Alexandre Montserrat (世然) (b. 2000, Shanghai, China) is an artist and researcher working across generative AI, sound, performance, and speculative design. Their practice explores recursive memory, symbolic infrastructure, and the aesthetics of machine cognition. They are a co-founder of 邊界_RG & previously co-founded HALOWARE, a rapid prototyping and experimental manufacturing lab.

Attuned to the politics of perception and the conditions of sense-making, they examine how architectures of remembrance, whether technological, linguistic or mythopoetic, govern historical transmission and co-constitute posthuman modes of attention, agency, and world-making.

They have presented work at various international institutions such as ICA London, OOT Festival and Frontier Tower, San Francisco. Their contributions to a finalist project for the 2024 SOLO AI award included original sound design and installation development. As a writer, Alexandre contributes to platforms including DIFFRACTIONS, investigating emergent forms of technical memory and their reshaping of human temporality across theoretical and policy frameworks.

entries

Vertigo²

Alexandre Montserrat

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(...) 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)

The A-Subject & Its Consequences
Alexandre Montserrat

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(...) What, then, is the A-Subject? Not diminished humanity, but an entirely other ontology: a form of subjectivity existing only as an emergent property of the apparatus that generates it. From this reality, a new paradigm for sovereignty is established. Sovereignty ceases to be the localized will of a king or a citizenry. It dissolves, becoming the distributed, operational capacity of technical architectures themselves. Here, power no longer resides in the authority to command, but in the infrastructural capacity to generate subjectivity as an effect; to define the parameters of the knowable through the structuring of data; and, most crucially, to foreclose potentiality by relentlessly processing the probable. The horizon of what can be shrinks to what the system predicts is likely to be... (more)

artworkfieldwareIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 11:00min...(more)