80 x 40 x 40

ingredients: 3D print, epoxy resin, LCD screen, LEDs, raspberry pi, arduino, mosaic, stepper motors, buttons, plexiglass, sticker, stable diffusion image-to-text clip interrogator, runway ML text-to-image AI, text processing: LLaMa, ChatGPT

a swarm of cyber sculptures that can connect through a local network or light. the sculptures have AI powered databases and are able to interact with each other: interpreting and fantasizing about each others output...
each exhibition they engage in a new dialogue.

patriarchy_smasher

is a creature that is stimulated if the conversation is dominated by male voices, the character gets triggered, causing the red lights to rise . . . when they reach the top, the sculpture gets activated and shares women who have played an important role in the history of computing.

phantasmagoria

uses image analysis to see what the other cyber sculptures are talking about. when triggered it generates a new image based on the analysis . . . at the exhibition unstable image it selected suitable artwork from the centraal museum’s collection database in the same way as the work: archive.dweller.

geoglyph

delves into the invisible history of queerness and witchcraft. during the exhibition: unstable image it was focussed on the city of utrecht . . . taking you through the hidden myths and legends of the city . . . it uses large language models to speculatively augment missing information from poorly documented stories.

supported by: kf hein fonds, stipend 2022

image & copyright: centraal museum, urecht, gert jan van rooij