J. Rosenbaum

Bunjil Place activation
2025-09-01 17:00 - 2025-09-30 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Bunjil Place, 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, VIC, 3805, Australia
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.

Entangled Worlds
2025-10-02 17:30 - 2025-10-05 22:30 | Collingwood Yards, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood, Victoria, 3066, Australia
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.

“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.”

Featuring:

Ariel Ruby

Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts

Jen Valender

J. Rosenbaum

Max Brading

Melania Jack

Rebecca Najdowski

Shirin Shakhesi

Presented by Centre for Projection Art and Collingwood Yards.

Supported by City of Yarra and Melbourne Fringe.

Curated by Yandell Walton

Fri 3 Oct — ACTIVATIONS:

Harrison Hall x Mat Spisbah x Nikki Tarling x Luca Dante

Jen Valender x Genevieve Fry

Sarah Aiken

Shirin Shakhesi​​​​​​​

Everything Open - The Beast of AI Slop
2026-01-21 08:00 - 2026-01-23 17:00 | University of Canberra, Kirinari Street South, BRUCE, ACT, 2617, Australia
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.

AI 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.

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ACMI+RMIT Audience Lab - Memento Mori
2026-03-14 10:00 - 17:00 | ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
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.

Memento 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.

Come see this work take shape on Saturday the 14th of March, between 10 and 5 and talk to me about Memento Mori.
