Media Arts and Technology

I’m interested in garbage. Tabloid magazines, reality TV, hyper-processed foods, elevator muzak… the forms of culture which have the widest reach and receive almost no critical inquiry, simply because they are too base, too low, too worthless. I think that the pop-up advertisement and the sponsored ...

I've been really interested in the concept of "degradation" in image-generation software that was first introduced to me in the study we read for the first week of class. I wanted this project to, in some way, mirror the "Disintegration Loops" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI) made by Wi...

For this assignment, I wanted to reverse what we had been doing in the class so far. Rather than starting with a concept and generating images to explore that concept, I wanted to start from AI images I encountered “wild” on the internet and provide a contextualized analysis of their epistemology. ...

For this assignment, I took a section of the opening stanza of Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California." I picked it because it is both abstract and rich in imagery, and I wanted to keep in both the concrete, representational parts of the poem and the abstract exclamations. I chose to leave in...

I wanted to take a more conceptual approach to this assignment, beginning with the concept of an AI-generated self portrait. I feel that if all of the terms in the prompt apply to the person I am, that image is at least partly a "self portrait." So I ran two opposing types of prompts--one which focu...