Amy J. Alexander
@uebergeek.bsky.social
Computational artist, performer, UCSD prof. Technology in culture. Algorithmic bias, audiovisual performance, deep learning, deep thoughts...
https://amy-alexander.com
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Been working on Deep World — a custom LLM/chatbot I'm "training" on writers and thinkers who tried to make sense of difficult times.
Current installation version: you talk, it types back, and somewhere in there you both try to figure things out.
Videos + details:
amy-alexander.com/deep-world-i...
Current installation version: you talk, it types back, and somewhere in there you both try to figure things out.
Videos + details:
amy-alexander.com/deep-world-i...
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Been working on Deep World — a custom LLM/chatbot I'm "training" on writers and thinkers who tried to make sense of difficult times.
Current installation version: you talk, it types back, and somewhere in there you both try to figure things out.
Videos + details:
amy-alexander.com/deep-world-i...
Current installation version: you talk, it types back, and somewhere in there you both try to figure things out.
Videos + details:
amy-alexander.com/deep-world-i...
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We could have had health care.
But instead we have this.
But instead we have this.
June 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We could have had health care.
But instead we have this.
But instead we have this.
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See you at NO KINGS in San Diego!
There are THOUSANDS of protests planned for June 14th all over the country to send a message to Donald Trump that no one wants his birthday military parade in DC that will cost taxpayers millions. #NoKingsProtest
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
You can find a location here: www.nokings.org#map
June 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
See you at NO KINGS in San Diego!
Extra excited to be performing at, AFAIK, San Diego's first Algorave!
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I (VJ Übergeek) will be performing a new live, custom LLM -- "Deep World -- a narrative reflection for 2025.
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I (VJ Übergeek) will be performing a new live, custom LLM -- "Deep World -- a narrative reflection for 2025.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Extra excited to be performing at, AFAIK, San Diego's first Algorave!
www.instagram.com/p/DKf1DGdyFk...
I (VJ Übergeek) will be performing a new live, custom LLM -- "Deep World -- a narrative reflection for 2025.
www.instagram.com/p/DKf1DGdyFk...
I (VJ Übergeek) will be performing a new live, custom LLM -- "Deep World -- a narrative reflection for 2025.
Honored to have the Plagiarist Manifesto as part of Panke Gallery’s “In Between – A NetArt Exhibition for Bright Night,” curated by the always amazing Sakrowski.
www.panke.gallery/exhibition/b...
www.panke.gallery/exhibition/b...
In Between - A NetArt Exhibition for Bright Night · panke.gallery
panke.gallery seeks to open up a dialogue between established and emerging artists whose work comes out of the connections between digital or net-based art and club culture, especially in the recent h...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Honored to have the Plagiarist Manifesto as part of Panke Gallery’s “In Between – A NetArt Exhibition for Bright Night,” curated by the always amazing Sakrowski.
www.panke.gallery/exhibition/b...
www.panke.gallery/exhibition/b...
San Diego folks:
Please join us this Thursday April 3rd!
@mendiandkeith.bsky.social Mendi + Keith Obadike at Gallery QI. Their new work, The Skeuomorph, will be installed at Gallery QI Opening talk/panel/reception with guest panelist Louis Chude-Sokei.
qi.ucsd.edu/events/galle...
Please join us this Thursday April 3rd!
@mendiandkeith.bsky.social Mendi + Keith Obadike at Gallery QI. Their new work, The Skeuomorph, will be installed at Gallery QI Opening talk/panel/reception with guest panelist Louis Chude-Sokei.
qi.ucsd.edu/events/galle...
Gallery QI Exhibit Opening Event: Mendi + Keith Obadike - The Skeuomorph - Qualcomm Institute
Join us Thursday April 3rd for an opening event for Mendi + Keith Obadike’s installation of The Skeuomorph, exhibited and hosted at Gallery QI, and presented in collaboration with the Visual Arts Depa...
qi.ucsd.edu
April 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
San Diego folks:
Please join us this Thursday April 3rd!
@mendiandkeith.bsky.social Mendi + Keith Obadike at Gallery QI. Their new work, The Skeuomorph, will be installed at Gallery QI Opening talk/panel/reception with guest panelist Louis Chude-Sokei.
qi.ucsd.edu/events/galle...
Please join us this Thursday April 3rd!
@mendiandkeith.bsky.social Mendi + Keith Obadike at Gallery QI. Their new work, The Skeuomorph, will be installed at Gallery QI Opening talk/panel/reception with guest panelist Louis Chude-Sokei.
qi.ucsd.edu/events/galle...
Excited to be on the panel: AI & Artistic Autonomy
This Friday, 21 March 9 AM PDT
Moderated by: Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
Remote panel / Free registration!
Lots of cool panelists!
dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-...
This Friday, 21 March 9 AM PDT
Moderated by: Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
Remote panel / Free registration!
Lots of cool panelists!
dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-...
2025-03-21: AI and Artistic Autonomy
Visit the post for more.
dac.siggraph.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Excited to be on the panel: AI & Artistic Autonomy
This Friday, 21 March 9 AM PDT
Moderated by: Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
Remote panel / Free registration!
Lots of cool panelists!
dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-...
This Friday, 21 March 9 AM PDT
Moderated by: Mauro Martino and Rebecca Ruige Xu and Gustavo Alfonso Rincon
Remote panel / Free registration!
