My collage work this year extended Cyborg T.A.R.O.T., a project about the cybernetic conjuncture of flesh and metal—that moment of fusion and unfolding toward data-driven psychic contamination. This new series, titled Assemblages, also came with its counterpart, Disassemblages, consisting of AI visuals generated through models I trained. It is naïve, but I learned that apparent naïveté is often a lure: a way to hide the abyssal rhizomes of insight one can get lost in. It was also part of a larger research project about “détournement”—collective intelligence extracted from obsolete knowledge—which is, in a way, what generative AI does on a textural level.
ASSEMBLAGES
