What is Artificial Experience (AX)? Why the Application Layer Is the Interface and the Human Is the Limit
William Morgan
publications HAIID Interfaces LLMS Artificial Experience Epistemology
Multi Agent Systems Infrastructural Ontology Infrastructure Turn Experience
(...)Artificial experience does not refer to just any technologically mediated interaction; it is precisely the kind of experience that is uniquely enabled by AI’s infrastructural properties. AX asks explicitly: 'What experiential affordances can AI uniquely deliver that no other medium, tool, or infrastructure could?' This question is infrastructural specificity in action, which I take to be a hallmark of AX design.
Furthermore, AX only emerges when the infrastructural intelligence of AI becomes ubiquitous enough to disappear into habit. In other words, experience is what remains when infrastructure is no longer visible. For this reason, AX design is not about the direct perception of intelligence, but rather the surprising, yet welcome experiences that you didn't anticipate but are glad to encounter...(more)
Design in Rising Winds28.07.2025.PAR.FRA
publications Ecology Carbon markets Gamification Geo-Engineering Planetary Infrastructure
HAIID Assemblage Theory Chinese Cosmology Policy Governance
(...) What might we learn from materials that refuse our models? Nora Khan proposes thinking of AI as "as a primordial force of nature, like a star system or a hurricane — something strong, but indifferent."50 Perhaps sand offers another metaphor: intelligence as that which slips between categories, accumulating into new forms through its very resistance to capture. As Catherine Malabou states, "Intelligence 'is' not; rather, it only exists through its own transformations."51 These demon cities and herd kindergartens show us perhaps that notions that have come to define our species–intelligence, evolution–emerge precisely from where our models fail. What might science look like when it mirrors the incoherent, the unsound, and the anomalous? In a project describing future human-AI interactions,...(more)
OPEN CALL
for a publication
25/07/2025-01/09/2025publications
essay researchers writers curators theorists artists
open call AI art LLMs digital culture new media technology cybernetics blockchain art market web3 interfce aesthetics epistemology
This call seeks essays that engage with these questions through critical inquiry, theoretical articulation, or experimental analysis. Submissions should explore how the intersection of language, algorithmic processes, and experimental aesthetic productions generate new cultural epistemologies. We are particularly interested in contributions that interrogate how AI-driven and software-based practices redefine aesthetic methodologies, artistic materiality, and the political economy of contemporary art...(more)
What we do in the shadows
publications
dark forest representation intelligence AI cybernetics
computation cognition policy economy LLMs
(...)When ‘seeing in the light is blindness’24, and when the epistemology of light is being replaced by an epistemology of
darkness, can we still think of contemporary computation, and thus AI alignment, as something which mirrors
human thoughts and values?
Artist Diemut Strebe and Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, collaborated on an arts and
science project to create the blackest black material to date. In an interview Wardle proposes that the darkest
material is ‘is a constantly moving target’25. The aerospace community celebrates darkness to prevent glare; perhaps
this same principle needs to be redirected toward alignment research. As Pasquinelli asks, “will darkness ever have
its own medium of communication? Will it ever be possible to envision a medium that operates via negation,
abduction, absence, the void, and the non-luminous?”...(more)
The A-Subject & Its Consequences14.07.2025.PAR.FRA
publications sovereignty memory posthuman technical memory temporality
media
archaeology subjectification mourning automation
Lexical Report of the Linguistic Visualization Test Program
Based on Relational Meaning and
Etymological Coordinates
publication artwork LLMs new media
cybernetics language program abstraction economy
generative
(...) wall, it, with animal, inhuman, appear, cavernous, word, close-up, surface, black, eye, not, is, an, reflect, code, trait, overcoded, produced, dimension, percept, proper, story, flesh, volume, dream, model, signifier, construct, before, distinction, system, general, pain, no, eyes, even, necessary, new, polyvocal, structure, drift, holes, horror, light, or, and, sometimes, process, trace, all, face, the, of, should, are, coded, holey, order, also, crystalline, what, just, thing, at, circumstances, begin, has, error, head, facialized, cannot, said, operation, hole, unconscious, function, without, combination, dance, already, never, remains, white, but, signify, visible, as, overcoding, skin, cavity, coordinates, configuration, which, inflection, emerge, to, begins, exactly, map, there, possible, dimensionless, more, become, arises, this, a, always, can, something, resemblance, dark, precisely, things, necessity, state, than, that, signified...(more)
Text Box: Eschatology of the Digital Visage
Algorithmic Flesh and Confessional Aesthetics in the Work of Ian Margo
01.07.2025
publication artworks LLMs new media
cybernetics language video abstraction economy
(...) In this sense, its failure is generative. To fail to be computable is to refuse the enclosure of meaning. Margo’s work is, once again, not Turing-Computable, it’s Deleuze-Computable, that is to say; demonically machinic. To become unbaptized data is to remain in the domain of the Real. Like the Eucharist consumed without transubstantiation, the Wet Box leaves a pure residue, an aftertaste of what should have become body, and didn’t; it became flesh. The interface compounds the syntax error in stutters. The glitch is a processual breaking in execution and expectation. We expected sense. We were given endless remainder – lack...(more)
fieldware
2025, digital video,
color, sound 16:9 4K,
11:00min
Ian Margo
artwork LLMs new media interface language cybernetics video abstraction economy
(...) fieldware is a linguistic exploration of the object and its potential constitution through sign and mediation. Addressing openness and the complex-hole, this project generates experimental avenues around abstraction as the production of meaning. Through ‘what comes off’, ‘fieldware’ emerges as a redundancy, a broken rhythmic play, a collapse of vanishing lines, presenting field and ware, background and background, thus working the sign as a gesture that stretches over a flat line until it is interrupted by the brutal form of the immediate...(more)
