The Algorithmic Sublime: Noise, Memory, and AI

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioNovember 19, 2024noise, seminiars, seminars, new school, sublime

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

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioOctober 26, 2024music, gaussian noise, gaussian pop, multimodal media theory

A Filter in the Shape of Us (2024)

Part of a series of short meditations on compression algorithms.

Eryk SalvaggioAugust 23, 2024

Moth Glitch (2024)

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioAugust 10, 2024brakhage, moths, moth glitch, ai video

Music for Generated Metronome (2024)

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

Eryk SalvaggioAugust 3, 2024

The Ghost Stays In the Picture

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.

Art, biasEryk SalvaggioJuly 17, 2024archives, hauntology, ai images

Reverse Diffusion: Chance vs Prediction (2024)

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioMay 20, 2024george brecht, software, code, chance

Because of You (2024)

Exploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.

ArtEryk SalvaggioApril 10, 2024art, AI, henrietta lacks, datafication, hauntology

SWIM (2024)

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioJanuary 4, 2024art, diffusion, noise, gaussian noise

The Hypothetical Image

The history of AI images as data analytics, and AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics.

ArtEryk SalvaggioOctober 29, 2023ai images, big data, hypothetical images

ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) at DEFCON 31

An exhibition focused on the creative misuse of AI systems, presented at the world’s largest hacker convention’s AI Village.

ArtEryk SalvaggioSeptember 21, 2023ARRG!

Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise (2023)

A short “documanifesto” on how Diffusion models work, concerns about their logic, and my attempt to resist them through creative misuse.

Art, biasEryk SalvaggioJune 1, 2023flowers blooming backward, noise, gaussian noise, ai images

Sarah Palin Forever (2023)

A 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.

Art, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioMay 1, 2023deepfakes, ai images