Lugano AI Week 2025: Creating with AI Without Losing Artistic Soul, Speaker

Lugano AI Week 2025, one of Switzerland's premier events dedicated to artificial intelligence and its applications across industries, brought together leading innovators, researchers, and creators to explore the transformative impact of AI on society and culture.

As a featured speaker, Yuri Catania presented "Creating with AI, Not Being Created by AI: Maintaining Artistic Soul While Embracing the Most Powerful Tool Ever Existed" on December 1st, 2025 at 4:30-5:00 PM, sharing insights on the delicate balance between technological innovation and human creativity.

The presentation was accompanied by two significant works showcased at the event, exemplifying the artist's exploration of the intersection between nature, technology, and human presence in the universe.

Astronaut Secret Garden Odyssey (2025) made its debut, a life-size (190 cm) mixed media sculpture created through a hybrid process combining artificial intelligence, digital modeling, and 3D printing, realized in collaboration with Tipack Group SA of Agno. The work first appeared in the secret garden of CasaGalleria.ART in Rovio, where a live-streamed action painting performance transformed this technological icon into an organic presence infused with color and gesture.

The astronaut was presented alongside the monumental painting AstroGirl Champagne Supernova, together demonstrating the ability to integrate advanced technological languages with deeply human material and narrative sensibility.

Both works mark a new chapter in three-dimensional artistic research, where physical and digital converge a poetic bridge between future and roots, artificial and living.