Can AI create a masterpiece, or are humans the only true artists?

For most of human history, making art required a specific set of skills like holding a brush, playing an instrument, or telling a story through a lens. From charcoal on a cave wall to ancient Greek theatre and Roman frescoes in Pompeii, we worked with whatever the physical world gave us, shaping it with skills developed over a lifetime. Today, the distance between that idea and its expression is being rewritten. With artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and machine intelligence, the machine isn't just helping a human express an idea; it is capable of generating the expression itself. Can a robot write a symphony, turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece, or manufacture the human need to connect? And if a machine makes it, is it still art? In this edition of NexTech, we explore how technology changes the mediums, the experience, and the creators of art. We meet director Ali Vatansever inside VRChat to see how shooting his award-winning film LifeLike with VR lenses blurs the vanishing boundaries between cinema and virtual reality. At The Cube, new media artist Ferdi Alıcı of Ouchhh Studio fits an EEG headset to collect brainwave data, tracking delta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequencies alongside 300 AI agents, to turn real-time emotional datasets into living architectural installations and cognitive paintings.  Inside Paribu Art, media servers and real-time rendering turn visitors from passive observers into active participants. And on the musical frontier, artist Beyza Doğuç transforms room data into sound waves, while Turkish AI music platform Muzica tests whether algorithmically generated arabesque tracks can democratise creation or if the urge to connect remains exclusively human.