Gaussian Noise, Human Hands (2023)

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

ArtEryk SalvaggioFebruary 13, 2023hands, gaussian noise, images

The Salt and the Women

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

Eryk SalvaggioJanuary 30, 2023

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.

InterviewsEryk SalvaggioDecember 11, 2022intimacy, machines, artists

Where Does the World Happen?

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

InterviewsEryk SalvaggioNovember 27, 2022Rūta, Žemčugovaitė, Mycology, Worlding, World Building, Futures, Regenerative

Worlding: Sympoietic Mycology

Building a cybernetic mushroom synthesizer to explore design frameworks for nonhuman worlds.

Cybernetics, Most Popular, ArtEryk SalvaggioOctober 17, 2022mushrooms, worlding, design

How to Read an AI Image

A text about reading AI images as infographics.

biasEryk SalvaggioOctober 2, 2022ai, ai images, ai literacy

The Prompt is an Event

On George Brecht, chance, and anticonceptualism in AI imagery.

ArtEryk SalvaggioAugust 11, 2022fluxus, prompt, dalle2, gpt2, gpt3, ai

Toward a Situationist Blockchain

Introducing LutteCoin, a blockchain against spectacle, created in collaboration with Şerife Wong for the Media Archeology Lab at UC Boulder & King’s College, London. The work was presented to the UN Internet Governance Forum in December 2021.

ArtEryk SalvaggioDecember 9, 2021situationist, blockchain, governance

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.

Design, Interviews, CyberneticsEryk SalvaggioNovember 5, 2021design, keynote, video

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.

InterviewsEryk SalvaggioMay 14, 2021internet art

What does the mouse see?

Notes and observations from the 2021 Computer Mouse Conference.

Design, CyberneticsEryk SalvaggioApril 30, 2021Computer Mouse Conference, Computer Mouse

A Total Portrait With No Omissions: Photogrammetry “at the point of a singular horizon”

A pre-history of 3D imaging written for Ren Gregorcic’s photogrammetry sculptures.

ArtEryk SalvaggioFebruary 27, 2021photogrammetry, 3D

Nobody is Always Watching You: From Big Brother to Big Data

As George Orwell's 1984 enters the public domain, how might we use that lens to explore historic relationships between truth, surveillance, and artificial intelligence technology today?

Cybernetics, bias, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioFebruary 10, 2021Orwell, surveillance, bias, wiener, cybernetics

Enter The Aviary: Time Travel With Birds and Machines

The Aviary is a cyber-physical system and sonic artwork that identifies birds from national parks, and turns data into an immersive soundscape.

Eryk SalvaggioNovember 11, 2020

The Organizing Committee: Cyborg Pop

I co-wrote an album about Cybernetic Socialist Democracy with a few AIs. There are also music videos.

Eryk SalvaggioJuly 30, 2020

Creative Strategies for Algorithmic Resistance!

The machines that nudge us can be nudged back: Here are some ideas on how to steer them.

Art, Cybernetics, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioJuly 29, 2020machine learning, resistance

The Cybernetic Forest Synthesizer

Thinking about the reductive role of symbols in computing, and how I tried (and failed) to transcend it by building a synthesizer out of an eagle and three satellites.

Nothing to See Here

Exploring covid-19 stock photographs and their machine-generated descriptions is a surprisingly poetic task.

Art, Most PopularEryk SalvaggioMay 3, 2020machine learning, image recognition

Who Chose the Colors of Birds? Four Lessons about Data from the History of Color

Like any other piece of data, the way we define colors — and describe the natural world — has been shaped by a series of decisions related to economics and technology.

Most Popular, Editor's PicksEryk SalvaggioApril 16, 2020

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.

Art, Cybernetics, Design, InterviewsEryk SalvaggioFebruary 3, 2020AATB