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Reliefs made from the landscape generated by an AI engaged in the task of visual comprehension. Where the model is unsuccessful in interpreting images of the world the loss is high, producing mountains. These statistical landscapes are then imported into a 3D modelling program then CNC-carved into polyurethane sheet. Some pieces are further worked into with an electrical drill by hand. The surface is covered with acrylic and reflective clear coat. 
Work in progress: A Reinforcement Learning AI agent learns to control a quadruped body from scratch. The performance optimisation process takes several days and includes millions of steps, as the model progresses from incapability to competence. These behaviours are then transferred onto 3D scans of real humans, which are ‘re-skinned’ with metal, stone and other materials. Following this, a second AI agent analyses the linear progression in performance and re-orders movement according to aesthetic goals, resulting in a variety of different behavioural patterns played out in real-time.







A shared 3D relational space that lives on the blockchain. Mass is a surveillance machine, recording every action its 300 owners take on the network and communicating them back to the group through changes in the dynamic 3D compositions. New features are then introduced into the code which result in a failure to communicate events reliably within the network. The visual environment and its digital objects are also processed until they break down. Functional design is superceded by shared presence.
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‘Without their market, most NFTs would simply be digital art, like back when people still talked about computer art,
net art and new media art without the blockchain and everyone knew what was meant.
Without the blockchain and its market, MASS by James Bloom could not live.’

Anika Meier
Imagine NFTs Are Alive



Reliefs carved with a 3-axis CNC router into polyurethane model board. All the objects appearing in the works are taken from popular online 3D object libraries. The artworks mimic complex and opaque production processes used for the manufacturing of new and desirable aesthetic and artistic products through appropriation and refinement. Exhibited at Strouk Gallery, Paris.