Video, no sound, 2025
Duration: 55 seconds
Public video arts showcase: 靜噪 / Silent Interference
Special thanks to Jaye Cho, Ping Ho, and turtle chamber projects for documenting the public screening
A Hundred Lines of Nonsense
A Hundred Lines of Nonsense is the result of a collaborative experiment with teens in NYC, this work offers a glitchy reflection on data, algorithms, and the endless production of AI slop.
Working with the young participants’ anonymous chat histories, the artist used a Markov chain to generate new lines of text based on the probabilities in the original text. Each sentence begins with the seed word “ai,” forming a cryptic, chaotic, yet occasionally insightful snapshot of the teens’ thoughts on technology and society.
A prediction model could generate content forever, but the further it goes, the more meaning dissolves, much like scrolling endlessly through conversations after conversations, comments after comments, where sense fades in and out of randomness.
