Understory Art Residency

Understory Art Residency

2022.12

I was invited to be the Artist in Residence at the Understory, which is a creative art space in the base of the Amazon Spheres HQ in downtown Seattle for the month of November and December, 2022. During my residency, I created a number of participation based installations. I focused on the ideas of authenticity, physical reality versus one's perception, and the societal implications of the expansion of artificial intelligence.

During the residency, I developed three primary installations. First, my collection of 16 Crypto Shards: steel, concrete and leather sculptural physical NFTs. Each can be authenticated physically to show it is authentic and matches the digital NFT on the Ethereum blockchain.

Second, I created a one-way mirror installation which shows your estimated body segments (stick skeleton) based on an AI model.

Lastly, I created a 1970s office environment with a hacked word processor typewriter connected to OpenAI's GPT3 and DALL-E AI models. The participant begins typing a story, and the typewriter continues the story autonomously. As the story unfolds on the typewriter, DALL-E illustrated the story on the wood paneled wall in three picture frames.