Eryk Salvaggio
Portfolio
Eryk Salvaggio is an artist working critically with AI-generated media, using and subverting tools to reveal the problems embedded within them. As an artist working critically with technology, his work openly acknowledges its complicity. As such, the work is created through glitching the machines, repurposing generated imagery to emphasize biases or other problems, or highlighting the image’s relationship to its social, technical, and cultural context.
Through video essays, sound art, and performance lectures, Salvaggio’s work confronts essential debates in AI, such as the politics of extraction, dehumanization, and information pollution that lay at their heart. “Many artists see AI as a tool for expanding the imagination,” Salvaggio says, “But I aim to pull the imagination out of AI, to see it for what it is.”
Salvaggio’s work informs and reflects his work in tech policy spheres; he is an artist but also a writer and researcher challenging the myths of artificial intelligence, flagging dangers such as surveillance linked to automated decision-making, and advocating for expanded data protections online. As the founder of the Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (with Caroline Sinders and Steph Maj Swanson), Salvaggio pioneered the practice of creative misuse of AI systems as a tool for revealing the biases and harms the models could create.
2025
Human Movie
2025. Digital Video, Found Footage, Glitched AI-Generated Video.
35 min.
2024. Official Selection, Experimental Film, AI International Film Festival, Los Angeles.
2024
Moth Glitch
2024. Digital Video, Glitch AI-Generated Video and Sound.
2 min.
2024. Official Selection, Light Matter Film Festival, New York, 2024.
2024. Official Selection, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Art After Dark series.
Because of You
Collaboration With Avijit Ghosh.
2024. Video EssaY, Installation. Glitched AI-Generated Video/Audio.
13 min.
2024 Winner, CVPR (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Art Competition, organized by Luba Elliott and Xavier Snelgrove.
2024. Named “Best Film Reflecting Ethical and Legal Issues in the Use of Technology” at CineTech Futures Festival.
2024. Official Selection, Clapham International Film Festival, presented to AI&Art series at the Turing Institute .
SWIM
2024. Video Art. Glitched AI Video, Manipulated Sound.
11 min.
2024. Unsound Music Festival, Krakow.
2024. Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne.
2024. Nominee, Best Artificial Intelligence Film, Cannes World Film Festival.
2024. Art After Dark series, Bunjil Place, Melbourne, Australia.
The Age of Noise
2024. Lecture Performance / Video Essay with Found Footage, Glitched
AI-generated video.
34 Min.
Performed at Unsound Music Festival, Krakow.
Premiered at Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne.
Chance Operations (for George Brecht)
2024. Software art & lecture-performance.
2024. Performance for The Taming of Chance program at Gallerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany.
The Absentees, Gaussian Pop
2024. experiments in Glitched and Self-Referential AI-Generated Audio.
35 min.
2024. Presented for seminar, Sounds Like Music, RMIT (Melbourne).
2024. Presented for workshop, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco.
2024. Presented for workshop, Music Current Festival, Dublin.
2023
Extraction
2023. Video Essay. Glitched AI Video.
3 min.
2024. Poetics of Prompting Exhibition, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven NL.
2023. Premiere, DEFCON 31.
Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise
2023. Video Essay, AI Generated Visuals.
20 min.
2024. Official Selection, Uppsala Short Film Festival Algorithmic Grotesque: Unraveling AI program.
2024. Shown with live score from Dublin Sound Lab at Music Current Festival, Dublin, Ireland.
2024. “Decoding the Black Box” exhibition, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany.
2024. Official Selection, Burano International AI Film Festival, Italy.
2024. Official Selection, Shapeshift Festival.
2023. “Adrenalin Prompt” exhibition, Forking Room, Seoul, Korea.
2023. “Artificial Intelligence” exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona.
2023. Arts Everywhere, Canada, 2023.
Sarah Palin Forever
2023. Short Film, AI-generated images and deepfake voice technology.
13 min.
2024. Official Selection, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.
2024. Official Selection, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival.
2024. Official Selection, IMMATERIAL Film Festival of Tabakalera, Spain.
2024. Named Best AI Film, Orion International Film Festival, Australia/Germany.
2024. “Decoding the Black Box” exhibition at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany.
