Slow AI Manifesto
It’s 2026. Everyone hates AI. Artists, in particular, really fucking hate AI Which leaves me, an artist, who uses AI in their work, in a tricky position. This isn’t intended to be a rant, or…
Category: Algoculture
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Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With
Originally published in the aiEthix blog The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot…
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Aberrations Volume 1
One way of looking at the recent explosion of generative AI is to consider it as the logical end point of Post-Modernity. For many years we have been living in a world of intertextual remix.…
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Found in Translation
As I write, it is early 2024, and it feels like “AI” has very much gone overground. For a lot of people, this means playing with generative systems for producing images (and rudimentary videos) from…
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RI Christmas Lecture 2023
I was delighted to be invited to contribute to the famous Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. This year’s topic was “The Truth about AI”, presented by Mike Woolridge. I gave a crash course in text2image diffusion…
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the finger creatures of the deep
Herewith, a brief nature documentary about previously undiscovered undersea finger creatures video created with #zeroscope , script by #chatGPT , voiceover by algo-attenborough (who says #AI can’t do hands?! )
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DRASS – Zen and the Art of Procrastination EP
The full EP of songs is now available everywhere (e.g. Spotify) All 4 videos in a convenient playlist:
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DRASS – Shadow of Doubt
The second AV track from DRASS. The video is based around a 1923 clip of a dancer, processed with Stable Diffusion. 100 years later, she is reborn, dancing to a new tune, with a little…
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Chris Boogie
chris chris chris dancing, augmented by AI music: shardcore currently on show at Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt
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The Torinomicon
Algo-generated 16th C woodcuts of demons, printed into a tiny book. The Torinomicon contains a small selection of the demons which inhabit members of the Conservative Party. UPDATE I made 23 copies of an extended…