ARTFEED — Contemporary Art Intelligence

Gal Shahar's AI Sublime: Atmospheric Hauntings Explores Algorithmic Vision

exhibition · 2026-07-14

Gal Shahar's series 'Atmospheric Hauntings' investigates the gap between AI-generated imagery and genuine experience of the sublime. The work uses chromatic aberration, spectral blur, and dissolving contours to reveal the algorithm's interpretive limits. Shahar creates fictional natural spaces where atmosphere becomes the subject, blurring hierarchies between matter, reflection, and apparition. The series echoes J.M.W. Turner's atmospheric landscapes and Andrei Tarkovsky's film 'Stalker', transforming landscape into a mental threshold. Shahar converts the system's limitations into visual argument, positioning the viewer to complete the image from memory and emotion. The project is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument', with augmented reality and voice narrative.

Key facts

  • Gal Shahar created the series 'Atmospheric Hauntings'.
  • The series explores the distance between producing an image of an experience and truly experiencing it.
  • Shahar uses AI as a language that reveals its own structure, not as a tool for immediate impact.
  • The work features chromatic aberration, spectral blur, and dissolution of contours.
  • The series creates fictional natural spaces where atmosphere becomes the body of the work.
  • Shahar's work is compared to J.M.W. Turner's atmospheric landscapes.
  • The series also echoes Andrei Tarkovsky's film 'Stalker' in its transformation of landscape into a mental threshold.
  • The project is included in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9 'ART: it is argument'.
  • The work includes augmented reality and voice narrative.
  • The text was reviewed using AI tools.

Entities

Artists

Institutions

  • creAtIva AI Art Book
  • Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo

Sources