Eric Millikin is an American artist and activist based in Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia. He is known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence art, augmented and virtual reality art, conceptual art, Internet art, performance art, poetry, post-Internet art, video art, and webcomics. His work is often controversial, with political, romantic, occult, horror and black comedy themes. Awards for Millikin's artwork include the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award.

Artificial intelligence art is any visual artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as text-to-image models. AI art began to gain popularity in the mid- to late-20th century through the boom of artificial intelligence.