I came across Saidiya Hartman’s writing on critical fabulation while trying to make sense of my own impulse to work with fragments, false starts, and speculative forms. Hartman’s work, rooted in the gaps and violences of Black history, is specific in its focus, and I …
I use AI to prototype rapidly, not to finish things faster, but to open up visual and conceptual space. A single prompt, especially one drawn from museological or archaeological language, might generate dozens or hundreds of image variations. I scan for what I call a …
Simulation is never neutral. It is a performance of coherence, often mistaken for truth. In the digital era, images do not document. They generate belief. AI-driven simulations, from deepfakes to fabricated artifacts, do not merely mimic reality; they reshape it, faster and more convincingly than …
It’s not my responsibility to defend or justify the ethics of AI. My work is not about endorsing or rejecting the technology, but about critically engaging with it. I use AI as a speculative tool, a flawed oracle, that reveals the biases, gaps, and fragmentation …
In my work, I use AI—particularly text-to-image tools like Midjourney and DALL·E—not to represent history, but to critique how history is constructed, remembered, and often misremembered. These platforms generate images without direct reference to real artifacts, producing simulated visual records that feel archival but have …
Four of my mosaic watercolour paintings on handmade paper will be included in the upcoming See You Next Thursday X Visionary Art Projects exhibition and online flat files at 124 Forsyth Street, New York. See You Next Thursday is at the forefront of discovering fresh …
Published on Vantage Art Projects Jennifer Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel (1941) is a nightmare of knowledge, an infinite archive where every possible book exists, yet …
The upcoming March 2025 issue of Passing Notes will include the publication of a short review I authored on the work of Jenn Cacciola. Passing Notes can be found here.
PeepSpace presents its fourth iteration of the Flat File Program. Featuring small works by twenty-two artists, the flat file program highlights the efforts of a diverse group of artists working in varied mediums and approaches. The twenty-two artists featured in the 2024 Flat File Program: …
Memory Palace I will be installed in the group show “If not a note, a chasm” curated by Nepture in June for MAPSpace, 6 N Pearl Street, Port Chester, NY. The exhibition will run from June 1 to 22nd. If Not a Note, a Chasm …