We call it slop. That word shows up everywhere now, usually as a dismissal. Slop is the bad output. The extra fingers. The warped face. The sentence that sounds confident but collapses under scrutiny. Slop is treated as a bug, a temporary embarrassment on the way to cleaner systems and better models. But slop is […]
AI Creative Future Awards honors The Great American Pastime
At F.A.T. Lab, we think of technology as a cultural material. Code carries ideology. Interfaces shape belief. Systems teach us how the world works. That is why we pay close attention when new institutions emerge to frame what creative work with AI is supposed to be. The AI Creative Future Awards were founded to do exactly that. […]
SYNTHETIC LANDSCAPES
Landscapes in Flux: From Glitch to Oil Latent Fragments of a Synthetic Landscape is part of an ongoing investigation into how artificial intelligence, error, and traditional artistic practice intersect to reshape our understanding of landscape. Rather than presenting nature as a stable subject, the work refracts it through layers of computation and painterly translation. What […]