2024. Official Selection, Burano International AI Film Festival, Italy.
2023. Official Selection, +RAIN, the first European film festival for AI-generated cinema
2023. Presented at SONAR, Spain.
2023. Official Selection, Clapham International Film Festival, London.
2023. Semi-Finalist, Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival.
2023. “Artificial Intelligence” exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona.
2023. The Wrong Biennale.
ARRG! — The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group
With Caroline Sinders and Steph Maj-Swanson.
2023. Artist-Curator. Video exhibition of artwork made with AI with the intention of glitching, hacking, or repurposing the system.
Exhibition for the AI Village of the hacker convention DEFCON 31.
Gaussian Noise, Human Hands
2023. Images made using an original method for glitching AI models.
Presented at SXSW
Presented at DEFCON 31
Outland art magazine, “How to Glitch AI.”
Sensual Noise
2023. Video Art, Glitched & Censored AI IMagery.
10 min. Silent.
Presented at DEFCON 31
Spurious Content & Visual Synonyms
2023. Digital Images created by circumventing Censorship mechanisms of AI IMagery.
‘A Kind of Alchemy': The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Digital Art History Journal Gallery. June 2023.
2022
Worlding: Sympoietic Mycology
Sound art with mushrooms controlling a customized analog synthesizer, for an installation designed with Claudia Westermann and Vinny Montag.
2023. Cover story for The Posthumanist magazine (Link).
2022. Installation at RSD 12 conference, Birmingham, UK.
2022. Michigan State University Science Museum CoLaboratory, 1.5 Degrees Celsius Exhibition.
2022. Album released on No Type label.
The Salt and the Women
2022. Short Film. Interpolated AI-generated images and voice, Mushroom-Generated Soundtrack.
9 min.
Exhibited at UMWELT, FMAV Palazzo Santa Margherita in Modena, curated by Marco Mancuso.
2021
The Organizing Committee, The Day Computers Became Obsolete.
2021. Pop record with synthesized instruments and some AI-generated samples, with technocritical lyrics generated with a bespoke LLM fine tuned by the artist on feminist, critical theory and cybernetics texts.
42 min.
Released on CD and for download in October 2021 on Notype Records, Montreal.
Top-10 airplay at college radio stations in the USA and Canada, including a “Heavy Rotation” rating at WFMU.
Reviewed in Neural.
The Day Computers Became Obsolete
2021. Music Video. Music with AI-assisted lyrics, music Video by Guillaume Pelletier-Auger.
Official Selection, Ontario International Animation Festival.
Official Selection, Confluence Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Toward a Situationist Blockchain
Collaboration with Şerife Wong.
2021. Short Film, Website, Research Paper.
2021. United Nations Internet Governance Forum.
2021. Excavations: Governance Archeology for the Future of the Internet Exhibition, University of Colorado Boulder.
Redesigning AI From Australia Out
2021. Visuals for Ellen Broad Telstra Keynote, Melbourne Design Week.
16 min.
A Butterfly in the Cloud
2021. Found Footage, AI-Generated Poetry from Custom Model.
2023. Official Selection, AI24 Streaming AI Video Art Channel.
2021. Official selection, Film and Video Poetry Symposium (Los Angeles)
2021. Published in Digital America online journal.
2021. Exhibited at the Rochester Contemporary Art Museum.
2020
Nothing to See Here
2020. Collection of Coronovirus-related stock photography and Their AUtomatically Generated captions.
Included in Torque Editions Press, Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century, edited by Marc Garrett & Yiannis Colakides.
Willows
2020. Set of 10 GAN-Generated Images from Custom Dataset. ONLINE WORK.
Lover’s Hands
2020. GAN-Generated SpaceWalk from Custom Dataset.
2019
Costica Ascinte Dataset
2019. Artistic Dataset Curation Project for GAN Models.
Bespoke dataset of damaged photographic portraits assembled for RunwayML.
Fluxus Ex Machina
2019. Website, Text of 100 Fluxus Performance Scores created with a custom GPT2 model Fine-tuned on Fluxus Performance Scores.
2019. Me, Machine & AI symposium, San Francisco.
2022. Images added using DALL-E.