Come explore the final exhibition for the Creative Futures Counterstructures Residency, a 10-week cultural R&D residency by tiat in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation.
Throughout the program, our residents have explored each rule of the Hollywood 8 Rules for AI via workshops and performance lectures led by researchers and artists from Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, Earth Species Project, and more.
The exhibition will feature artifacts from our residents:
Althea Rao is a conceptual artist with a social practice whose work investigates how data infrastructures shape knowledge. Using algorithmic processes, physical computing, biomaterials, craft, and embodied performance, they translate abstract political questions about memory and documentation into material form. Their recent installation Commit to Memory, Know it will Perish interrogates the perishability and permanence of memory, data, and history while reimagining archival ethics and the role of non-human agents in biomanufacturing systems that store human data as DNA. Their broader practice spans projects that challenge dominant models of documentation and propose alternative ways knowledge circulates across time and space.
Avital Meshi is a new media and performance artist whose practice examines how AI reshapes human identity, perception, and social life. Since 2017, they have worked with AI systems through wearables, interactive installations, and live interventions that bring the technology directly into the body and into social exchange. Their projects invite audiences into active, sometimes unsettling encounters where AI reframes communication, alters relational dynamics, and exposes the tensions between agency and automation. Through performances and installations, they create situations that reveal AI’s impact on thought and behavior while offering space to critique its logics and imagine alternative futures.
Cheng Xu is a toolmaker, technology curator, and community organizer whose work spans interactive systems, community storytelling projects, and technology-driven public installations. Their work has been exhibited internationally and featured by BBC, Core77, and MSNBC. They hold an MS in Human-Robot Interaction from Yale University and an MFA in Interactive Art from Carnegie Mellon University.
Halim Madi's work explores the tension between language, memory, and computation through poetic interfaces, unconventional AI systems, and performance. With a background in both product design and performance, he investigates which voices technology remembers and which it erases, building “poetic infrastructures” for unruly and emotional language by fine-tuning models on unsent texts, journals, dream logs, and personal archives. His performances and installations often feel intimate and unpredictable—a shifting collaboration between audience and model—and center the body as the missing link in most AI art, reconnecting computation with presence, gesture, and care.
Héloïse Garry is an artist working at the intersection of music, performance, and technology, drawing on a background as a classically trained pianist and later as a composer and technologist working across Paris, New York, and East Asia. Their recent work uses machine learning to build feedback-based performance systems that transform voice and gesture into dynamic instruments, positioning AI as an active collaborator in live performance. Their research on these systems has been presented at ICMC, NIME, and the Audio Engineering Society, contributing to ongoing conversations about how emerging technologies reshape musical practice and performance.
Jordan Metz is an experimental artist, researcher, and creative producer working across digital and physical media, using 3D scanning, digital fabrication, ceramics, and audiovisual programming to connect the real and virtual worlds. Their practice centers the body as an interface and probes the global infrastructures that undergird digital life, often through interactive computer-vision systems that explore embodied relationships with technology. Their work has been exhibited at CultureHub NYC, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Rosebud Gallery SF, and RISD, where their interactive MFA thesis The Me I’ve Made For You was shortlisted for the Artsthread x Gucci Global Design Graduate Show. They also conducted artistic research as part of the RISD x Hyundai Motor Group Research Collaborative.
Nocellcoverage is the studio practice of multidisciplinary artist and designer Matt Faller. The studio explores the evolving relationship between technology, nature, and materiality. By combining physical and digital media, Nocellcoverage investigates how digital tools can preserve, reinterpret, and expand our understanding of the material world. Projects created by the studio act as ongoing studies focused on preservation, perception, and participation.
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