Oonaode
“Could we be more honest, push further, transform AI art into something more tangible?”
The End of 2025 AI Art Debate Issue
by Eliza @perfectagala
Issue 14 of aithena. art magazine is curated and written by @perfectagala
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Oona Ode – @oonaode is a Canadian hybrid artist working where the personal fractures into the uncanny. Through AI, collage, sculpture, photography, and drawing, she builds recursive visual mythologies shaped by lived experience and the surreal domestic world.
This issue of aithena mag centers the statement of @kindbloop to cease creating ai art, to generate a year end debate on the state of AI art. All the comments were posted under his final post and are published here, unedited. I would love to hear your thoughts and will publish them in a future issue.
Rest fair Bloop. Your page has been a pillar for me, a measure against which I have tested my art and my success. I will miss your posts.
It’s been three years and I’m sad to see you go. You have made some of my favourite images, the kind that made me stop and ask how?
We all reflect on what you have left on the table. We all wrestle with the same questions: Is this art? Is it worth my time? Am I doing something? For some of us, the answer is yes. There is art here, a sliver among the slop.
For me, the art lives in the process, in the input, and in the artist’s eye. It is knowing the moment to stop, sensing when something is not right. That is artistic intuition, no matter the medium. Some have it and some do not.
Rather than reflecting on theft, and let’s be fair, most of us have made our peace with that, I wish you had left with a challenge. One that asked the community to look harder at our work. Are we resting on our laurels? Are we stuck in our status quo? Could we be more honest, push further, transform AI art into something more tangible?
