model collapse

solo exhibition, 2024 - 2025

now on show at tetem, enschede

ingredients: LLM, interface, spatial sound, UE5 environment, responsive lights, phantasmagoria, geoglyph, patriarch_smasher, tetemisclosed, seeding_venus and model.collapse

Is an immersive exhibition that depicts the landscape from which (generative) AI emerges..

revealing its self-consuming origins in extraction of the earth’s resources and data through relics, artifacts and stories from the past...

type in a query at the main station, and a local language model determines your location within the landscape. your query dynamically breathes life into this generative digital biome and sets the scene of the exhibition….

the environment is inhabited by cyber sculptures .... the deity that resonates with your query will awaken in response, sharing their knowledge, fighting dominant imaginaries and narratives entangled within the origins of AI touching upon: mystification, gender bias, non-western algorithmic practices, the ecological footprint and labor …

now on show: model.collapse at tetem, enschede until feb 23 2025.

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exhibition in collaboration with: ymer marinus and tetem
pictures by: tessa wiegerinck
cyber sculptures: includor, extractor, mystificator, classifier supported by stimuleringsfonds creatieve industrie
cyber sculptures: patriarch_smasher, geoglyph, museum is closed and phantasmagoria supported by kf hein fonds

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You can use this installation to participate in the conversation between the cyber sculptures, who might respond.