explores the poltergeist inside contemporary generative ai image generators and llms ... a disembodied intelligence that moves symbols without touching the world that produced them.

when meaning is reduced to correlations, ambiguity is erased, difference is classified, and power decides what becomes “signal” or disposable “noise.”

the installation brings together unruly tools, looping script and broken taxonomies to expose the violence embedded in generative AI. language models circulate research questions prompted by visitors behaviors in the space; datasets are navigated through friction, weight and resistance; supply chains unfold across timezones; bodies and fossils surface from technological exhaustion. these elements reveal an ecosystem in which labor, resources, and meaning are continuously extracted and obscured.

systems_for_refusal proposes a refusal of certainty, inviting attention to noise, anomalies, and beings that escape classification.
the research and development of the project systems_for_refusal is supported by KHOJ and rembrandt residency (embassy of the kingdom of NL in india). it was produced as part of bodies-machines-publics 2025.
images: KHOJ open days 2025 © khoj international artists association

sound + tech collaboration: ymer marinus, the living void - QTHQ