A dreamlike experimental video essay using found footage, compression artifacts, and glitched AI imagery to disentangle the human mind from the metaphors of mind as applied to generative AI.
Read MoreA seminar on the Algorithmic Sublime delivered at the New School for Social Research, NYC, in November 2024.
Read MoreComments from a seminar on Gaussian Pop and AI music at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Read MoreAn homage to experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage pairs AI-generated noise with moths made of data.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreWhat if we created a diffusion model that ran on pure chance, instead of data-driven constraints?
Read MoreExploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.
Read MoreA video installation piece about AI, archives, training data, and memory.
Read MoreThe history of AI images as data analytics, and AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics.
Read MoreAn exhibition focused on the creative misuse of AI systems, presented at the world’s largest hacker convention’s AI Village.
Read MoreA short “documanifesto” on how Diffusion models work, concerns about their logic, and my attempt to resist them through creative misuse.
Read MoreA short film made using deepfake technologies and techniques. The film is a surrealist, ideological horror film narrated by a digital facsimile of Sarah Palin trained on thousands of hours of audio.
Read MoreA series of Diffusion-generated images consisting entirely of elements that AI cannot produce.
Read MoreBuilding a cybernetic mushroom synthesizer to explore design frameworks for nonhuman worlds.
Read MoreOn George Brecht, chance, and anticonceptualism in AI imagery.
Read MoreIntroducing LutteCoin, a blockchain against spectacle, created in collaboration with Şerife Wong for the Media Archeology Lab at UC Boulder & King’s College, London. The work was presented to the UN Internet Governance Forum in December 2021.
Read MoreA pre-history of 3D imaging written for Ren Gregorcic’s photogrammetry sculptures.
Read MoreThe machines that nudge us can be nudged back: Here are some ideas on how to steer them.
Read MoreThinking about the reductive role of symbols in computing, and how I tried (and failed) to transcend it by building a synthesizer out of an eagle and three satellites.
Read MoreExploring covid-19 stock photographs and their machine-generated descriptions is a surprisingly poetic task.
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