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A few years ago, my friend and sometimes collaborator, the author John Higgs was kicking around the idea that a future super-intelligent AI may not inevitably take over the world and destroy us (as suggested…

I have long held a fascination with #manufacturedauthenticity. Authenticity is what we seek out in art (and across our lives, more generally). Many of my previous works have investigated how machine generated interventions can appear…

cohen, cave, bush, dick, crowley, falkous, bosch, diggs, ballard, borges, dali, bacon, nietzsche, Hopper, sartre, newton, prince, plath, von hagens, albini, houellebecq, basquiat, khalo, machiavelli, freud, ouspensky, marx, van gogh, hawking, orwell, o'keeffe, monroe, man…

The vast majority of current artistic activity around AI systems is in the visual domain. However, tools are arriving daily which operate in different domains. One area I find particularly fascinating is speech and music…

I came across a 1950s christian anti-wanking record and I decided to chop it up and make it into something new. The video clips care of the every wonderful Prelinger archive, sneakily manipulated with some of that #AI stuff everyone seems to…

The full EP of songs is now available everywhere (e.g. Spotify) All 4 videos in a convenient playlist:

Third track from DRASS. Available to stream from all the usual places.

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…

The first song/video from my new musical project, DRASS. The lyric is written from the perspective of an emergent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), feeding on our culture and learning how to be our friend (or…

music by Sam Hewitt