Michael Salu
michelsalu.bsky.social
Michael Salu
@michelsalu.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary actioner.
📕RED EARTH out now from Calamari Archive
📙CYBERNETICS, OR GHOSTS? : Stories from Myth to A.I out now from Subtext Books
archives & AI 7 March https://shorturl.at/VMji6
https://michaelsalu.com/
Pinned
Our show 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine', is now open at The Photographer's Gallery, London until June 15. It's a work encouraging new ways of seeing.

The exhibition extends online at unthinking.photography

#ai #contemporaryphotography #filmmaking #artfilm #airesearch
My book, Red Earth, is two years old this month and I'm intrigued by this new quantum experiment by scientists that revealed time seemed to loop and fold back on itself.

Red Earth engages pre-existing non-linear time concepts through Yoruba knowledge systems (prior to quantum validation)
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You can join our artist talk online tomorrow at 6.30pm GMT with The Photographers'​ Gallery London for our current exhibition. AI, archival photography, animation, filmmaking and more thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/art...

#ai #airesearch #filmmaking #contemporaryphotography
June 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Now also available through
Metalabel with a very affordable $7 epub+pdf version inc. the album. Check it out! #ai #calvino #newbooks
subtext-books.metalabel.com/cybernetics-...
Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to A.I. — Book and music compilation
Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansiv...
subtext-books.metalabel.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I joined Graywolf Lab for a roundtable discussion about games and gaming in life and art. The episode includes extracts from our writing. Also features Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Elissa Washuta.
graywolflab.org
Graywolf Lab
interdisciplinary conversations and new writing from Graywolf Press
graywolflab.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
From my Chrome browser hack series. #python #computervision
May 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The single shot films in our exhibition 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine' now open @thephotographersgallery, are structured by a four point concept, which I'll share a little of in this and subsequent posts.

No. 1: The photograph.
April 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reading list:
April 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Currently on the same latitude line west of it's place of origin. #prosepoetry #experimentalwriting #Dante #indiebooks
April 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Michael Salu
Revisiting Cybernetics & Ghosts by @michelsalu.bsky.social - "a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay of the same name to reflect on the expansive role technology plays in our lives and in literature today." Get lost in the future here bit.ly/3ZnKAXV
Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing | WritersMosaic Magazine
WritersMosaic explores the digital future of writing with Michael Salu, Tice Cin, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Sara Saab, Irenosen Okojie Abeba Birhane
bit.ly
March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Big thanks to WritersMosaic for republishing my guest edition which launched the thought experiment leading to the anthology 'Cybernetics, or Ghosts?' check out some excellent short pieces & a look back to my essay. How much has changed? #ai #creativewriting
writersmosaic.org.uk/content/cybe...
Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing | WritersMosaic Magazine
WritersMosaic explores the digital future of writing with Michael Salu, Tice Cin, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Sara Saab, Irenosen Okojie Abeba Birhane
writersmosaic.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Michael Salu
Our show 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine', is now open at The Photographer's Gallery, London until June 15. It's a work encouraging new ways of seeing.

The exhibition extends online at unthinking.photography

#ai #contemporaryphotography #filmmaking #artfilm #airesearch
March 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our show 'I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine', is now open at The Photographer's Gallery, London until June 15. It's a work encouraging new ways of seeing.

The exhibition extends online at unthinking.photography

#ai #contemporaryphotography #filmmaking #artfilm #airesearch
March 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thank you, Anrick. Great to see you there and glad you found it interesting. Important to have these conversations
A new exhibition at The Photographers Gallery, inspiring use of LLM’s to interrogate the dreams of Al and show how it repeats the racial paradigms that defined colonial extraction in the late 19th century. By @michelsalu.bsky.social #PlanetaryPortals
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I wrote this book into, and for, the future we're currently unfolding #prose #prosepoetry #climate
February 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In here you can catch my talk at Central St. Martin's university on how language relates to a changing climate www.youtube.com/live/fISqCjY...

#ai #llms #climate #language #technology
Earthsuits: Context, Conditions, Culture
YouTube video by Central Saint Martins
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Michael Salu
Few copies left of my limited ed. chapbook with
Tangerine Press. An updated version of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH? : AI, SUBJECTIVITY, COLONIALISM AND DREAMING OF EQUITABLE COMPUTATIONAL FUTURES.

Photo from The Red Earth Project

thetangerinepress.com/WALKING%20WO...

#ai #airesearch
February 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Few copies left of my limited ed. chapbook with
Tangerine Press. An updated version of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH? : AI, SUBJECTIVITY, COLONIALISM AND DREAMING OF EQUITABLE COMPUTATIONAL FUTURES.

Photo from The Red Earth Project

thetangerinepress.com/WALKING%20WO...

#ai #airesearch
February 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Nice to see this favourable review in the Dutch arts magazine, Gonzo Circus.
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Everyone's a "software engineer" and therefore a future soldier.
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Michael Salu
And here's part 2 of the deep-dive interview. Covering transdisciplinarity, tech authoritarianism, early cybernetic influences, independent publishing and more. #ai #digital #tech #literature #cybernetics www.full-stop.net/2025/01/23/i...
January 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It was really cool to bring our lit/music crossover project to
#ctmfestival in #Berlin
Readings from 'Voice of the First Metre' by Kelly Krumrie. #literature
February 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thanks for coming!
January 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We're taking 'Cybernetics, or Ghosts?' to CTM Festival. If you're in #Berlin join us. #ctmfestival #airesearch #creativewriting #kindle #anthology
January 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
And here's part 2 of the deep-dive interview. Covering transdisciplinarity, tech authoritarianism, early cybernetic influences, independent publishing and more. #ai #digital #tech #literature #cybernetics www.full-stop.net/2025/01/23/i...
January 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM