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Nov 19, 2024

The Algorithmic Sublime: Noise, Memory, and AI

Nov 19, 2024

A seminar on the Algorithmic Sublime delivered at the New School for Social Research, NYC, in November 2024.

Nov 19, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

Sounds Like Music: Toward a Multi-Modal Media Theory of Gaussian Pop

Oct 26, 2024

Comments from a seminar on Gaussian Pop and AI music at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Oct 26, 2024

Aug 23, 2024

A Filter in the Shape of Us (2024)

Aug 23, 2024

Part of a series of short meditations on compression algorithms.

Aug 23, 2024

Aug 10, 2024

Moth Glitch (2024)

Aug 10, 2024

An homage to experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage pairs AI-generated noise with moths made of data.

Aug 10, 2024

Aug 3, 2024

Music for Generated Metronome (2024)

Aug 3, 2024

Exploring the compression of time within the latent space of generated AI video & sound models.

Aug 3, 2024

Jul 17, 2024

The Ghost Stays In the Picture

Jul 17, 2024

What remains when archives become datasets? Written for my Flickr Foundation Research Fellowship, these pieces look at archives as AI infrastructure and the ways the past “haunts” generated images as a result.

Jul 17, 2024

May 20, 2024

Reverse Diffusion: Chance vs Prediction (2024)

May 20, 2024

What if we created a diffusion model that ran on pure chance, instead of data-driven constraints?

May 20, 2024

Apr 10, 2024

Because of You (2024)

Apr 10, 2024

Exploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.

Apr 10, 2024

Jan 4, 2024

SWIM (2024)

Jan 4, 2024

A video installation piece about AI, archives, training data, and memory.

Jan 4, 2024

Interviews

Cybernetic Forests

Apr 16, 2023

Sound in the Shape of Electricity

Apr 16, 2023

An interview with Dogbotic's Kirk Pearson on Analog Electronics and DIY Generativity.

Apr 16, 2023

Dec 11, 2022

The Intimacies of Mechanical Things

Dec 11, 2022

A conversation with sound artist and writer Bani Haykal, exploring human-machine intimacies through the media of interfaces, poetry, and sound.

Dec 11, 2022

Nov 27, 2022

Where Does the World Happen?

Nov 27, 2022

A conversation about mushrooms, post-human systems design, extractive capitalism and what lays beyond.

Nov 27, 2022

Nov 5, 2021

Imagining an Australian Approach to AI

Nov 5, 2021

Watch the Video Delivered for Prof. Ellen Broad’s Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote, “Redesigning Artificial Intelligence From Australia Out,” for Melbourne Design Week 2021.

Nov 5, 2021

May 14, 2021

Architectures of Violence: an Interview with Caroline Sinders

May 14, 2021

An interview with the artist and researcher Caroline Sinders, whose work examines the role of mainstream platforms in supporting extremist online content.

May 14, 2021

Feb 3, 2020

Design + Robots: An Interview with AATB

Feb 3, 2020

Swiss designers AATB bring a sense of playfulness to robotics, exploring creative applications that take machines out of the factory.

Feb 3, 2020

Apr 4, 2018

Transcending Debt: Meet the Feminist Economics Department

Apr 4, 2018

An interview with Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department.

Apr 4, 2018

May 4, 2017

!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art is a Hack

May 4, 2017

An interview with Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo of !Mediengruppe Bitnik.

May 4, 2017

Selected Artwork Archive

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Oct 3, 2023

Structured Missingness (2023)

Oct 3, 2023

Experiments in structures of absence, bridging analog and digital diffusion.

Oct 3, 2023

Feb 16, 2023

Sensual Noise (2023)

Feb 16, 2023

Sensitive Noise is a video work made from AI generated abstractions that were identified as suggestive content and blurred by Stable Diffusion’s content moderation system.

Feb 16, 2023