steph maj swanson
@supercomposite.bsky.social
Writer, filmmaker, artist. Creator of Loab.
Words in Vice, [o]gled
📍Sweden & around the world 🏳️🌈
supercompo.site
Words in Vice, [o]gled
📍Sweden & around the world 🏳️🌈
supercompo.site
I’m on the AI and Animation panel at Uppsala Short Film Festival tomorrow - see you there!
October 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I’m on the AI and Animation panel at Uppsala Short Film Festival tomorrow - see you there!
Egg punk is the future
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Egg punk is the future
A hot and hungry night walk through Uppsala.
Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!
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Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!
www.mixcloud.com/extraextrama...
Night walker #16 – Steph Maj Swanson – Uppsala
In this episode, Steph Maj Swanson slips unnoticed through the streets of Uppsala during its Valborg festival, drawn like a moth to its midnight bonfires and unbridled pleasures. Steph is an American ...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A hot and hungry night walk through Uppsala.
Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!
www.mixcloud.com/extraextrama...
Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod!
www.mixcloud.com/extraextrama...
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October 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
'Models for Making Distance' is a print zine gathering manifestos, writing and instructions for art that confounds algorithmic systems for the pleasure of human observers or actors.
Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong
Edition of 200. 52 Pages.
Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong
Edition of 200. 52 Pages.
September 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
'Models for Making Distance' is a print zine gathering manifestos, writing and instructions for art that confounds algorithmic systems for the pleasure of human observers or actors.
Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong
Edition of 200. 52 Pages.
Editors:
Eryk Salvaggio
Caroline Sinders
Laura Forlano
Steph Maj Swanson
Sherry Wong
Edition of 200. 52 Pages.
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Your regular reminder that I am OPEN FOR WORK!!
I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!
Hire me!! 💕
I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!
Hire me!! 💕
July 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Your regular reminder that I am OPEN FOR WORK!!
I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!
Hire me!! 💕
I will VJ your live events!
I will edit your videos!
I will glitch things for you!
I will operate a camera!
I will learn your weird software workflow!
Hire me!! 💕
OUT NOW – SCL002
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”
The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.
To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.
🔗 below:
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”
The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.
To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.
🔗 below:
August 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
OUT NOW – SCL002
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”
The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.
To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.
🔗 below:
STEMcell feat. Propus – “Ore / Body Armour”
The 2nd release from artist collective and label @stemcellmusic.bsky.social.
To create the artwork, I pummeled an AI model with optical sound-on-film waveforms—until it could no longer produce images uncontaminated by audio.
🔗 below:
Please help my dear friend and collaborator Vera afford her surgery
I have just launched a gofundme for my facial feminization surgery in december. I would greatly appreciate any help, no matter if it takes the form of sharing, or donating.
www.gofundme.com/f/veras-gend...
www.gofundme.com/f/veras-gend...
Donate to Vera's gender affirming surgery fundraiser, organized by Vera Nygren
Hello, my name is Vera, and I am fundraising for my facial feminization surgery… Vera Nygren needs your support for Vera's gender affirming surgery fundraiser
www.gofundme.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Please help my dear friend and collaborator Vera afford her surgery
Excellent write-up of our work at ARRG!’s DEFCON exhibition in Eryk’s latest newsletter —
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excellent write-up of our work at ARRG!’s DEFCON exhibition in Eryk’s latest newsletter —
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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and main author @eryk.bsky.social in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
June 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Honored to share co-authorship with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and main author @eryk.bsky.social in the newest issue of Critical AI!! “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems” -- featuring Loab and much more -- read it! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Was awarded an Sfilm grant today for a short film I’m directing. It’s about two people with an erotic fixation on the invisible algorithms inside cameras.
Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.
That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴
Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.
That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Was awarded an Sfilm grant today for a short film I’m directing. It’s about two people with an erotic fixation on the invisible algorithms inside cameras.
Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.
That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴
Artist Liza Shkirando is one of my collaborators on this wild project.
