/-\7TERꞫD_{̶D̶4̶T̶4̶}̶PRØ/\/\PTz is where I extend my glitch art practice into the semantic core of AI image-making: the prompt itself. I don’t intervene in the dataset or in the model, but in the text that instructs the machine—its main interface with human intention. I corrupt this textual DNA using L33T SP34k, forcing the AI into unfamiliar linguistic territory. Without its usual cues, the system must improvise, producing results that are unpredictable, unrepeatable, and infused with the aesthetic dissonance of computational misinterpretation.
The quotes I use are not random. I select them from writings on AI, art, and glitch art—texts that I believe are important to share, to inform, to provoke, and to build awareness around AI’s cultural and creative roles. These quotes become a vehicle for knowledge-sharing, but also for inviting dialogue, becoming inspiration, food for thought and conversations. I share them on Instagram deliberately, treating the platform as a site-specific space for this project. In a context where AI images often circulate as eye-catching spectacles designed for likes, I push against the current by inserting critical discourse into that stream.
Every image in this series is both artwork and Trojan horse—slipping critical ideas into a space dominated by superficial consumption. The glitch in the prompt mirrors the glitch in the platform’s logic: instead of a flawless, algorithm-friendly image, the viewer encounters something disrupted, distorted, and demanding of interpretation. Uncanny.
For me, there is a deep conceptual connection between AI and glitch: both are systems interpreting inputs based on rules, and both become most interesting when those rules are bent or broken. Influenced by Dr. Ahmed Elgammal’s thinking on AI and D. E. Berlyne’s theory of aesthetic “arousal”—novelty, complexity, ambiguity—I work to limit my control and let the machine act as a collaborator in error. The images that emerge are not mine alone, nor the machine’s—they are the result of our shared glitches, and of doing “the wrong things the right way” to discover what neither of us could have foreseen.
