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Instead of depicting her as "evil", I've turned her more as an cursed, isolated, sad hag, who's finding companionship.
Loab by @supercomposite.bsky.social
Face reference snatched from @Thomasmodeller1 on Twitter

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Question for the AI people: in the year 2026 what is your go-to upscaler?

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Fotomuseum Winterthur | Museum for Photography and Visual Culture | Shadow Creatures – From Spirit Photography to the Ghosts of the Algorithm Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum for contemporary photography. The works of young as well as established international photographers and artists are shown in changing group and solo exhibitions. In t...

excited to exhibit my work as a part of
SHADOW CREATURES – FROM SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE GHOSTS OF THE ALGORITHM
opening June 27th
at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland
!!!
www.fotomuseum.ch/en/exhibitio...

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Imai - Polaris / Echelon

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@supercomposite.bsky.social

SCL005
Released Jan 30th, 2026

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Loved having this conversation with Bogna Konior, one of my favorite theorists of new technology, for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s upcoming exhibition Shadow Creatures www.permanentbeta.network/episode/219

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Cat rave is unrelated.

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I gave a talk on AI today inside a geodesic sphere at Tekniska museet in Stockholm.

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The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?

my work with Loab was discussed in this piece:
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...

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absolutely nothing.

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the new ChatGPT image model refuses to generate Loab

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The AI-generated creature that won't go away rtist Steph Maj Swanson discovered Loab in 2022—an AI-generated woman who keeps reappearing no matter what you do.

boingboing.net/2025/12/13/t...

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Bodu Vega 'Lynx / Phoenix'
28/11/25

Artwork by
@supercomposite.bsky.social

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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

hey, @peligrietzer.bsky.social
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

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Loab is part of an “Algo-Lit” course syllabus at UCLA :)

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I’m on the AI and Animation panel at Uppsala Short Film Festival tomorrow - see you there!

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Egg punk is the future

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Night walker #16 – Steph Maj Swanson – Uppsala In this episode, Steph Maj Swanson slips unnoticed through the streets of Uppsala during its Valborg festival, drawn like a moth to its midnight bonfires and unbridled pleasures. Steph is an American ...

A hot and hungry night walk through Uppsala.

Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!

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Acrux 'Destroyer / Insurrection'
01/10/25

Artwork by @supercomposite.bsky.social

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'Models for Making Distance' is a print zine gathering manifestos, writing and instructions for art that confounds algorithmic systems for the pleasure of human observers or actors.

Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong

Edition of 200. 52 Pages.

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Your regular reminder that I am OPEN FOR WORK!!

I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!

Hire me!! 💕

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SCL002 - STEMcell feat. Propus, by Propus 2 track album

STEMcell's first release (SCL001) was included in 'The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, June 2025'. Operating as a collective, established artists share the root artist/label name with production done by the featured artist under a new alias.

SCL002 :: propus.bandcamp.com/album/scl002...

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OUT NOW – SCL002
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”

The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.

To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.

🔗 below:

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Please help my dear friend and collaborator Vera afford her surgery

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Excellent write-up of our work at ARRG!’s DEFCON exhibition in Eryk’s latest newsletter —

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

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Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems | Critical AI | Duke University Press

Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and main author @eryk.bsky.social in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

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Was awarded an Sfilm grant today for a short film I’m directing. It’s about two people with an erotic fixation on the invisible algorithms inside cameras.

Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.

That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴

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hi, cis folks!

the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!

if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵

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ok!

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When can I start dating Loab?

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