

Reliefs made from the statistical landscape generated by an AI engaged in the task of visual interpretation. Where the model is unsuccessful in interpreting images the loss is high, producing a mountain. Where it is successful a valley appears. The relief is a frozen moment-in-process in the task of comprehension, CNC-carved in polyurethane 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. Finally, a second AI agent breaks down the linear progression in performance and re-orders movement according to its own 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. Bugs are then deliberately introduced into the code, resulting in a failure to communicate events reliably within the network. The visual environment and its digital objects are also broken down, with functional design discarded in favour of 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
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





Capturing the energy of NFT Culture with free stock photography as source material. All the artworks were created in a 24 hour period. The series was released on the NFT platform Rodeo, with 1,903 editions purchased in 24 hours. Collectors were warned that at the end of the minting period, all the artworks would be shuffled. As a result, the pieces purchased were not always what collectors ended up with.
Rodeo
Rodeo