That’s all I’m going to say at this time, go back to sleep. 😴
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hi, cis folks!
the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!
if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵
the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!
if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
hi, cis folks!
the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!
if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵
the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people!
if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵
ok!
Bring back Loab!
June 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
ok!
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When can I start dating Loab?
i love that there are fake accounts on the dating apps using blatantly obvious generative ai images
November 6, 2023 at 7:53 AM
When can I start dating Loab?
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basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
June 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
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So-called «AI» as developed and marketed by Big Tech isn't a mere tool. It's a political and ideological project—a system of extraction, exploitation and surveillance that concentrates power in the hands of the few. Willingly accepting this as inevitable progress means submitting to brute force
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June 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
So-called «AI» as developed and marketed by Big Tech isn't a mere tool. It's a political and ideological project—a system of extraction, exploitation and surveillance that concentrates power in the hands of the few. Willingly accepting this as inevitable progress means submitting to brute force
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Sometimes the necessary text is written at the necessary time.
“Predictive Capital” by @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is one such book.
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
“Predictive Capital” by @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is one such book.
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes o...
www.creativeapplications.net
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes the necessary text is written at the necessary time.
“Predictive Capital” by @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is one such book.
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
“Predictive Capital” by @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is one such book.
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...
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Commentary by Khaled Soulaiman: A member of the city’s Muslim and Arab community couldn’t help but notice: In a city that has flown many flags without new rules, the policy changed only when the Palestinian flag was flown.
Providence’s new flag policy isn’t just about flags. It’s about who gets to be seen, and who is silenced. - The Boston Globe
A member of the city’s Muslim and Arab community couldn’t help but notice: In a city that has flown many flags without new rules, the policy changed only when the Palestinian flag was flown.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Commentary by Khaled Soulaiman: A member of the city’s Muslim and Arab community couldn’t help but notice: In a city that has flown many flags without new rules, the policy changed only when the Palestinian flag was flown.
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1 of the biggest fears of A.I. content that seems to undergird a lot of discussion is that it'll reveal that most the slop people love is already soulless content generation and a computer doing it kind of proves the point
February 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
1 of the biggest fears of A.I. content that seems to undergird a lot of discussion is that it'll reveal that most the slop people love is already soulless content generation and a computer doing it kind of proves the point
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With Musk and Trump in a post-DOGE meltdown, it's tempting to think this marks some end for DOGE's AI takeover of the federal government. But as I wrote this week before the social media wars, Musk (and "AI") are best understood as accountability shields. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...
Musk, AI, and the Weaponization of 'Administrative Error' | TechPolicy.Press
The only change from Musk's departure from DOGE may be the degree to which the public pays attention, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
June 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
With Musk and Trump in a post-DOGE meltdown, it's tempting to think this marks some end for DOGE's AI takeover of the federal government. But as I wrote this week before the social media wars, Musk (and "AI") are best understood as accountability shields. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...
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I wrote this in 2023 as a way of linking critical to media / cultural studies, specific to generative AI — in a lot of conferences this summer I’ve been going back to it to make points, so maybe it’s worth sharing again! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/social-...
The Hypothetical Image — Cybernetic Forests.
The history of AI images as data analytics, and AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics.
www.cyberneticforests.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I wrote this in 2023 as a way of linking critical to media / cultural studies, specific to generative AI — in a lot of conferences this summer I’ve been going back to it to make points, so maybe it’s worth sharing again! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/social-...
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Happy to share the first of my artworks for
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
STEMcell feat. Sceptrum - Macha / Boxhole, by Sceptrum
2 track album
sceptrum.bandcamp.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Happy to share the first of my artworks for
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
Happy to share the first of my artworks for
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
STEMcell feat. Sceptrum - Macha / Boxhole, by Sceptrum
2 track album
sceptrum.bandcamp.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Happy to share the first of my artworks for
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--
@STEMcellmusic
— a new label for experimental electronic music.
STEMcell’s debut release is ’Macha / Boxhole’ from the Berlin-based artist Sceptrum. sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/stemce...
More about the art below--