Initiated in 2018, ongoing.
A critical and technical exploration of the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone. This work questions the epistemological qualities of AI-accelerated historiography, akin to 'reverse archaeology'.

2023. ckpt-format file of a collapsed Stable Diffusion Ai model, film-essay.
Images of chairs were generated by a Stable Diffusion deep learning model from the prompt a single chair on a white background. The dataset was reused to retrain the model, as if to enhance its understanding of the given prompt. After six iterations, data cannibalism led the figurative chair image to become abstract digital noise, exposing susceptibility to corruption of computational ontology due to data feedback loops within Ai model echo chambers.

2023. ckpt-format file of a collapsed Stable Diffusion Ai model, film-essay.
A text-to-image AI model was given the prompt “A single chair on a white background.” After six iterations of retraining on its own outputs, the autocannibalised model lost ability to produce realistic chair images, but non-figurative digital noise instead. Thus revealing model collapse and its fragility to recursive data feedback loops

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2022. E-ink screens, plexiglass, open-source software, fragments of films by investigative journalists.
The Exo-Censorship Tactical Proposal protects investigative journalism. Censored archives are safeguarded against blocking by being hosted as tiny data bits across thousands of nodes on decentralised networks.

2018. E-ink screens, GAN Ai model, custom assembled dataset, custom-loop server; custom developed playback software driver.
E-ink screens are set to display moving images streamlined by an AI (GAN) algorithm trained on images of inkblots and set to generate similar images at the rate of thousands a minute.

Initiated in 2018, ongoing.
A critical and technical exploration of the capacities of AI models to reconstruct missing fragments of objects from classical antiquity and generate synthetic historical documents carved in stone. This work questions the epistemological qualities of AI-accelerated historiography, akin to 'reverse archaeology'.

2014. White t-shirts, film; duration: 02'19".

A series of interventions, where an newly purchased plain white T-shirts from a fast-fashion clothing chain, were screen printed with the short text messages, and returned them for a refund. Unaware of the modification, the store restocked the T-shirts with artists messages, featuring them in the store prominently displayed and available for purchasing.

2011-2018. Online intervention. 5-ch. video installation, film, website: thenewcolor.net, book.

An on­line mystification concerning a parascientific break­through discovery of a never-before-seen colour. The digital myth took the form of a fictitious company's website, video adverts & mockumentary interviews to become a viral sensation attracting mass attention online.