Synthaesthetic Art: Human-Machine Creative Collaboration

Synthaesthetic Art is a human-machine collaborative framework combining live perception, generative AI, and robotic execution. Presented as a live installation at the Super AI Conference 2025, the system captured portraits of attendees, transformed them into stylised caricatures using a diffusion model that was fine-tuned on artist-in-residence Ivy Chen's works, and rendered them on canvas with acrylic paint via a robotic arm. Unlike conventional AI-driven art systems, our Synthaesthetic Art system was designed to preserve and amplify artist authorship Artist authorship is preserved through stylistic training, selective curation, and real-time control. This work introduces the conceptual foundations of Synthaesthetic Art and explores how hybrid creativity can expand agency, re-frame authorship, and deepen emotional expression through machine augmentation. Requests for name changes in the electronic proceedings will be accepted with no questions asked. However name changes may cause bibliographic tracking issues. Authors are asked to consider this carefully and discuss it with their co-authors prior to requesting a name change in the electronic proceedings. Use the "Report an Issue" link to request a name change. Do not remove: This comment is monitored to verify that the site is working properly