Dariusz Gross

AI Artist & Machine Learning Expert

teaching machines to sculpt. From classical sculpture to machine learning — Active Absence, datasculpting, and the Gross Werkstatt line since 1920.

original works research @Gross_sculptor

move cursor — datasculpt the dust

01 — about

AI Artist & DATAsculptor

Dariusz Gross works between sculpture and machine learning. Trained at the academies of Kraków, Gdańsk and Düsseldorf, he coined datasculpting as practice: form carved from data rather than stone. Recent research develops Active Absence and Datasculptor's Razor — methods that treat archival voids and missing referents as evidence, not errors to fill.

education

Academy of Fine Arts Kraków
Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

grant / recognition

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montréal
Founding member, AIArtist.org — Top 25 AI Artists of 2019
ResearchGate — artistic research

Datasculpting

The first act of machine learning as sculpture. Models as chisels; weights as grain. Data is the silent stone.

Active Absence

Epistemological method: study voids, archival silences and erased referents instead of rushing to restore them.

Artistic immortality

Encode a lifetime of gesture so creativity continues beyond the body — not as copy, as new work.

02 — artistic research

Active Absence & Datasculptor's Razor

Recent work inverts the impulse to generate more. Gross maps voids — cultural, archival, filial — and builds methods that treat missingness as evidence.

2025–26

Datasculptor's Razor

Active Absence as epistemological method in artistic research — inverting classical parsimony so absence is generative evidence.

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2025

Leschnitz Laboratory of Absence

Atlas of structural voids in Leśnica / Leschnitz, Upper Silesia. Non-intervention and ML void detection over cultural erasure.

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2019–

#myFATHERintheCloud.ai

Machine learning trained on Siegfried Gross's sacral sculpture so artistic knowledge can keep creating after the body ends.

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2024

Landscriptum

Dictionary of datasculpting — lexicon at the intersection of art and machine learning.

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“Artificial intelligence is not the Holy Grail, but another tool. Like my father's chisel.”

— Dariusz Gross

“I want to ensure my father's immortality… so that his lack of a body will not interfere with his continued creativity.”

— #myFATHERintheCloud.ai

“Should absence be restored, or studied?”

— Leschnitz Laboratory of Absence

“His knowledge got lost along with his death. I intend to retrieve it and keep it alive — encoded in a single mathematical equation.”

— On artistic immortality

Sculptural work from the Gross lineage — documentation

documentation · Gross Werkstatt / myFather research

03 — #myFATHERintheCloud.ai

Artistic immortality beyond the body

After Siegfried Gross died, his son set out to retrieve what death erased: a lifetime of sculptural knowledge. Machine learning becomes the medium of filial duty — training on Madonnas, angels and workshop motion so new works can still emerge after the father.

“I will just place a tool in its hand. And I will leave it to do what it wants with it, just as my father did with me.”