amy Time for another of my highly sporadic updates! Been working a lot on the Deep World project, and with custom LLM chatbots in general. Long story short: I’ve been working on adapting Deep World from performance to installation so people can interact with it. So, I’ve been working a lot with custom LLMs, learning a … Read more
Excited to premiere Deep World with DJ monocromo at the Algo-what Algorave at California Center for the Arts, Escondido this month! Finally had the chance to put together some documentation on the project. It’s my longtime VJ Übergeek persona back again.. but this time, there’s both a custom LLM and more meaningful text improvisation. It’s … Read more
Extra excited to be performing at, AFAIK, San Diego’s first Algorave. https://www.instagram.com/p/DKf1DGdyFkx/?hl=en I’ll be debuting a new VJ Übergeek performance, involving a live LLM, all new generative visuals, and Übergeek’s usual assortment of gadgetry and costumery. As it’s VJ Übergeek’s 25th anniversary, Übergeek’s classic existential angst has been newly refurbished for 2025 as well. I’ll … Read more
Super honored to have the Plagiarist Manifesto as part of Panke Gallery’s “In Between – A NetArt Exhibition for Bright Night,” curated by the always amazing Sakrowski. https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/brightnight/ A collection of early net art works from a time when we “lived intensely the hopes and fears of the coming networked age.” The show is part … Read more
Excited to be on the panel: AI & Artistic Autonomy This Friday, 21 March 9 AM PDT Moderated by: Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon Remote panel / Free registration! Lots of cool panelists! 2025-03-21: AI and Artistic Autonomy
Hey! Lots going on in the world, and in the overlapping realms of social media, algorithms, and reality. “The algorithm” is more salient than ever. So, I decided it’d be a good time to rebuild What the Robot Saw. What the Robot Saw is a generative livestream that uses its own “contrarian” algorithms to continuously … Read more
Did some fun generative AI projects: “The Complete Daisy,” a throwback political ad, from a “simpler” time of negative politics… And “Crying,” a very short film for the very cool “One Off” festival by Noemata — on the theme of crying. (starts on Nov 15th): https://noemata.net/one-off
Once upon a time — October 1, 2010 apparently — I wrote a tumblr post about a story my father had then recently told me about Grace Hopper’s teaching. The gist of the story is that she taught a lecture in a course my father took with her (ca 1950’s) in which she explained what a computer … Read more
Deep Hysteria will be making its print debut in the AI AI AI exhibition at Radian Gallery, San Francisco. This’ll be my first time ever exhibiting print work.. Woo hoo! Lotsa cool work in this show! Psyched to be joining them!
If you’ll be in Linz this week, I’ve got a new paper, Deep Hysteria: Toward a Constructive Approach to Algorithmic Bias in the Expanded Animation symposium at Ars Electronica on Friday Sept 6th. Unfortunately, I have to attend this one remotely, but I’ll be Zooming in for the presentation and Q&A Friday morning. Excited about … Read more