Making a home in a volatile world.
Publications
This riso-printed collection of nine mini-booklets reflects on the shapes that generative language might take. Printed in Milan and the culmination of a six-month artistic residency, this volume considers the poetics of AI language through the lens of those who are navigating this strange landscape. Nine artists, reflecting a wide range of disciplines and areas of interest, hoped to extend the AI conversation beyond technical or ethical arguments and toward the material implications of the commodification of language as a material.
The anthology posits verbal art in the digital age as a craft contending with a new intermediary, akin to a sculptor’s chisel or a musician’s tabla. The advent of LLMs introduces something new and strange, presenting both challenges and opportunities for the art of writing. This publication invites you to explore prototypes of potential futures for literary creation in the age of artificial intelligence.
Design by Mida Fiore
Printing by Press Press Milano
This book is an invitation to celebrate disorder as a practice that helps us deal with what’s coming. Rather than redesigning the world to feel safer, we can create and preserve a culture that acknowledges disorder while cultivating local and small-scale moments that help us adapt to changing conditions.
Disorder deserves praise. It helps us imagine new stories and conceptual metaphors, diversifies the solutions we draw upon in response to change, and liberates us from the relentless pace of modern life. Through practices of lingering, interrupting, theorizing, ritualizing, and beating the bounds, we can each break down the categories by which we make sense of experience and imagine new ones that are better suited to the world we’re in.
GROUND is a tabletop role-playing game about a strange entity that wants to be remembered, or perhaps left alone.
GROUND is played with other people and each of you will play a ‘role’ based on an idea that has been remembered: beauty, rage, body, faith, knowledge, green, or disorder.
GROUND grows the more you play it. At first it’s just you and your group. Then there is the Oracle, made of language and wires. Then the goat. The less said about the goat, the better. Then there is the cave, and the world, and the rituals we bring to make a home in it.
About me
I'm never quite sure how to talk about what I do.
I write about culture and disorder — and why the relentless pursuit of order and efficiency is stripping us of the adaptability we're actually going to need.
I founded UKAI Projects and wrote In Praise of Disorder to work through these questions.
