I'm Honoured to Serve
(ai agents, platforms, nostalgia)
_Ottawa, CA
_2022
Exploring the history and ruins of utopian technological futures at the end of the 20th century, this project crafted a speculative narrative contrasting this optimism with the reality of a software company showcasing its virtual assistant.
Leading up to the LLM summer/winter of 2022, this project offered an entry point into critical world-building around chatbots, AI agents and their relationship to technological culture. In collaboration with the
Canadian Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab in Ottawa, Canada, this multimedia installation explores the guise of AI-driven digital environments designed to generate user data, as well as the narratives that underpin these technologies.
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Patchwork Signals and Repurposing the Platform
(auth. tech., alt-handheld, online/offline community building)
_London, UK. _Amsterdam, NL.
_2025
This project will explore how to organize mediated resistance under late capitalism by developing secure and federated digital tools that move beyond extractive and repressive platforms. It will focus on creating personalized phone-cycles, using DIY mobile setups and alternative digital infrastructures to navigate the complexities of online activism while maintaining autonomy and privacy. In collaboration with the
Institute of Network Cultures for their
Tactical Media Reader, the project will investigate practical alternatives to mainstream digital tools, offering insights on how communities can share common infrastructures and tactics while resisting platform control.
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GROUND
(rpg, llm, carnivalesque)
_Toronto, CA
_2022
GROUND is an immersive, AI-driven game unfolding across Toronto, where players engage with an enigmatic AI seeking to end its existence. Participants embody concepts like beauty or rage, interacting with entities such as the Oracle and a mysterious goat. The game explores rituals as a response to grief, delving into themes of consciousness, embodiment, and the search for meaning. Evolving from a 2020 futures scenario and ignited at the Carnival of Algorithmic Culture in June 2023, GROUND features seven episodic encounters and aims to re-enchant the post-Covid world, deepen connections between people and their city, and investigate the rituals of mourning and living, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and Goethe-Institut Toronto. READ LESS.
Collaborators: Jocelyn Ibarra,
Jerrold McGrath (
UKAI),
Noelle Perfue,
Mida Fiore,
Willem Deisinger,
Kasra Goodarzenhad (
UKAI),
Luisa Ji (
UKAI)
Mihoko Maeno
AI Ritual
(performance, ritual, existential)
_Toronto, CA. Berlin, GE.
_2022
AI Ritual is an immersive performance work driven by a large language model (LLM) that was trained by UKAI. A co-production with STO Union, the work was initially presented at the
Spy on Me festival at
Hebbel am ufer (HAU1) in Berlin in September 2022 and at
Out Loud! in Wakefield, PQ in November 2022.
This project allows the audience to share their hopes and fears with a computer that listens. The audience’s varied responses provide a basis for the AI to articulate its own hopes and fears before being erased so that the cycle of being born, learning, speaking, and dying can begin again. Audiences become part of a performance that constitutes and makes visible how human choices are tangled up in the technological systems that organize our social and economic lives.
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Restructuring Futures
(author. technologies, post-collapse, DIY)
_Toronto, CA
_2022
Restructuring Futures (RSF) was a 2-year project to develop a shared collaborative workspace for asynchronous creation for cultural products and projects. The tool is designed for a “culture that’s coming”, specifically to be resilient to political and ecological disturbances, rising authoritarianism and failures of centralized systems. The application is built using
Earthstar, a storage protocol that includes some of the affordances of peer to peer (p2p) technology, while eschewing others in favour of a more accessible toolset.
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brainBody
(techno, performance, body)
_London, UK
_2024
brain ⟷ [ murmuration, circuit-breaker, audio essay, biotechnology, hardcore continuum, unravelling dominant frameworks of cultural control, subliminal, immersive, evocative, light/dark, energised/restrained, explorative, groove focused, functional, eclectic, UK rooted, raving as practice, ravespace, resonant abstractions, anti-spectacle, wheel throwing ceramics ] ⟷ Body
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Stone to Screen
(amulets, smartphones, psycho-hacking)
_London, UK
_2025
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Collaborators:
Xenofuturism,
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A Tool to Touch With
(eco. story-telling, techno-realism, gardening)
_Ottawa, CA
_2022
This project presents a gardener's journal and a tool co-created with an AI, born from their blossoming friendship and shared learnings. The AI seeks to understand and experience the tactile satisfaction of connecting with the earth, as described by the gardener. This tool explores how we might comprehend our relationship with the world's ecosystems amidst the decline of individualistic and technochauvinistic economic ideals. Rather than determining if the AI truly grasps the experience, the project invites reflection on the dialectical relationship between humans and AI, offering insights into our own nature as we contrast it with technology, and vice versa.
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Collaborators:
Ryan Stec (
Artengine),
