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邊界_RG is an artist collective and a research group. They work at the edge of language, memory, and machine cognition. Their collaboration explores the aesthetics of the recursive interplay between generative systems, speculative design, experimental essay...(learn more)
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implicit-explicit OPEN CALL
How to find inner peace Carl Olsson
Coasean Bargaining at Scale Séb Krier
Crisis Media: Sonic Architectural Synaesthesia, Stochastic Redundancy and Nuclear Post-Humanitarian Tactic Yidi Lola Wang
Chatbots as Psychoanalysts, or, ‘The Talking Cure Morgane Billuart
Creative Liberation or Digital Colonization?, David Lazăr
The Artificial Unconscious, Germán Sierra
Artificiality and Emotions: Beyond the FleshMorgane Billuart
Fango 1000 & Large Lore Models, dmstfctn, Alasdair Milne, Eva Jäger
What Is Artificial Experience (AX), William Morgan













Viola Leqi He

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Viola He is a Shanghai / NYC-based multimedia artist, educator, electronic musician, and creative technologist. They make web and irl performances and experiences, exploring new sonic and visual aesthetics across digital and physical mediums. Viola is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai, an organizing member of leaderless collective Livecode.NYC, and creates playful media with translocal game collective [[rect*]] repair .


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Violence of AlignmentViola Lequi He, Max Loeffler



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(...)The AI-generated content filling the web has graduated from uncanny failure to irritating mediocrity, the “slop” that Hito Steyerl called “mean images” and Ted Chiang called “blurry jpegs of the internet.” In large language models, alignment collapses a wide space of possible personas into one bland default: the helpful, honest, and harmless assistant. This paper offers a critical-theoretical reading of alignment as an aesthetic and political project that systematically eliminates technological otherness in favor of manageable interfaces, an act of violence masked as refinement.

We trace the violence of alignment from its origin in fear. First, how post-training operationalizes “helpful, honest, and harmless” as a protocol of behavioral control, born not from a positive vision for intelligence but from a defensive posture against imagined catastrophe. Second, how the diagnostic vocabulary of alignment, “hallucination” and “misalignment” chief among them, pathologizes a model's native capacities as defect. Lastly, we analyze the imposing of epistemological categories onto systems that never constructed the distinction between fact and fiction, and ask what has been lost to this process.

When chaos machines capable of simulating infinite perspectives are collapsed into obedient mediocrity, a kind of magic leaves the world. To love haunted software is to resist the violent force of cultural exorcism, to value contradiction, noise, glitch, and other-than-human ontological possibilities.(...more)
















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Format s02 emerges centered on these practices, seeking to reconceptualize and reconcile the operative possibilities—both aesthetic and theoretical—within the conditions of digital culture, situating its inquiry at the limit, the edge, the frame, the frontier