AS ______ AS POSSIBLE

Hanwha x Anthropic Art Commission 2026 explores contemporary questions surrounding artificial intelligence through artistic perspectives and practices. Taking two key areas of AI research—interpretability, which seeks to understand how AI systems work, and alignment, which seeks to ensure that AI systems behave in accordance with human intentions and values—as its points of departure, the project invites artists to reconsider these questions through their own artistic methodologies.

Five participating artists and collectives—MinOhrichar, Inhwa Yeom, Ubac Studio, Kahee Jeong, and Mirim Chu—present newly commissioned works that extend and reconfigure their ongoing artistic practices. Their works unfold across various spaces within Centre Pompidou Hanwha, opening up different ways of engaging with the conditions, possibilities, and uncertainties of artificial intelligence.

We continually set goals for technology: to be as fast as possible, as accurate as possible, as efficient as possible, as safe as possible, and as closely aligned with human intentions as possible. Yet as technological systems become increasingly complex, understanding what actually happens within them becomes more difficult. Is achieving a desired outcome the same as understanding how that outcome was produced?

The participating artists explore the gap between the conditions humans establish for technology and the ways technological systems interpret and respond to them. What do we see and sense? What do we come to regard as normal or efficient? Attending to uncertain states, unexpected deviations, and possibilities that emerge before a definitive outcome is reached, each artist approaches these questions through a distinct artistic language and methodology.

What might fill the blank in the exhibition title, AS __________ AS POSSIBLE?

As accurate as possible?
As understandable as possible?
As aligned as possible?
As good as possible?

While AI research seeks to make technological systems more intelligible and aligned with human intentions, artistic practice opens up space to question the assumptions, uncertainties, and possibilities that such pursuits entail. Rather than offering definitive answers, the exhibition invites us to consider what might emerge from the gaps between intention and interpretation, expectation and outcome. Perhaps it is precisely within these gaps that new possibilities begin.

The works presented in this exhibition were newly commissioned as part of Hanwha x Anthropic Art Commission 2026, with generous support from Anthropic.

Hosted & Organized by Hanwha Foundation of Culture

Supported by Anthropic

Curated by Jieun Seo, Senior Curator, Centre Pompidou Hanwha