Drawing the Line

As AI continues to evolve and affect life in myriad ways, we speak to Hong Kong artists who use machine learning to create art that retraces what it means to be human

By Zabrina Lo

Hong Kong digital artist Victor Wong Wang-tat, who practises traditional ink art as a hobby, was proud to show his work to his fellow practitioners at one of Hong Kong Ink Painting Society’s gatherings. A sturdy mountain, made up of steady, and powerful brushstrokes, sits in the centre of the rice paper; the changing black and grey gradation of the ink lines standing in stark contrast to the blank white space to create an ethereal landscape as if clouds are floating above the valleys. Wong recalls the Ink Painting Society chairman’s immediate puzzlement: “This painting shows the level of experience and skill that a senior painter has, but strangely the artist seems to paint far more steadily than most of us older artists are capable of now.” The older man…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023

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