The Epistemologies of Slop | Art/Tech Exhibition Opening

Friday, Jun 26

7:00pm – 9:00pm

PTET

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While often used to describe excessive, AI-generated, engagement-optimized media, slop is increasingly becoming a dominant condition of contemporary culture. ​Epistemologies of Slop is an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess. Bringing together artists, technologists, designers, researchers, and system-builders, the exhibition investigates how truth, culture, and meaning are made in the age of AI-generated media. ​The exhibition approaches slop not only as an aesthetic, but as a social, technical, economic, and psychological condition. Some works critique slop. Others embrace it, aestheticize it, weaponize it, surrender to it, or reveal the strange new forms of culture emerging from within it. ​Through installations, performances, sculptures, interfaces, and experiments, Epistemologies of Slop asks: - ​What is slop? - How do we recognize truth signal or beauty in probabilistic environments? - What does slopulence make possible? - How does labor survive slopulism? - Can a sloptimist be saved? - Who benefits in the slopocene? - What comes after slop? - Is slop art? ​Epistemologies of Slop invites you to inhabit the uncertainties of our media futures and consider how knowledge, culture, and collective reality evolves in a world increasingly shaped by machines. ​— ​tiat ​is the intersection of art and technology! we are a 501c3 nonprofit creating places for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ Learn more about tiat: https://tiat.place/ Kindly consider a donation to the space. Your support directly keeps the doors open: covering space operations, staffing, programming, equipment, and the ecosystem of events that make TIAT a home for artists, engineers, and experimental thinkers. Donations are also tax-deductible, our EIN is: 39-3448606. https://givebutter.com/tiatplace

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