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The project Kunstens co-pilot investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integrated into and reshapes artistic production when the technology enters the expanded studio of contemporary art. Drawing on a process-ecological and media-aesthetic framework, the project approaches AI not primarily as a tool, but as an epistemic, infrastructural, and operational dimension within complex production environments. Through qualitative case studies of three Norwegian and one international artwork, the project combines close analysis of artworks, artist interviews, and examination of process documentation to generate empirical insight into how AI affects perception, materiality, decision-making, and collaboration in contemporary artistic practice. The project develops a conceptual framework for understanding AI as part of eco-operational production ecologies and contributes new knowledge relevant to both the art and cultural field and to cultural policy debates concerning funding schemes, copyright, and artists’ economic conditions in an AI-driven context.

The project is financed by Arts Council Norway