talks
Human Noise, AI Filters: "Mr. Watson, Come Here."
Remarks on AI, Noise, and Creative Misuse for the Artificial Intelligence & Contemporary Creation conference, 24 May 2025 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Eryk Salvaggio
A Personalized Ecology of AI
I'm three events into this tour talking about AI, and there's a question about the environment every time. What's the environmental impact of AI? In London, the question was a bit more pointed: How do I justify using AI as an artist, knowing the
Machines Cannot Feel or Think, but Humans Can, and Ought To
My new piece in Tech Policy Press is up, and it’s about the recent re-emergence of very silly chatter about whether AI “experiences the world” and therefore ought to have something akin to human rights. In the piece, I argue that they don’t need them. Here’s how
What Does It Mean to ‘use’ Generative AI?
Are pro and anti AI camps talking about the same thing when they say “useful”?
exhibitions
Possible Noise
A walk-through of the NCM's "Signal to Noise," a recently opened exhibition curated by Eryk Salvaggio, Joel Stern and Emily Siddons in Melbourne, that examines how artists have worked with noisy channels.
signal to noise
Signal to Noise (and Back Again)
Thoughts on noise, for the opening of “Signal to Noise” at the National Communication Museum in Melbourne.
Signal to Noise
Signal to Noise explores how artists work with, challenge, or complicate the relationship between signals and noise—disruptions, glitches or interference—in communication technologies and the messages they send.
dance
Unsorted Depths
Unsorted Depths visualizes the archive as a cultural formation but also charts the field of memory against the backdrop of noise.
tpp
Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century
Gaining traction in the bleakest depths of 2020, Generative AI offered something more than just a tech product. It proposed a way of reimagining the future.
Nixon Called
Over at Tech Policy Press, I wrote about the government commission that lead to the creation of the 1974 Privacy Act, and how an expanding AI state puts the values of privacy from government surveillance at risk. The Privacy Act was created as a response to the growing presence of
What's the point of AGI?
It's been a busy few weeks, but I'm on a panel for the latest podcast of Tech Policy Press' "Sunday Show" alongside Borhane Blili-Hamelin and Margaret Mitchell to discuss a paper we co-authored – with a slew of additional authors – called "Stop Treating
Pollen
Einstein Gazing at the Water
New work inspired by the history of diffusion and pollen.