadcast the documentary “AI and the Art Market” on June 15, 2025, featuring analysis by Artprice and Perplexity Labs¹³. The documentary explored how AI is transforming art market dynamics, with Artprice’s proprietary Intuitive Art Market® AI demonstrating breakthrough capabilities in artwork valuation and trend prediction¹³.

🎭 Artist Spotlights \& Exhibitions

David Rokeby at RPI

Digital art pioneer David Rokeby presented “Surfing the Manifold: Adventures in Latent Space” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on June 4, 2025¹⁴. The presentation featured groundbreaking demonstrations exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and art, offering immersive experiences that brought AI concepts to life beyond code¹⁴.

London Gallery Weekend Digital Art Focus

London Gallery Weekend 2025 showcased significant digital art exhibitions, highlighting the “de-siloing” of digital art where artists like Beeple, Tyler Hobbs, and Robert Alice demonstrated the porous boundaries between digital and physical formats¹⁵. The event coincided with the first South By Southwest London festival, emphasizing London’s position as a digital art capital¹⁵.

“A Glimpse into American AI Art” Online Exhibition

An online exhibition launched on June 16, 2025, featuring up to 25 AI-assisted artists on the Artsy platform¹⁶. The exhibition, running through August 15, 2025, aims to enable viewers to engage with AI-generated art and decide for themselves whether AI has value in artistic practice¹⁶.

🔧 New AI Tools for Artists

Latest AI Creative Tools

Seven essential AI tools for digital artists in 2025 include Adobe Firefly with enhanced Photoshop integration, Procreate Dreams with AI Assist for iPad users, Runway ML Gen-3 for video generation, DALL-E 4o with improved detail and realism, Artbreeder for character design, Leonardo.Ai for game asset creation, and Clip Studio Paint AI plugins for workflow automation¹⁷.

Colle AI Platform Enhancements

Singapore-based Colle AI unveiled significant updates to its NFT creation platform on June 4, 2025, introducing advanced personalization workflows that allow artists to customize traits, visuals, and metadata through an intuitive interface¹⁴. The platform’s adaptive AI engine ensures compatibility across multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain¹⁴.

🌟 Looking Ahead

Upcoming Dataland Museum

Refik Anadol Studio announced plans for the world’s first AI art museum, Dataland, set to open in 2025 at the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA development in downtown Los Angeles¹⁸¹⁹. The museum will showcase large-scale AI artworks and nature-focused datasets, featuring the Large Nature Model and AI-powered multi-sensory experiences¹⁹.

Research Findings on AI Art Market Impact

A Stanford Graduate School of Business study revealed that when AI-generated art enters markets, total image sales increase by 39%, but purchases of human-created art decline significantly²⁰. The research found that AI images serve as direct substitutes for human-created works, leading to a 23% drop in non-AI artists on platforms while improving overall quality and variety²⁰.