Mario Klingemann is a German artist, born in 1970 in Laatzen, Lower Saxony, who has established himself as a pioneering figure in the intersection of art and artificial intelligence. His work is characterized by the innovative use of neural networks, code, and algorithms, which he employs to explore and challenge traditional notions of creativity, culture, and perception. Klingemann's journey into the realm of digital art began in the age of the first handheld computer games, arcade machines, and home computers. As an autodidact, he taught himself computer programming in the 1980s, a skill that would later become central to his artistic practice. Despite his interest in technology and visual arts, he found no academic path that combined these passions during the late 80s. Consequently, he embarked on a career that spanned various creative industries, including advertising, graphic design, and motion graphics, before realizing that he had been an artist all along. His early professional life included internships in ad agencies, freelance graphic design in the techno-music scene, and co-founding a web-design collective. Klingemann's work in the 1990s included creating websites on the nascent World Wide Web and engaging with the techno music scene through flyer and poster design. He also co-founded coma, a collective of media artists, and was involved in the Munich FabLab, a maker space that democratizes access to creative tools and knowledge. Klingemann's artistic practice has evolved alongside breakthroughs in AI and deep learning, with his contributions at the leading edge. He is particularly interested in the human perception of art and the processes by which machines can augment or emulate these creative processes. His work often involves generative art, cybernetic aesthetics, information theory, feedback loops, pattern recognition, emergent behaviors, and cultural heritage data. One of Klingemann's most notable projects is "Memories of Passersby I," a machine installation that uses neural networks to generate an infinite stream of portraits. This work made history in March 2019 as the first autonomous AI machine to be successfully auctioned at Sotheby's. The AI in this installation was trained using thousands of portraits from the 17th to 19th centuries, and Klingemann taught it his own aesthetic preferences using a Tinder-like selection application. The result is a continuous, real-time generation of unique portraits that challenge the viewer's aesthetic and narrative expectations. Klingemann's work has been recognized with several awards, including the British Library Labs Artistic Award in 2016 and the Lumen Prize Gold Award in 2018 for his work "The Butcher's Son." He also received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2020 for his work "Appropriate Response." His tenure as Artist in Residence at Google Arts and Culture from 2015 to 2018 further cemented his status as a leading figure in AI art. His creations have been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Klingemann's work has been showcased in international art shows and has won acclaim among critics as exemplary pieces of net art. Klingemann's artistic research spans a wide range of areas, and he is driven by a desire to understand, question, and subvert the inner workings of systems of any kind. He has a deep interest in human perception and aesthetic theory, and through his work, he seeks to discover unseen beauty and unthought ideas. His approach to art involves exploring uncharted territories and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with AI, resulting in works that are both uncanny and captivating. Today, Klingemann lives in Munich, Germany, where he continues to explore the potential of AI in art. He runs a space called Dog & Pony with his girlfriend Alexandra Lukaschewitz, which serves as a creative free space between a gallery and a Wunderkammer. He is represented by Onkaos and DAM Gallery Berlin and continues to share his explorations and discoveries at design and technology conferences worldwide. His work, which often involves creatively repurposing and recombining objects and systems to reveal their hidden qualities, remains at the forefront of the AI art movement, continually challenging and expanding the boundaries of contemporary art.

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