The Prompt is an Event

On George Brecht, chance, and anticonceptualism in AI imagery.

ArtEryk SalvaggioAugust 11, 2022fluxus, prompt, dalle2, gpt2, gpt3, ai

Introducing 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.

ArtEryk SalvaggioDecember 9, 2021situationist, blockchain, governance

Imagining an Australian Approach to AI

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.

Design, Interviews, CyberneticsEryk SalvaggioNovember 5, 2021design, keynote, video

Architectures of Violence: an Interview with Caroline Sinders

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

InterviewsEryk SalvaggioMay 14, 2021internet art

What does the mouse see?

Notes and observations from the 2021 Computer Mouse Conference.

Design, CyberneticsEryk SalvaggioApril 30, 2021Computer Mouse Conference, Computer Mouse

A Total Portrait With No Omissions: Photogrammetry “at the point of a singular horizon”

A pre-history of 3D imaging written for Ren Gregorcic’s photogrammetry sculptures.

ArtEryk SalvaggioFebruary 27, 2021photogrammetry, 3D

Nobody is Always Watching You: From Big Brother to Big Data

As George Orwell's 1984 enters the public domain, how might we use that lens to explore historic relationships between truth, surveillance, and artificial intelligence technology today?

Cybernetics, bias, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioFebruary 10, 2021Orwell, surveillance, bias, wiener, cybernetics

Enter The Aviary: Time Travel With Birds and Machines

The Aviary is a cyber-physical system and sonic artwork that identifies birds from national parks, and turns data into an immersive soundscape.

Eryk SalvaggioNovember 11, 2020

The Organizing Committee: Cyborg Pop

I co-wrote an album about Cybernetic Socialist Democracy with a few AIs. There are also music videos.

Eryk SalvaggioJuly 30, 2020

Creative Strategies for Algorithmic Resistance!

The machines that nudge us can be nudged back: Here are some ideas on how to steer them.

Art, Cybernetics, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioJuly 29, 2020machine learning, resistance

The Cybernetic Forest Synthesizer

Thinking 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.

Nothing to See Here

Exploring covid-19 stock photographs and their machine-generated descriptions is a surprisingly poetic task.

Art, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioMay 3, 2020machine learning, image recognition

Who Chose the Colors of Birds? Four Lessons about Data from the History of Color

Like any other piece of data, the way we define colors — and describe the natural world — has been shaped by a series of decisions related to economics and technology.

Most Popular, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioApril 16, 2020

Design + Robots: An Interview with AATB

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

Art, Cybernetics, Design, InterviewsEryk SalvaggioFebruary 3, 2020AATB

Dying Tomorrow: 5 Questions for the Future of Death & Mourning

Takeaways from a workshop with psychologists, designers, historians, dancers, and technologists exploring ethical approaches to handling our digital afterlife.

DesignEryk SalvaggioDecember 18, 2019death, mourning, design workshops, future

This Black Woman Does Not Exist

What I Learned About Algorithmic Bias From Creating the First AI-generated faces on Wikimedia Commons.

bias, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioOctober 4, 2019bias

THE MACHINAFESTO: The Role Of Art In The Future Of AI

How a room full of artists, researchers, curators and technologists collaborated with a machine to produce a manifesto for human-computer art — and what it tells us about the future of AI, ethics, and human agency.

Editor's Picks, ArtEryk SalvaggioOctober 3, 2019art

Fluxus Ex Machina (2019)

An experiment making AI conceptual art by fine tuning the language processing model, GPT2, on a copy of the Fluxus Performance Workbook.

ArtEryk SalvaggioSeptember 18, 2019fluxus, ai

This is the House a Robot Built: Digital Fabrication & the Future of Architecture

A look behind the first inhabitable house designed by algorithms and co-built by robots.

DesignEryk SalvaggioApril 10, 2019digital fabrication, architecture, dfab

The Anxiety of Smart Cities: How Technology Moves People

Results of two design-a-thons bringing together designers, academics and the interested public in an exercise to imagine the future of transportation in smart cities.

DesignEryk SalvaggioOctober 26, 2018smart cities