The Chechen Republic is planning to host its first international festival, "Artifact — The Art of Generation," dedicated to creative work produced using artificial intelligence. Preparations for the event were discussed during a meeting of the organizing committee, as reported by the regional Artists' Union.

Creators from various countries who work with neural networks will be invited to participate. They will have the opportunity to showcase AI-generated photography, short films, and animation. The festival program will feature a competition, an exhibition, and a series of educational events.

The organizers intend to place a special emphasis on young creators and international collaboration. Another goal of the project is to demonstrate how image and video generation technologies can be applied to the preservation of historical and cultural heritage.

Ismail Denilkhanov, Chairman of the Artists' Union of the Chechen Republic and head of the project, spoke about the human role in the creation of digital works.

"A neural network can generate content infinitely, but it has nothing to say without a human—lacking taste, intent, and responsibility for the outcome. Traditional art remains a space for lived human experience, while artificial intelligence serves as an amplifier for those who have something to say," he noted.

The competition will include three categories: AI photography, short video, and animation. Submissions will be accepted from individual creators as well as creative teams of up to three people. Participants may submit up to three entries in each category.

The works will be evaluated by a professional jury, which will include artists, directors, cinematographers, actors, and photographers. In the near future, the organizers plan to send out invitations to potential contestants and festival partners.

Chechen professionals living abroad are also showing a keen interest in artificial intelligence. As a reminder, this May, programmer Isa Usmanov—a graduate of the Technical University of Munich—won the international hackathon "Voice Hack Night," held in San Francisco with the participation of OpenAI and the tech community Cerebral Valley. His team presented a concept for a mobile operating system called "Agentic OS for a Phone," in which users control smartphone functions via voice, while an AI autonomously executes multi-step tasks. The project also received the "People’s Choice Award."