Vertigo²
publication LLMs memory language cognition abstraction policy
(...) Historical representation's progressive unmooring from positivist certitude, its recognition as a discursively and mythically shaped domain, discovers a potent contemporary inflection with Large Language Models. Such systems appear, offering less passive archival functions or neutral narrative conduits, more formidable ‘writing machines’ actively operationalising the construction of historical understanding. An LLM, in this capacity, presents an unprecedented historiographical agent. It moves beyond recording or interpreting the past to effectively generate textual instantiations, guided by an intrinsic, data-derived logic...(more)
Third Extension,
a brief essay on technology and language
23.03.2025.BC.SP
publication artwork LLMs new media cybernetics language video abstraction economy
(...) “third extension”digital video, color, sound, single channel, 1080p 16:9 08:42min) emerges as an aesthetic exercise of abstraction and artificialization of the face through these recursive dynamics of encoding and recoding the sign. In this way, it proposes the staging, through images and text boxes, of a multidimensional relational environment that constructs dynamics of resignification and production of faciality. This project explores the aesthetics of the opposition between environments that are not given but are part of an ongoing construction by accumulation...(more)
After Notre Dame
/ burning_church / techno-linguistic program for the Artic Circle12.01.2025
publication collaboration cybernetics language memory abstraction economy computation interface policy theory-fiction
(...) When the ocean retreats, an extensive desert emerges / the museum lies across it, 9 days on foot, 1 more day for the cult. We studied the cathedral's blueprints hoping to find signs of the assassination / my beloved new face is built upon abstract machines. It narrates the face being performed, the burning territory / in a dream, the cathedral was burning. The verticality of the structure / the verticality of the fire / manifested the mediocrity of the fall, its numbness. We imagined forests surrounding the ruins of what we had annihilated / burning_church rises from my beloved new face or, rather, detaches from it, taking the form of a museum in a desert; you will reach this -final- place, and, once arrived, there will be nothing left to do / Arabesque Dune / the face in burning_church emerges around the mask - "worship of the body" / body in flames / the flute inside Saddam’s bunker, and the air runs out...(more)
the wet box
2025, digital video,
color, sound 16:9 4K,
10:10min
artwork LLMs new media interface language cybernetics video abstraction economy
(...)the wet box is recursion that fails / the object (solid, geometric) cannot be defined / the body conforms to exteriorities, wrapped, faces wrapped. the wet box is a cyberspace cut like a spiral, an incomplete turn. Fracture of language, possibility of opening. “If a horse is plasticized, it cannot be ridden”. Technology is part of feedback systems that constitute cognition...(more)
Ruins without nostalgia
2024.SP
publication memory language abstraction
(...) What remains after an event? Does language prevail over an image or a sound in presenting “that which remains”? Edmund Burke invokes Milton: “(Over) many a dark and dreary (valley) They (passed), and many a region dolorous; (Over) many a frozen, many a fiery Alp; Rocks, caves, lakes, dens, bogs, fens, and shades of Death”. Burke contends: “This idea or this affection caused by a word (Death), which nothing but a word could annex to the others…”.1 In this saying, the ways of romantic visual arts are too articulate to lend proper care to indeterminacy. Retrospectively we might argue that Burke contemplated abstraction exclusively as “thought” realised in language but I´d rather follow a different inquiry. Burke also conceives descriptive language an insufficient correlate of the object described; this, he observes, is not a problem of clarity but intensity. To bridge the difference...(more)
my beloved new face
2024, digital video,
color, sound 16:9 4K,
06:00min
artwork faciality LLMs new media interface
language cybernetics video abstraction economy
(...) my beloved new face / burning_church ushers in a demonic scenario; the face arrives, a synthetic technology, a network-hole that possesses agency. The face of the father, the face of the son / a body that mutates after the invasion of the home-territory, recodes the economy //οἰκονομία//. my beloved new face / burning_church is a failed invasion, vastly spread over a viscous surface, corrupted by the narrative of history and its maps and its signs. It burns over the desert, the enlightened models crumble, the light comes now from [digital fire] in low quality. It turns back on itself, on a still-frame that documents a moment of collapse. The face is an artifact, an inanimate demon, a technical system of...(more)
GATE-1
2024, digital video, multi-channel
color, sound 4:3, HD,
05:00min
artwork eroticism new media interface
language new flesh video abstraction entropy
(...) GATE-1 is the video-archive of the gestural performativity of the potential organism (Figure 1). It is originally composed of three organs capable of rotating, expanding, retracting, and moving through spaces. Figure 1 serves as a tool for the production and experimentation of performative (gestural) languages. F1 has been constructed as an eroticized organism: flesh in terribilità with an ultimate purpose. We observe it exhibiting itself, static, as if it were an object, during the first technical intervention. F1 mutates, seeks to advance, a fourth organ is added, and it crawls. Here, entropy comes into play...(more)
Touch Down, Entropocene2024.LDN.UK
publication collaboration LLMs memory language cognition abstraction policy
(...) The overarching theme is admitting that value alignment inherently involve expansions in how we currently conceptualise ethics and value formation itself. Social choice framings can help, but will likely need to be interwoven with perspectives pushing the constraints of anthropic boundaries.
Computation enabled radical overhauls of various epistemologies over time. Likewise, advanced value learners may ultimately produce ethical reasoners and value structures that transcend and reshape our current anthropic framings — a transformation we must prepare for through new theoretical formalisms, empirical auditing infrastructure, and open-ended architectures explicitly designed for continual ethical reorganisation and diversification...(more)