For Meller, these questions are the whole point. Last month, Ai-Da launched her first exhibition in Venice, to coincide with the 2022 Venice Biennale. Over five connected spaces at InParadiso gallery, she presents holographic video art, sculptures, poetry, and paintings created on-site. The reaction so far has been overwhelmingly positive. "People love the spectacle," Meller tells Dazed.

Ultimately, Conru hopes that students will be inspired to create their own works of robot-assisted art and enter the 2019 Robot Art Competition to try for some of the cash prizes awarded to creative projects that use innovative techniques like machine learning-generated images or abstract recreations of existing paintings.