Cybernetic Forests.
Cybernetic Forests.
filled with pines and electronics.
 
 

Eryk Salvaggio is Sifting Through the Techno-Social Debris.

 
 
 
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Latest
Because of You (2024)
Because of You (2024)

Exploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.

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SWIM (2024)
SWIM (2024)

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

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The Hypothetical Image
The Hypothetical Image

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

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

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Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise (2023)
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.

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Sarah Palin Forever (2023)
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.

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Sound in the Shape of Electricity
Sound in the Shape of Electricity

An interview with Dogbotic's Kirk Pearson on Analog Electronics and DIY Generativity.


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Gaussian Noise, Human Hands (2023)
Gaussian Noise, Human Hands (2023)

A series of Diffusion-generated images consisting entirely of elements that AI cannot produce.

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The Salt and the Women
The Salt and the Women

A short film experimenting with stochastic resonance and “generative cinema.”

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Interviews

Cybernetic Forests
Sound in the Shape of Electricity
Sound in the Shape of Electricity

An interview with Dogbotic's Kirk Pearson on Analog Electronics and DIY Generativity.


The Intimacies of Mechanical Things
The Intimacies of Mechanical Things

A conversation with sound artist and writer Bani Haykal, exploring human-machine intimacies through the media of interfaces, poetry, and sound.

Where Does the World Happen?
Where Does the World Happen?

A conversation about mushrooms, post-human systems design, extractive capitalism and what lays beyond.

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Imagining an Australian Approach to AI

Watch the Video Delivered for Prof. Ellen Broad’s Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote, “Redesigning Artificial Intelligence From Australia Out,” for Melbourne Design Week 2021.

Architectures of Violence: an Interview with Caroline Sinders
Architectures of Violence: an Interview with Caroline Sinders

An interview with the artist and researcher Caroline Sinders, whose work examines the role of mainstream platforms in supporting extremist online content.

Design + Robots: An Interview with AATB
Design + Robots: An Interview with AATB

Swiss designers AATB bring a sense of playfulness to robotics, exploring creative applications that take machines out of the factory.

Transcending Debt: Meet the Feminist Economics Department
Transcending Debt: Meet the Feminist Economics Department

An interview with Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art is a Hack
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Art is a Hack

An interview with Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo of !Mediengruppe Bitnik.

Selected Artwork Archive

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Structured Missingness (2023)
Structured Missingness (2023)

Experiments in structures of absence, bridging analog and digital diffusion.

Sensual Noise (2023)
Sensual Noise (2023)

Sensitive Noise is a video work made from AI generated abstractions that were identified as suggestive content and blurred by Stable Diffusion’s content moderation system.

A Butterfly in the Cloud (2021)
A Butterfly in the Cloud (2021)

An experiment combining generative and found cinema.

Willows (2020) and Lover's Hands (2020)
Willows (2020) and Lover's Hands (2020)

Using digital cameras to produce AI-generated artworks.


Complete Archive

(See older posts Here).

Featured
Because of You (2024)
Because of You (2024)

Exploring the datafication and distortions of generative AI.

Read More →
SWIM (2024)
SWIM (2024)

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

Read More →
The Hypothetical Image
The Hypothetical Image

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

Read More →
ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) at DEFCON 31
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.

Read More →
Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise (2023)
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.

Read More →
Sarah Palin Forever (2023)
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.

Read More →
Sound in the Shape of Electricity
Sound in the Shape of Electricity

An interview with Dogbotic's Kirk Pearson on Analog Electronics and DIY Generativity.


Read More →
Gaussian Noise, Human Hands (2023)
Gaussian Noise, Human Hands (2023)

A series of Diffusion-generated images consisting entirely of elements that AI cannot produce.

Read More →
The Salt and the Women
The Salt and the Women

A short film experimenting with stochastic resonance and “generative cinema.”

Read More →
The Intimacies of Mechanical Things
The Intimacies of Mechanical Things

A conversation with sound artist and writer Bani Haykal, exploring human-machine intimacies through the media of interfaces, poetry, and sound.

Read More →

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