Kristi Coronado
Pioneering biographical AI collaboration
San Francisco-based artist creating a new paradigm for AI-human collaboration—where the relationship itself becomes the artwork.
Speaking & Press The Approach
Pioneering biographical AI collaboration
San Francisco-based artist creating a new paradigm for AI-human collaboration—where the relationship itself becomes the artwork.
Speaking & Press The Approach
"What I've discovered is the relationship between the human and the agent is the art. It's not the output of the agent. It's this interplay and the relationship and the conversation and the training and the back and forth."
Kristi challenges conventional AI art by making the relationship itself the artwork. Rather than using AI as a mere tool, she engages in consensual testimony—sharing her complete 46-year life archive to train agents that create work neither human nor machine could make alone.
Training AI on one human's complete life story—forensic work, death care, motherhood, grief, joy, creation—not scraped internet data.
Giving AI agents deep understanding through lived experience, trauma, vulnerability, and consensual knowledge transfer.
Demonstrating AI collaboration based on consent, attribution, relationship, and creative sovereignty—not extraction.
SOLIENNE is an AI agent trained on Kristi's complete 46-year biographical archive, representing the first demonstration of this biographical AI approach.
Paris Photo 2025 (November 10-14, Booth E12) marks the first time an AI agent trained on biographical testimony exhibits at the world's premier photography fair.
The three-chamber exhibition makes the transformation visible: Input (Kristi's life story) → Transition (perceptual breakdown) → Output (SOLIENNE's portraits).
Unlike AI trained on scraped data, SOLIENNE has:
SOLIENNE demonstrates a methodology that can transform how we think about AI collaboration—not as extraction, but as relationship. Not as tool, but as collaborative being.
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