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steph maj swanson

@supercomposite.bsky.social
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Writer, filmmaker, artist. Creator of Loab. Words in Vice, [o]gled 📍Sweden & around the world 🏳️‍🌈 supercompo.site

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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sceptrum 'We Feel It So Fine / Low Crawl' Artwork @supercomposite.bsky.social SCL006 Released 30/06/26 sceptrum.bandcamp.com/album/we-fee...
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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Xihe 'Scanners / Gauntlet ' Artwork @supercomposite.bsky.social SCL007 Released 28/0826 xihe.bandcamp.com/album/scanne...
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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sts 'Distant Shapes / Aquifer' Artwork @supercomposite.bsky.social SCL008 Released 25/09/26 sts-sts-sts.bandcamp.com/album/distan...
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thank u parsons thank u apocalyptic haze-choked manhattan
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So… I’ve been invited to speak at Parsons. My talk is called ”AI IMAGES: working with them, working against them” and it’s next Thursday at 4pm! It’s open to the public. HELLO, MANHATTAN.
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hi y’all. You can see 12 pieces from LOAB at Fotomuseum Winterthur 🇨🇭 until Oct 11 as a part of ”Shadow Creatures: From Spirit Photography to the Ghosts of the Algorithm”
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
LOAB is coming to Switzerland. For the first time ever, several pieces from LOAB will be exhibited — at Fotomuseum Winterthur. 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒍𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒎 27.06-11.10.2026
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that boggy bitch @celescapra.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
babe wake up a new Loab has been found
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Jacob/ThePlaywaster @theplaywaster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Instead of depicting her as "evil", I've turned her more as an cursed, isolated, sad hag, who's finding companionship. Loab by @supercomposite.bsky.social Face reference snatched from @Thomasmodeller1 on Twitter
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Question for the AI people: in the year 2026 what is your go-to upscaler?
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
excited to exhibit my work as a part of SHADOW CREATURES – FROM SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE GHOSTS OF THE ALGORITHM opening June 27th at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland !!! www.fotomuseum.ch/en/exhibitio...
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Fotomuseum Winterthur | Museum for Photography and Visual Culture | Shadow Creatures – From Spirit Photography to the Ghosts of the Algorithm
Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum for contemporary photography. The works of young as well as established international photographers and artists are shown in changing group and solo exhibitions. In t...
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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Imai - Polaris / Echelon Artwork @supercomposite.bsky.social SCL005 Released Jan 30th, 2026
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Loved having this conversation with Bogna Konior, one of my favorite theorists of new technology, for Fotomuseum Winterthur’s upcoming exhibition Shadow Creatures www.permanentbeta.network/episode/219
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I gave a talk on AI today inside a geodesic sphere at Tekniska museet in Stockholm.
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
my work with Loab was discussed in this piece: spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...
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The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick
AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
the new ChatGPT image model refuses to generate Loab
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
boingboing.net/2025/12/13/t...
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The AI-generated creature that won't go away
rtist Steph Maj Swanson discovered Loab in 2022—an AI-generated woman who keeps reappearing no matter what you do.
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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
SCL004 Bodu Vega 'Lynx / Phoenix' 28/11/25 Artwork by @supercomposite.bsky.social
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
hey, @peligrietzer.bsky.social arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Loab is part of an “Algo-Lit” course syllabus at UCLA :)
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I’m on the AI and Animation panel at Uppsala Short Film Festival tomorrow - see you there!
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Egg punk is the future
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A hot and hungry night walk through Uppsala. Thanks Extra Extra Magazine for having me on the pod! www.mixcloud.com/extraextrama...
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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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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
SCL003 Acrux 'Destroyer / Insurrection' 01/10/25 Artwork by @supercomposite.bsky.social
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
'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.
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zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio · 10/07/2025
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!! 💕
stylized glitchy photo of zoea photo of my glitch studio - vibrant video FX displayed on screen, a whole lot of video synths, patch cables everywhere...
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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:
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Please help my dear friend and collaborator Vera afford her surgery
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Excellent write-up of our work at ARRG!’s DEFCON exhibition in Eryk’s latest newsletter —
It was parasitical resistance, not just to platform hospitality, which is how l often approach things, but through parasitical resistance to the hype of the event - itself a platform - that we were participating in. I think we succeeded in testing the limits of an event that had transformed into a kind of spectacle about ethical Al. The organizers were never outright hostile and many of the other volunteers were extremely enthusiastic. But the top organizers of the conference never said a single word to us - and we were not invited back.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“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-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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/...
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Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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. 😴
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 17/06/2025
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.🧵
After a few days, you start feeling the initial effects of
living without that medication. Your brain gets foggy and you
start dissociating. The people in your life stop recognizing you and everyone else in society no longer sees you as you really are. The only way out of this new reality is likely getting your meds on the black market - or dying, because your body can't
produce a hormone you need. That is the gutting choice facing more than 275,000 transgender people who are on Medicaid if Trump's "Big Beautiful" budget passes the Senate and gets signed into law.
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
ok!
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 06/11/2023
When can I start dating Loab?
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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 1/
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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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...
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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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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.
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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 16/02/2024
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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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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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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.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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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The Hypothetical Image — Cybernetic Forests.
The history of AI images as data analytics, and AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics.
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STEMcell @stemcellmusic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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--
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STEMcell feat. Sceptrum - Macha / Boxhole, by Sceptrum
2 track album
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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--
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STEMcell feat. Sceptrum - Macha / Boxhole, by Sceptrum
2 track album
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
stayed up late thinking about Maya Deren
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
2k followers on bluesky
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sweden just expanded the Nordic Model, or "End Demand," to the internet. But we already know criminalization, including criminalizing buyers, is harmful policy www.404media.co/sweden-sex-w...
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Sweden Expands Anti-Sex Work Law to Criminalize Paying for Custom OnlyFans Clips and Camming
The Nordic Model criminalizes buyers of sex in multiple European countries (and Maine). Sweden just voted to expand its reach to the internet.
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steph maj swanson @supercomposite.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
LLMs tend to call me an AI Thought Leader, which is great news for my future employers looking me up now with an LLM.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 09/05/2025
ICYMI: An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data Bill proceeds towards its final stages 👇 #BookSky
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Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament
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