SIGGRAPH Art Gallery '24: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Art Gallery

A Monocular Dialogue incarnates myths in the age of Information and Technology. It is an encounter with a single-eyed robot that stares at you and endlessly whispers its inner ruminations. Underneath this confluence of a Cyclops from Greek mythology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from modern technology, lie intriguing, albeit metaphorical, similarities. This 3D printed Polyphemus, figuratively and literally, symbolizes their narrow and limited perspectives; suggests their creation from Gods and higher powers; alludes to the monumental tasks they perform and refers to their ambivalent brute force and potential destructiveness. Between irony and nostalgia, this eye-to-eye dialogue is staged as "the AI is present" and it embodies AI prowess into a mythical monstruous, yet seemingly inoffensive, figure.

Algorithmic Amplifications leverages the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and a custom instant voice cloning pipeline to create a tangible representation of digital echo chambers, underscoring how language shapes our perceptions and reinforces our beliefs. It prompts a critical examination of the impact of AI on our linguistic and cultural landscapes, spotlighting the paradox of technological advancement: while LLMs mark a significant leap in AI, they also mirror and potentially amplify societal biases.

Do Large Language Models produce the truth or technological hallucinations? Cybernetic Oracle invites visitors to use cartomancy to gain insight into their past, present and future with a custom deck of 78 tarot cards and a book of tarot interpretations designed by the artist in collaboration with generative AI models.

Disruptive Critters is a playable interactive audiovisual installation designed to augment live multimedia sound art performances by Duckworth and Hullick (Duckworth Hullick Duo). At a time when artificial intelligence continues to advance, Disruptive Critters provides audiences with a humorous and playful exploration of future creativity and digital disruption through the vocalized human performative possibilities of autonomous computer-generated critters.

I Tell the Moon My Secret and the Moon Tells Me Yours (ITMMSMTMY) is an interactive piece that pairs a robotic arm with the Moon to create light painting photographs to visualize the gathered secrets. The audience can share their secrets on a portal that generates the waveform. The waveform data, once generated, are computed into coordinates and dispatched to the robotic system. The robot arm continues to depict the waveform, but the movement can only be successfully captured by the long-exposure camera when the Moon appears within a certain field of view, since the Moon is the exclusive light source during the long-exposure process.

This project is an explorative digital art installation that delves into the phenomenon of generation loss in digital signal processing - the inevitable degradation of information (e.g., words) quality through copying and propagation. It transcends the technical realm to probe how this concept applies to the transmission and transformation of words and meanings through time and technology. It consists of a series of videos illustrating the loss of words themselves and their meaning, combined with real-time interpretation from both humans and AI. The project allows the audience to find a border of loss, beyond which, information of words might change.

An artificial intelligence writing machine by the seaside inscribes lines of love letters, yet the water-written words disappear without a trace as time passes. From day to night, its writing is never completed, and the letters remain unsent. Perhaps many have swallowed their unexpressed emotions, harboring a myriad of words in their hearts but never daring to write the recipient's name or send them out.

Throughout its history, the formal evolution of written language has been driven by the technology used to render that language---from cuneiform to stone-carved Roman capitals, and up to letterpress and pixels. This phenomenon has accelerated rapidly in the last century with typography adapting to new display possibilities: such as segmented LED displays in early electronics, to more contemporary storage and rendering standards, such as postscript. The locality of these innovations has been primarily situated in the West, where the Latin typographic script is the predominant form of written language. The opportunities presented by these technologies generated pressure for alternative scripts, such as written Arabic, to conform to the formal constraints of these Latin-based technologies, which, in some cases, have undermined the traditional formal structures of the Arabic script.

Rage Against the Archive is an artivist project comprising experimental video, performance, and new media art that scrutinizes how the New York Public Library's (NYPL) digital archives catalog and display dehumanizing ethnographic images from colonial India. This work critically probes whether institutional archives inadvertently perpetuate the cycle of colonial exploitation and visual violence. My artistic approach is anchored in a critical paradigm intended to underscore how technology still commodifies the bodies of people of color and how we, as a more conscientious society, should consume certain images online.

"[ sin-gí ] : Data Weaving" connects digital language and cultural language, developing sound waves of real-time visual programming. It transcodes sound data of local narratives into woven visual patterns, becoming a touchable textile embedded with body artistries and generating local narratives in cross-cultural sound preservations of digital materials. The textiles of "[ sin-gí ] : Data Weaving" are stored, arranged, and indexed individual messages in a meaning materialized way, and become a trace of the producers' body marks, as well as a way of interaction in which personal language is memorized and cultural textiles are mutually mended.

Spambots explores questions around AI and industrial farming. AI is increasingly used to generate spam content. Spambots explores what would happen if, instead, machine learning was used to empower a group of robotic Spam cans to tell their tales. Each Spambot has a small keyboard with four letters on it and when they collaborate they are able type the whole alphabet along with some punctuation. The text they are typing is generated by a neural network fine tuned on a version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World where occasional words have been swapped out for pig-related ones. In this novel each character is born into a role in much the same way industrial farm animals, such as those that end up in Spam, are born into their fate.

"We forge the chains we wear in life" is an aphorism by Charles Dickens. This chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotions. That is, words that tend to possess our minds and souls can also become chains. This inspired me to create a device that forms letters with chains.