Jury Members
The Artiver AI Art Awards are guided by a distinguished panel of industry experts who bring diverse perspectives in AI-powered art, digital design, creative storytelling, and emerging technologies. Our jury is carefully selected each year to ensure a wide range of expertise and viewpoints. These leaders from top global organizations and the art community are united by a common mission: to identify and celebrate the most groundbreaking and impactful AI-driven artistic creations of today.

Jack So
Jack So is a contemporary artist and British Hong Konger who explores identity, belonging, and cultural heritage through diverse mediums, including digital 3D art, conceptual pieces, photography, and AI-generated works. His award-winning piece Hongkonger earned First Place at the Hong Kong Liberty Art Prize in 2023, and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Hong Kong Liberty Art Prize 2023 Taipei Exhibition in Taiwan, the Leamington Open 2024 Exhibition in the UK, The PATH Exhibition at Palazzo Pisani-Revedin in Venice, Italy, and The Dalí’s Impressionism Art Contest Exhibition online by The Dalí Museum in the USA. Through his art, So delves into themes of displacement and authenticity, creating compelling works that resonate across cultures.

Dieter Deconinck
Dieter Deconinck (DDKing) is a Belgian AI artist celebrated for his emotionally charged, symbol-rich creations that explore themes like love, resilience, equality, and the balance between humanity and nature. His work has been showcased during Amsterdam Museum Night, where it was prominently displayed in a metro station, and he was honored with the prestigious title of “Leading Creator 2024.” Combining hyper-realism with conceptual depth, DDKing’s art invites profound reflection and connection, resonating with audiences worldwide.

Katja Marciniec
Katja Marciniec is a German cultural scientist who studies diverse communication pathways in visual media, including analog and digital photography as well as AI-generated works. In her works, she integrates current, historical, and literary references alongside well-known surrealist elements of the fantastically absurd. In addition to classical literary themes and pop cultural allusions, she prefers to focus on topics such as climate change and environmental protection, which she transforms into new visual forms through deconstruction and alienation. In 2024, she received an international audience award for her AI series 'Wearable Dreams.' Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions. Katja Marciniec is a member of the artist group AlgoBrush, which deals with AI-Art as an art form of postmodernism. Besides her creative endeavors, she loves rainy days, dark chocolate, and the music of the band Joy Division.

Hao-Yun Chi
Hao-Yun Chi is a visionary architectural designer and academic pioneer at the forefront of merging design with cutting-edge technology. Holding a Ph.D. in architecture and having served as a visiting scholar at UCLA, Chi specializes in leveraging Extended Reality (XR), digital twin systems, and AI to drive innovation in sustainable design. Renowned for his groundbreaking research and award-winning design projects, Chi has received global accolades. As a dedicated mentor and innovator, he inspires the next generation of architectural designers while advancing transformative solutions for a sustainable and technologically integrated future.

Eunice Chen
Eunice Chen is an independent curator and researcher based in New York City. Her curatorial practice focuses on mobility and migration in the digital age. She has independently curated multiple solo and group exhibitions in New York with support from the SVA Alumni Society, Rockella Space, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her virtual curatorial proposal has been exhibited in Beijing. Additionally, she has contributed to the curation of triennials in Norway, China, and the United States.

Julia Hsia
Julia Hsia is a multidisciplinary artist now based in New York City, focusing on performative art. She has worked and collaborated with artists to explore the application of AI in various art aspects. Hsia had her solo exhibition in the city and was one of the participants in the 2023 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program by the New York Foundation for the Arts.