ABSTRACT
This chapter is part of personal artistic research through which I analyse how Artificial Intelligence can create a connection between physical and virtual space in different artistic practices and how it can generate new perspectives in the process of educating the next generations. Artists have always been interested in problematising the concept of space and contemporary art involves various approaches that question how we relate to physical and virtual space. Virtual space can function as an extension of physical space. In their practices, artists create different virtual spaces that compose or recompose physical spaces in order to explore topics related to cognitive science, ethics, pop culture, or themes related to the memory of a space. This chapter proposes an analysis of how children might develop critical thinking through interaction with this type of artistic practice. The participatory nature of contemporary art can serve as a platform for informal learning through which the educational process could take place via observation, debate, and creative workshops based on the artworks displayed in the exhibition space. The use of AI is more and more common nowadays, with artists staging various dialogues between virtual and physical space through the use of AI as a connecting node. This artistic research, resulting in art objects, can shape platforms of debate in children's education by enhancing critical thinking. The technological advancement we are witnessing has the potential to enhance different analytical capacities in children’s education through exposure and interaction with AI-augmented artwork in physical and virtual space, or even at the intersection of these two.
