An Anti-Algorithmic Activation of a Family Archive

This accordion book juxtaposes the visual language and algorithmic node based logic of AI image processing interfaces like Runway ML to an intuitive and sentimental transformation of my family's photo archive through an analog creative process.

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Working with my family's photo archive from the 90s, I subjected the images to a series of analog transformations including cyanotype, transaquatype, and xerox transfer. I reassembled the results into collaged impressionistic portraits of my parents, documenting every step of the process. Based on this documentation, I reverse engineered a pseudo-coded algorithm of my transformations, resulting in a set of absurd instructions.

Deconstructing the Aesthetics of Online Astrology Through a Conditional Design System

This book of chance responds to the rise of digital horoscopes like the popular app Costar, bringing online astrology's minimalist aesthetics, reliance on AI, and supposed hyper-personalization to absurd extremes. Like Costar, I collected the birth time of each calendar's intended user to generate a “hyper-personalized” copy, using this input to uniquely randomize the sequence of AI generated illustrations and predictions, the layout of each page, and the aspect ratio of the entire calendar.

Visualizing the Invisible Link Between Art Galleries and Gentrification

This collection of postcards investigates how the sprawl of art galleries and the “creative class” into once affordable areas may either follow or create gateways for neighborhood displacements in St. Louis. Each postcard pairs relevant statistics with one of 12 galleries that moved into gentrifying St. Louis neighborhoods between 2010 and 2021.

The visual language of the series subverts the mythologized nostalgia aesthetics of St. Louis gentrification. STL’s famous Gateway Arch, rendered in a manner reminiscent of the classic McDonald’s Golden Arches, becomes a central motif of this visual treatment.