AIC Aesthetic Intelligence Circle
Participants gathered together during an AIC session.

About

A gathering space for AI, creativity, taste, and self-expression.

Aesthetic Intelligence Circle (AIC) hosts small-group AI art workshops at Gallery House in Menlo Park, California. Create, reflect, and share with people from across the Bay Area.

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Why AIC Exists

Judgment in the age of abundance

AI can generate endlessly. What becomes scarce is not output, but the ability to see, choose, and decide what is worth keeping.

A new creative language

Art has always evolved with new tools. AIC explores AI as a medium for images, stories, symbols, and self-expression.

A space for meaning

For many of us, work can become repetitive and detached from personal meaning. AIC creates a space to reflect, create, and ask what matters.

Who It's For

AIC is for curious people across technology, art, design, research, and everyday life who want to use AI as a creative medium: to make images, explore ideas, and think more deeply about identity, imagination, and what matters to them.

From the Founder

Linli Wang in conversation during an AIC gathering.

Founded in 2025 by Linli Wang, AIC grew from a personal search for meaning across engineering, art, work, and life.

Along the way, I realized that art wasn't simply about creating beautiful things. It changed the way I observe, question, and think. AIC is my way of creating that same experience for others.

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Our Home

Gallery House mark.

Gallery House

Menlo Park, CA

Founded in 1958, Gallery House is one of the Bay Area's longest-running artist collectives. Since AIC's second gathering, it has become a home for conversations around AI, art, and human creativity.

We're especially grateful to Peter J. Koltai, Chair of Gallery House, artist, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, whose early belief in AIC and continued support have helped shape this community.

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Gatherings

The Circle in Progress

Next gathering

Escape the Everyday creative mini retreat poster with abstract cream, green, and peach brushstrokes.

Creative Mini Retreat: Escape the Everyday

November 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM–8:30 PM PST · Gallery House, Menlo Park

Breathwork, meditation, AI art, human connection

Step away from everyday noise for an evening of guided breathwork, meditation, and AI art. Turn your reflections into images, contribute to a collective artwork, and connect with others. No meditation, art, or AI experience needed.

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Past

Participants seated together in a large circle at Gallery House during the sixth AIC gathering.
Gathering 06

AIC #6 — See the World Through Your Pet’s Eyes

October 8, 2026 · Gallery House, Menlo Park

World models, perception, empathy, AI worldbuilding

A creative workshop exploring a pet’s senses and perspective, using AI to build an explorable 3D world and reflect on how another mind might experience it.

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Whose World Are We Modeling? workshop handout alongside dog, cat, bird, and rabbit perspective cards. A speaker smiling and sharing with participants seated in a circle at the sixth AIC gathering.
Participants sharing ideas in a circle at Gallery House during the fifth AIC gathering.
Gathering 05

AIC #5 — Design a Place You Wish Existed

September 10, 2026 · Gallery House, Menlo Park

Imagination, space, feeling, AI worldbuilding

A creative workshop about imagining a room, refuge, public space, or environment you wish existed, bringing it to life with AI, and sharing the story behind it.

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A participant showing an AI-created world on her phone during the fifth AIC gathering. Participants chatting and sharing a moment together at the fifth AIC gathering.
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Participants seated in a circle during the fourth AIC gathering at Gallery House.
Gathering 04

AIC #4 — The Faceless Selfie

June 25, 2026 · Gallery House, Menlo Park

Experiment: identity, symbols, AI co-creation

A small-group workshop exploring self-portraiture beyond the face, using AI, writing, and conversation to translate memory, objects, and inner life into image.

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Worksheets and prompts prepared for the fourth AIC gathering. A participant sharing her faceless selfie during the fourth AIC gathering.
Participants reflecting during the third AIC gathering workshop.
Gathering 03

AIC #3 — Designing an Outfit with AI

January 22, 2026 · Gallery House

Shift: hands-on, structured, judgment in practice

A hands-on experiment using fashion design to explore taste, decision-making, and AI as a thinking partner.

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Reference materials laid out for the third AIC gathering. Participants sketching and thinking during the third AIC gathering.
Participants seated in discussion inside Gallery House during AIC's second gathering.
Gathering 02

Aesthetic Intelligence Circle #2 — The Art of Taste and Creation

November 13, 2025 · Gallery House, Menlo Park

Iteration: salon, dialogue, taste as intelligence

An intimate evening around taste, creativity, and computation, exploring how aesthetic intuition shapes art, AI, and design.

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Group portrait from the second AIC gathering at Gallery House. Participants talking in the gallery during the second AIC gathering.
Participants sitting in a circle by the water during AIC's first gathering.
Gathering 01

Aesthetic Intelligence Circle

October 12, 2025 · Shoreline Lake, Mountain View

Origin: outdoors, reflective, conversation-led

A calm Sunday morning gathering exploring beauty, perception, and what it means to design beautifully in an age of AI.

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Picnic setup by the lake for the first AIC gathering. A participant by the water during the first AIC gathering.

Journal

Writing from AIC

Essays and illustrated guides shaped by gatherings, creative practice, and the questions we explore together.

Why I Started AIC

AI can generate endlessly. It still cannot tell us what matters.

Essay 01

By Linli Wang

The Faceless Selfie

In a world of abundant images, meaning may become the scarcest creative resource.

Essay 02

By Linli Wang

What a Place Makes Possible

A place worth creating may be one where the life we want takes a little less effort to live.

Essay 03

By Linli Wang

Whose World Are We Modeling?

Three illustrated pages on world models, animal perspectives, and creating an explorable world.

Illustrated Guide · AIC #6

By Linli Wang

Get Involved

Let’s create something together.

Collaborate with AIC, or stay close to what’s next.

Let’s talk.

Co-host a gathering, sponsor AIC, or volunteer. A few lines are enough to start a conversation.

I’d like to…

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