handing hands

graces & places

we want this structure to be perfect

a symbol a ssembly a semblance

in or, a round sedition

as say

not always empty

NFT produced for the “artists 2 peer“ (a2p) show. This piece is both the key to and the product of a self-updating database of ‘similar images’ stored at http://spreading.blue. Every hour a bot scours the internet for images that have visual similarity to the seed image of Argyria, a condition created by over-consumption of silver which was an early internet-touted fake cure for COVID.

argyria, or full color spread

sketch from an as-yet unfinished opera in which my father convinces me of the coming storm

safety gyms and allopoetic operas

counter factual is a collection of open-source CAPTCHAs that ask speculative questions about a world. The CAPTCHAs take as ground-truth a world in which systems of state violence have been eradicated and society has been rebuilt with mutual aid as the primary goal. Users are invited to prove they are human (and not automated attack scripts) by considering what a world without prisons, police, war, and competition might look like

counterfactual

counter factual collects and document the artifacts produced by people responding to the prompts. This will serve as an archive of people considering a different world. It will also serve, rhetorically if not functionally, as an archive of true data from that different world. 

An optical-character-recognition bot scours the web; when it finds an image, it isolates it, crops it, speaks it, and uses that term to search for more images. This process repeats ad infinitum. This is a music video interpretation of indexing machines. There is rhythmic sound to the discovery; the spider is a musician.

thus spake

A pix2pix conditional adversarial neural network was trained on hundreds of ‘reaction’ videos on youtube to create a machine for generalizable reactions. The image on the left is a youtube video that was curated in a playlist to show to the machine during the exhibition. The image on the right is the machine’s ‘reaction’ to the image that it is shown.

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