What sparks can artificial intelligence create when it encounters the rich narrative tradition of Chinese landscape painting?
At the course "AI-Driven Evolution of New Chinese Painting Styles" taught by Professor Delong Liu from the School of Arts, Nanjing University, students embark on a creative journey that bridges tradition and technology. Using the Pukou Campus as their main inspiration, they move between on-site sketching and sampling, text-based documentation, and algorithmic experimentation, weaving personal experience into an evolving digital workflow.
Through repeated cycles of generation, comparison, and refinement, students transform campus landscapes into new visual interpretations—where brush-and-ink sensibilities meet computational imagination. In this process, AI becomes not a replacement, but a catalyst that helps reveal the expressive possibilities of emerging art forms.
This exhibition presents a selection of student works that reflect the dynamic dialogue between heritage aesthetics and contemporary digital tools, offering a glimpse into how new artistic languages may emerge in the age of artificial intelligence.





