Chrissy Brimmage
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Chrissy Brimmage is a multidisciplinary artist investigating consciousness and reality as shaped by intersubjectivity, contemporary technoculture, and sociopolitical systems.
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Necker Cube (2025)
3D Printed PLA
The deeper integration of AI into the web has ushered in a new juncture of internet history—online data is no longer homogeneously human, & generated content and users are on track to surpass human contributions. With the scales tipping in favor of artificial content, training data scrapes are increasingly unable to avoid other machine’s outputs, causing cannibalization that compounds errors, biases, and distortions, and the production of “AI hallucinations” that become the ground truth for future models.
To visualize these hallucinations, I initiated a game of “telephone” between two machines (See more here). Starting with a portrait of me captured by photographer Ize Commers, the machines took turns describing and reproducing the image iteratively, based of the previous’s outputs. Though not parallel to training, when fed only each other’s outputs, the machines quickly collapsed into producing nonsensical results, such as a three-armed portrait, arming me with a gun, and turning me into what one machine described as the “perfect human female specimen,” rendered by the other as a white woman on a plane in Stephen King’s “The Langoliers.” A selection of these outputs are displayed within Necker Cube’s lenticular panels, shifting between the original portrait and the AI interpretations as the viewer’s position changes.
Just as Necker’s illusion lacks an objective orientation, the artwork highlights the destabilization of identity, reality, and truth in an era shaped by regressive AI hallucinations, questioning what, and who, may be erased when AI consumes itself.
Necker Cube was featured in The Start of Something, curated by Faron Manuel at One Contemporary Gallery.