Super-duper excited to be showing two pieces at And/Or Gallery in Pasadena, in a show with Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of JODI! Opening is this Saturday, November 14th.
Deep World makes its gallery debut as an interactive installation. The familiar “helpful assistant” chatbot reflects its developers’ ideas about how a chatbot should speak to us, when it should defer, and what it means to be useful. For Deep World, I take a general-purpose large language model (LLM) and re-author its chatbot as a questionable philosopher and observer of contemporary life.
In this version, the chatbot tries to make sense of contemporary life through borders, both literal and metaphorical. You can talk with Deep World in the gallery, where its replies unfold in real time as animated text amid shifting graphics and ambient sound.
I’m also showing What the Robot Saw, a perpetual livestream that imagines what a social media surveillance bot might see.
Plus, amazing projects from Joan and Dirk!
The opening is Saturday, November 14, 6–9 p.m., at And/Or Gallery, 980 S Arroyo Pkwy #200, Pasadena. The show runs through January 16, 2027.
