THE PIT

Description:

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Inside a stone structure, a video loop forms a pit. Each frame was cropped and re-fed into a local AI image generator with a random prompt, creating zooms into shifting spaces, a self-consuming collapse of images, and black-box hallucinations.

 

The video explores the latent mechanics of diffusion models, where prediction and hallucination become indistinguishable. Each frame builds upon the last, drawing out unexpected elements from the model’s latent space and unearthing fragments of its hidden training data. By stepping into the pit, visitors physically enter a recursive system reflecting algorithmic models that shape discourse, distort thought, and reshape social narratives.

 

Through this descent, the work questions what it means to relinquish agency to intelligent systems that mediate perception, memory, and reality itself. The result is a hypnotic, unsettling landscape of shifting imagery that embodies a recursive implosion of AI-generated media.

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Exhibited as part of the Re:Humanism Art Prize at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, from June 19 to July 30, 2025