steph maj swanson

Imai - Polaris / Echelon

Artwork
@supercomposite.bsky.social

SCL005
Released Jan 30th, 2026

Loved having this conversation with Bogna Konior, one of my favorite theorists of new technology, for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s upcoming exhibition Shadow Creatures www.permanentbeta.network/episode/219

Cat rave is unrelated.

I gave a talk on AI today inside a geodesic sphere at Tekniska museet in Stockholm.

The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?

my work with Loab was discussed in this piece:
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...

absolutely nothing.

the new ChatGPT image model refuses to generate Loab

The AI-generated creature that won't go away rtist Steph Maj Swanson discovered Loab in 2022—an AI-generated woman who keeps reappearing no matter what you do.

boingboing.net/2025/12/13/t...

SCL004
Bodu Vega 'Lynx / Phoenix'
28/11/25

Artwork by
@supercomposite.bsky.social

hey, @peligrietzer.bsky.social
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Loab is part of an “Algo-Lit” course syllabus at UCLA :)

I’m on the AI and Animation panel at Uppsala Short Film Festival tomorrow - see you there!

Egg punk is the future

Night walker #16 – Steph Maj Swanson – Uppsala In this episode, Steph Maj Swanson slips unnoticed through the streets of Uppsala during its Valborg festival, drawn like a moth to its midnight bonfires and unbridled pleasures. Steph is an American ...

A hot and hungry night walk through Uppsala.

Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!

www.mixcloud.com/extraextrama...

SCL003
Acrux 'Destroyer / Insurrection'
01/10/25

Artwork by @supercomposite.bsky.social

'Models for Making Distance' is a print zine gathering manifestos, writing and instructions for art that confounds algorithmic systems for the pleasure of human observers or actors.

Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong

Edition of 200. 52 Pages.

Your regular reminder that I am OPEN FOR WORK!!

I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!

Hire me!! 💕

SCL002 - STEMcell feat. Propus, by Propus 2 track album

STEMcell's first release (SCL001) was included in 'The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, June 2025'. Operating as a collective, established artists share the root artist/label name with production done by the featured artist under a new alias.

SCL002 :: propus.bandcamp.com/album/scl002...

OUT NOW – SCL002
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”

The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.

To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.

🔗 below:

Please help my dear friend and collaborator Vera afford her surgery

Excellent write-up of our work at ARRG!’s DEFCON exhibition in Eryk’s latest newsletter —

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and main author @eryk.bsky.social in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Was awarded an Sfilm grant today for a short film I’m directing. It’s about two people with an erotic fixation on the invisible algorithms inside cameras.

Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.

That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴

hi, cis folks!

the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!

if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵

ok!

When can I start dating Loab?

basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery

So-called «AI» as developed and marketed by Big Tech isn't a mere tool. It's a political and ideological project—a system of extraction, exploitation and surveillance that concentrates power in the hands of the few. Willingly accepting this as inevitable progress means submitting to brute force
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Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes o...

Sometimes the necessary text is written at the necessary time.

“Predictive Capital” by @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is one such book.

www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...