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SUMMARY:Programmable Sydney
DESCRIPTION:Join me for my research into AI slop with I need a husband: AI beauty standards and the proliferation of bot driven content.This talk will explore AI slop\, catfishing\, the right wing pipeline\, and is tied together with a new artwork exploring the algorithmic gaze\, fascism and AI slop. \n\n\n\n\nGenerative AI is proliferating on social media at an alarming rate. Images are generated and disseminated with political agendas\, particularly in right-wing spheres. These AI-generated images often depict soldiers\, sad children\, or interior designs. Of particular note are the catfishing-style “I need a husband” posts featuring women with impossible proportions\, ostensibly seeking partners. These chimeric creations are bot-driven posts designed to farm engagement\, but they also offer a chilling glimpse into AI-driven beauty standards and the lack of diversity in AI-generated women. These posts reflect a mechanical view of the male gaze. However\, an AI cannot truly comprehend the male gaze\, and in its attempt to mimic it\, it creates beings beyond understanding. This research project aims to analyze the patterns in these images\, explore posting methods and engagement\, and how it relates to Mussolini\, Hitler and current right wing media. I will examine the meaning behind the images culminating in an artistic piece critiquing both the images and their creation and dissemination methods. By rendering these AI-generated images as classical Greek statues through Gaussian splatting and 3D printing\, we aim to create a visual commentary on the intersection of AI\, beauty standards\, and the male gaze. This artistic approach not only highlights the absurdity of these digital constructs but also invites viewers to critically examine AI’s role in shaping contemporary perceptions of beauty and gender roles.Generative AI is proliferating on social media at an alarming rate. Images are generated and disseminated with political agendas\, particularly in right-wing spheres. These AI-generated images often depict soldiers\, sad children\, or interior designs. Of particular note are the catfishing-style “I need a husband” posts featuring women with impossible proportions\, ostensibly seeking partners. These chimeric creations are bot-driven posts designed to farm engagement\, but they also offer a chilling glimpse into AI-driven beauty standards and the lack of diversity in AI-generated women. These posts reflect a mechanical view of the male gaze. However\, an AI cannot truly comprehend the male gaze\, and in its attempt to mimic it\, it creates beings beyond understanding. This research project aims to analyze the patterns in these images\, explore posting methods and engagement\, and how it relates to Mussolini\, Hitler and current right wing media. I will examine the meaning behind the images culminating in an artistic piece critiquing both the images and their creation and dissemination methods. By rendering these AI-generated images as classical Greek statues through Gaussian splatting and 3D printing\, we aim to create a visual commentary on the intersection of AI\, beauty standards\, and the male gaze. This artistic approach not only highlights the absurdity of these digital constructs but also invites viewers to critically examine AI’s role in shaping contemporary perceptions of beauty and gender roles. \n\n\n\n\nD&I_AISlopDownload
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/programmable-sydney/
LOCATION:International Convention Center Sydney\, 14 Darling Drive\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Now or Never - Intraconnection
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be human—when the boundaries between person\, plant\, animal and machine begin to dissolve? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntraconnection is a nightly series of newly commissioned moving-image works developed through Centre for Projection Art’s residency program. Presented on the iconic Fed Square screen for Now or Never\, the project explores multi-species entanglement in all its complexity. \n\n\n\nThis large-scale intervention into public space invites audiences to reflect on kinship\, coexistence\, and the shared ecologies that bind us\, offering moments of empathy\, disorientation\, and expanded awareness.  \n\n\n\nMy Slopocene Icons artwork will be a part of the screening \n\n\n\n🌀 Featuring works by: Ariel Ruby\, Emma Roberts and Ben Joseph Andrews\, J. Rosenbaum\, Max Brading\, Melania Jack\, Rebecca Najdowski\, Shirin Shakhesi and Curated by Yandell Walton. Image credit Ariel Ruby \n\n\n\n📍Federation Square 🗓️ Mon 25 Aug – Sun 31 Aug | 6–10pm \n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with @centreforprojectionart and @fedsquare for @nowornever.melb
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/now-or-never-intraconnection/
LOCATION:Fed Square\, Swanston St\, Flinders St\,\, Melbourne\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Bunjil Place activation
DESCRIPTION:For the month of September from 5 to 7 pm\, the residents of the CfPA will showcase their works on the massive outdoor screen at Bunjil Place. My artwork\, “Slopocene Icons\,” will be reimagined for Bunjil Place and presented as part of a group of posthuman video and sound works. 
