Eryk Salvaggio is a researcher and media artist interested in artificial intelligence's social and cultural impacts. His work explores agency and the creative misuse of AI, and critiques myths of tech design that ignore the gaps between datasets and the world they claim to represent. A blend of hacker, policy researcher, artist and theorist, he has curated exhibitions, published art-research projects in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals internationally including SXSW, Unsound, and the Gray Area Festival, and has lead workshops on AI, creativity and art in nine countries across four continents.

Human Movie

Human Movie is a media essay that uses glitched, deliberately "noisy" generated video and audio to explore the definition of being human through contrasts with and comparisons to artificial intelligence systems. Centering static as both an aspect of generative AI infrastructures and as a metaphor for confusion and uncertainty, the film provides a space where borders and definitions are deliberately fuzzy. Nonetheless, the film proposes that noise can be truly generative if humans cultivate creativity and embrace complexity rather than surrender to machines.

(The film makes extensive use of digital noise. Because the screener available here is compressed, the noise appears differently from the hi res version.)

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