Co-authored with Søren Pold and presented in August at Computing [X] Crisis in Aarhus, our new paper “Reading the Praise/Prompt Machine: An Interface Criticism Approach to ChatGPT” introduces novel methods for critiquing the linguistic interfaces of AI chatbots. We theorize
My work Platform Sweet Talk is part of You Have a New Follower! at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. Curated by Marianne Schädler as part of the Digiloglounge, the exhibition critically examines social platforms: Social
Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently published a short essay called The Intelligence Age. Not dissimilar from various essays by other Silicon Valley figures, his obsessions with growth and scale are evident throughout the text. Instead of composing an essayistic
Note: In June 2016, I wrote the essay below to capture my thoughts on then-conventional approaches to AI music creation. I didn’t publish it, though some related ideas went into a DARPA proposal that was funded (with colleague Kelland Thomas).
Last week I gave a talk at the Visions Forum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. Joined by artists and researchers that included Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford, Visions proposes a new way of looking at looking
Visit Read the Redaction Poetry Techno-Optimist Manifesto In October 2023, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that s led to so
Visit Visit Stuck in the Scroll Description Stuck in the Scroll is a compulsive scrolling monitor that reveals, in real-time, whether I m currently scrolling TikTok. Think of this work as a last-ditch effort, a sort of public confessional as therapeutic
As part of my work as a guest researcher with the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen in Norway, I gave a new talk about the endless engagement aesthetics of AI platforms like ChatGPT. Titled Your perspective
I m pleased to share that I received the Artist Fellowship in Digital Arts from the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) for 2024. According to the Executive Director of the Arts Council, Joshua Davis-Ruperto, IAC Fellowship Awards acknowledge, support, and celebrate the
Next week I ll give a talk at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen titled “Your perspective is quite insightful”: Deconstructing the Endless Engagement Aesthetics of AI Platforms. I ll be sharing some in-progress work I m looking at