Tishan Hsu Is Working with AI for Paintings That Envision Human Bodies as ‘Liquid Soup’

Tishan Hsu saw the future coming as early as the 1980s, when he began producing abstract paintings with sculptural additions that looked variously like warping screens and torqued body parts. Beyond the body horror seen in David Cronenberg’s films, there wasn’t much out there that looked like Hsu’s paintings of the era. But now, with digital technology having become so fully integrated into daily life, Hsu’s paintings—both the ones produced when he started and the o