For the third edition of the Human AI Art Award, 33 international artists were nominated by a jury, 28 of whom applied for the prize. Christopher Kulendran Thomas received two nominations, one from Adrian Notz, curator and former director of the Cabaret Voltaire, and the other from Noam Segal, curator at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York.
For the 2026 Human AI Art Award, Christopher Kulendran Thomas has adapted his video installation 'Peace Core' into a new spatial configuration for the presentation in the Human AI Art Space. 'Peace Core (surround)' is an immersive video work of infinite duration that continually auto-edits American television footage first broadcast in the moments before the world-changing events of September 11, 2001. The constellation of screens streams this footage endlessly remixed and re-edited in real time by an AI algorithm trained on the compositional methods of vaporwave music and the editing style of early corecore videos on TikTok in which seemingly arbitrary music and videos are combined for emotional affect.
The Jury for the Human AI Art Award 2026:
Prof. Sarah Cook (Professor of Museum Studies in Information Studies, University of Glasgow / Curator), Guillaume Désanges (President Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Simon Denny (Artist), Keyna Eleison (Curator, Writer, Researcher, heir of the Griot tradition and Shaman), Dr. Claudia Emmert (Director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn) and Antje Hundhausen (Vice President Brand Experience, Deutsche Telekom).
The Nomination Jury for the Human AI Art Award 2026:
Sungah Serena Choo (curator, previously curator at the Leeum Art Museum, Seoul, as well as the Asia Culture Center and Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea), Fabiola Garza Talavera (curator, until 2026 chief curator at Alameda Art Laboratory, Mexico City), Nicolas Gourault (artist and filmmaker, winner of the Human AI Art Award 2025), Oulimata Gueye (Senegalese/French critic, curator), Marie Lechner (curator, scientist), Monika Łuszczak-Skiba (digital curator, Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland), Prof. Dr. Chus Martínez (curator, head of the IAGN institute at the Basel School of Design and Art FHNW, director of the exhibition space Der Tank), Adrian Notz (curator, director of Cabaret Voltaire until 2019, curator of the Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara in 2023), Noam Segal (LG Electronics curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York), Angelique Spaninks (director of MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven), Julia Stoschek (collector, founder of the Julia Stoschek Foundation)
Peace Core (surround), 2026
Multi-channel video (colour, sound, unlimited duration), custom software and hardware
In collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann
'Peace Core' was originally commissioned in 2024 by Wiels (Brussels), Artspace (Sydney), and FACT (Liverpool).
