For Yoon Seok-kwan, art emerges from creative tension with AI

Artificial intelligence can generate polished images in seconds. For Yoon Seok-kwan, better known as “AI artist” Keepkwan, that is where the real creative process starts. Yoon uses AI to reimagine Korean traditions in forms that go beyond the digital screen — from wearable interpretations of hanbok to visual works inspired by scent. His process is less about getting AI to produce a finished image than about seeing what he can do with what the technology gives him. “AI can make something visually