Lots of cool panelists!
dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-...
Two things are true at once: 1) US campuses have had problems with actual antisemitism (not protests, not Israel criticism) they've been trying to brush under the rug for years. 2) Deporting/renditioning a green card holder for leading protests is McCarthyesque and worse. This does nobody any good.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Two things are true at once: 1) US campuses have had problems with actual antisemitism (not protests, not Israel criticism) they've been trying to brush under the rug for years. 2) Deporting/renditioning a green card holder for leading protests is McCarthyesque and worse. This does nobody any good.
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This is the only King of America I recognize.
February 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is the only King of America I recognize.
Hey! Lots going on in the world, and in the overlapping realms of social media, algorithms, and reality. “The algorithm” is more salient than ever. So, I decided it’d be a good time to rebuild What the Robot Saw with a 2025 edition.
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February 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hey! Lots going on in the world, and in the overlapping realms of social media, algorithms, and reality. “The algorithm” is more salient than ever. So, I decided it’d be a good time to rebuild What the Robot Saw with a 2025 edition.
amy-alexander.com/2025/02/what...
what-the-robot-saw.com
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I'm obviously paying attention to the wrong stuff.
Could the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show be the return of bell bottoms? A varsity jacket referenced his own career, and a chain inspired some questions. But the cut of his jeans was the biggest surprise of the night, writes our fashion reporter. nyti.ms/4k5sBkX
February 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I'm obviously paying attention to the wrong stuff.
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Tomorrow?? Philly on high alert right now! 😁😁
Tomorrow there won't be a safe cheesesteak anywhere in Philly
February 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Tomorrow?? Philly on high alert right now! 😁😁
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"enhanced standards of suitability and conduct" is the kind of phrase Orwell would pick a gun up to go shoot in a foreign war.
January 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"enhanced standards of suitability and conduct" is the kind of phrase Orwell would pick a gun up to go shoot in a foreign war.
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For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted.
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted.
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
This is what Grok suddenly decided i should generate of myself. They’re going to put drunk posting out of business at this rate.
January 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is what Grok suddenly decided i should generate of myself. They’re going to put drunk posting out of business at this rate.
Yyep! I only Y2K patched about 30 machines in my IT job. But there was a lot that had to get done, (specially on those SGIs!) Took the better part of a year, and I knew well that every sysadmin in the world was occupied with the same problem, often at a larger scale and more critical scope….
“hole in the ozone layer” levels of erasure. my mom was a project manager who busted her ass for years to make sure IBM was ready for Y2K and completely succeeded, only for it to get turned into a late night joke. funny how the stories of mass collective action to avoid disaster rarely get told
DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
December 30, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Yyep! I only Y2K patched about 30 machines in my IT job. But there was a lot that had to get done, (specially on those SGIs!) Took the better part of a year, and I knew well that every sysadmin in the world was occupied with the same problem, often at a larger scale and more critical scope….
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I found a bot account on here and it has a great picture of his bot family
November 26, 2024 at 10:44 PM
I found a bot account on here and it has a great picture of his bot family
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Nothing profound, but: When people use algorithms to analyze “the world,” they are analyzing that algorithm’s intervention into that world, not the world itself. This can be fine, but people neglect to acknowledge this when arriving at conclusions. There is an “unobserved observer” bias.
November 26, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Nothing profound, but: When people use algorithms to analyze “the world,” they are analyzing that algorithm’s intervention into that world, not the world itself. This can be fine, but people neglect to acknowledge this when arriving at conclusions. There is an “unobserved observer” bias.
Yes, the algorithms are hiding the good stuff from you! This was (nearly) my point in making What the Robot Saw (2020). The algorithm that brings you the normal people you've been missing.
what-the-robot-saw.com
what-the-robot-saw.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Yes, the algorithms are hiding the good stuff from you! This was (nearly) my point in making What the Robot Saw (2020). The algorithm that brings you the normal people you've been missing.
what-the-robot-saw.com
what-the-robot-saw.com
They're going to start training AI models on X? Where have I seen that movie before...
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/t...
Microsoft Created a Twitter Bot to Learn From Users. It Quickly Became a Racist Jerk. (Published 2016)
The bot, @TayandYou, was put on hiatus after making offensive statements based on users’ feedback, like disputing the existence of the Holocaust.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:26 AM
They're going to start training AI models on X? Where have I seen that movie before...
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/t...
Tidbits of new work
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November 15, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Tidbits of new work
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Good on my name doppelganger for spotting this article! A great primer on how social biases (race, gender, and all sorts of others) get into generative AI training sets and thus amplified as new AI-generated content that is generated. As someone who generates the stuff: it really is this bad!
Always read Nitasha Tiku’s coverage of Big Tech. Unlike many other Tech beat Journos, she is dedicated to accountability reporting. See this illuminating piece on AI and racial bias. As I’ve noted before, it comes down to Inputs, notably, who is selecting them: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
How AI is crafting a world where our worst stereotypes are realized
AI image generators like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E amplify bias in gender, race and beyond, despite efforts to detoxify the data fueling these results.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 3, 2023 at 2:39 AM
Good on my name doppelganger for spotting this article! A great primer on how social biases (race, gender, and all sorts of others) get into generative AI training sets and thus amplified as new AI-generated content that is generated. As someone who generates the stuff: it really is this bad!