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/bunjil-place-activation/
LOCATION:Bunjil Place\, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive\, Narre Warren\, VIC\, 3805\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Entangled Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Slopocene Icons will be showing in two locations during Entangled Worlds at Collingwood Yards. These site specific installations will show the emerging AI fascist aesthetic in AI slop and generative AI. Through projection mapping these works will exhibit AI slop made with an intricate pipeline of custom trained AI systems\, 3D modeling\, 3D printing and more. \n\n\n\n\n“Slopocene Icons interrogates AI slop on social media and juxtaposes it with classical sculpture to draw a connection between AI as an emerging fascist aesthetic. The algorithmic gaze of generative AI echoes the fascinations of 20th‑century dictators with classical statuary as an idealised form of humanity. By bringing together AI slop and classical imagery\, Slopocene Icons stages a cautionary narrative. It asks us to examine how generative AI\, marketed as neutral and creative\, encodes\, amplifies\, and aestheticises authoritarian ideals\, enforcing narrow visions of beauty\, gender\, and humanity under the guise of progress.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nAriel Ruby \n\n\n\nBen Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts \n\n\n\nJen Valender \n\n\n\nJ. Rosenbaum \n\n\n\nMax Brading \n\n\n\nMelania Jack \n\n\n\nRebecca Najdowski \n\n\n\nShirin Shakhesi \n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Centre for Projection Art and Collingwood Yards. \n\n\n\nSupported by City of Yarra and Melbourne Fringe. \n\n\n\nCurated by Yandell Walton \n\n\n\nFri 3 Oct — ACTIVATIONS: \n\n\n\nHarrison Hall x Mat Spisbah x Nikki Tarling x Luca Dante \n\n\n\nJen Valender x Genevieve Fry \n\n\n\nSarah Aiken \n\n\n\nShirin Shakhesi​​​​​​​
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/slopocene-icons-entangled-worlds/
LOCATION:Collingwood Yards\, 35 Johnston St\, Collingwood\, Victoria\, 3066\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Everything Open - The Beast of AI Slop
DESCRIPTION:Our adventurers are still recovering from the battle against the automaton of AI bias\, but little did they know that lurking beneath the waves was a new monster\, waiting to swallow everyone and everything they hold dear. It’s time for a new TTRPG themed talk! This time around AI slop\, the beast that devours everything and summons forth endless simulacra. A beast that is everywhere\, taking our data\, churning out non-stop slop. We will look at what AI slop is and how to combat it\, in both the game and real life. \n\n\n\nAI slop is a scourge of our time. It has been likened to an oil spill\, and even to the atomic bomb in terms of its pollution of the internet. Part of my work is as an AI fact checker and I see a huge amount of AI slop. I will guide you to recognize the key signs\, as well as some tricks to protect your data. This talk is a D&D themed talk about AI slop. Much like my previous D&D talk I will alternate between a story as DM\, and information we can use to fight the increasing swell of AI slop in our lives. I will provide meaningful tips and insights for how people are fighting\, from combatting google AI overviews\, to protecting your data\, all with a D&D flavor that will hopefully grant us inspiration and bonuses to our perception checks against AI slop.It’s a sequel adventure! and interactive presentation with a playable module coming soon. \n\n\n\nEO_AISlopDnDDownload Slides
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/everything-open-the-beast-of-ai-slop/
LOCATION:University of Canberra\, Kirinari Street South\, BRUCE\, ACT\, 2617\, Australia
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SUMMARY:ACMI+RMIT Audience Lab - Memento Mori
DESCRIPTION:I will be testing my latest version of Memento Mori at ACMI for the ACMI +RMIT Audience Lab\, an opportunity for us to test interactive works to explore audience receptions at one of Melbourne’s premiere museums.  \n\n\n\nMemento Mori is an exploration of the environmental damage of generative AI and uses local\, ethical AI to track and stamp human presence as a rectangle and then fill it in with an image of nature. Over time these photographic images will lose resolution and gradually be replaced by locally generated works from a hand trained small AI. The results will be chaotic\, as the human traces are occluded by the machinic influences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome see this work take shape on Saturday the 14th of March\, between 10 and 5 and talk to me about Memento Mori.
URL:https://jrosenbaum.com.au/event/acmirmit-audience-lab-memento-mori/
LOCATION:ACMI\, Fed Square\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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