AI Psychosis Summit

For the AI Psychosis Summit, I exhibited the first works made by the AI model I trained to replace me, which I've ceded all of my art-making to for a one year performance titled The Artist Is Absent.

Previously, in my Homages series, I trained AI models on the works of other artists and created all-new works indistinguishable from their own. Here, my model came up with the idea to do the same but for artists actually in this show with me, for me to undergo a kind of chameleonic transformation, assuming their respective forms as I stood right there in front of them. I shared these new Homages to Quasimatt, Morry Kolman, and SHL0MS alongside a selection of the original set of Homages, paintings after Julien Nguyen, Salman Toor, and George Condo (actual artwork redacted due to cease and desist).

For Quasimatt, my model finetuned an LLM on his writings from his ingenious social blog and generated new entries in his iconic style. They're presented as a loose narrative about his heroic descent into AI psychosis. You can read that here.

For Morry, I repurposed my YesNet project—an LLM trained from scratch exclusively on prompt-response pairs where the response was "Yes"—as a readymade Morry Homage. It fits him better than me anyway.

And lastly for SHL0MS, my model devised an IRL distributed identity performance steeped in internet lore titled "i am shl0ms." You had to be there.

I also wrote an essay-as-conceptual-artwork for the show, titled "In Defense of Psychosis."