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art, teaching & cat person - TRANSFER Data Trust, NYU IDM, carlagannis.com
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Listening to a piece on how a comedian has been shadow banned on some networks for his take down of the current regime *BUT* he keeps going. Teaching Humor Makes us Better Storytellers this semester & I believe humor can be an important weapon in our arsenal. They cannot stand to be laughed at 🎭

Monday. Was it an ascending or descending day?

#sometimeagosaturday The Garden, digital print, 2005

One way to keep from endlessly scrolling, keeping my hands busy making these. Upcycling found and family collections of costume jewelry, silk flowers, false eyelashes, smartphone cords & car window glass. #Art #collage #painting #AI

Failing to levitate in my office

My two boys! Happy Love Day all❣️(we need all that we can get right now)

JOY

surf / serf

wwwunderkammer drawing 2020 with a spaceman at the top of the pile of 💩 & a T____ balloon man floating just below

learning…

#sometimeagosaturday Lucille Trackball made her debut as an AI Standup Comedian in 2017. Rebooting her again this semester as I teach, for my 3rd time, Humor Makes Us Better Storytellers (using AI, XR, performance + other mediums). Think we need to be embracing humor & absurdity as salve right now…

A beautiful day in NYC. Here’s Boschie contemplating the implications of DeepSeek 🐈‍⬛ 🧐🐋

Can an AI obsess? Well, humans certainly can. My obsession lately: glueing beads and other objects to surfaces, as translations of computer generated works. #uncannyfemaleonjects

little drawing, big feelings

My first day of teaching in the spring semester. Wearing ski bibs (b/c it’s 🥶 in NYC)& flowers (in hopes of an early spring). Spent the morning viewing HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016). Nothing is normal, and yet we carry on ❤️‍🔥💖

David Lynch (1946-2025) 🖤💔 Cannot compress into words the impact he had on me as a young artist. A quote by him that I have continued to treasure and return to for decades 🌌

Image 01: “Please open my cat food box” Image 02: I SAID open my cat food box!” 😼

#wip

My heart goes out to all inhabitants of LA: friends and families, babies & octogenarians, horses & house cats, pop stars & prisoners, to every one of you. A morning spent reading stories of unfathomable loss & despair, & too, of inestimable strength & courage. My hopes & prayers are with you.

Pen and ink drawing while traveling, 2025 “Which End is Up?”

Drawing & Volumetric scanning: NYC ✈️ to Alabama

Boschie going into 2025 like…

Happy New Year! 🎆 Hoping you all find spaces for joy, humor and abundant creativity in 2025’s uncanniness 💖 #happynewyear2025

Been sitting in a NYC bar for hours while my partner reads to me the Southern Gothic stories he’s writing, and I draw. Perfect Saturday with old R & B songs playing in the background

uncanny female object / self portrait / recycling the costume jewelry of generations / AI image generation transformed through physical process #uncannyfemaleobjects #ufos #artandai #collage #recycling

uncanny female object 10 x 12 inches

I didn’t move for hours so he could sleep uninterrupted on my lap

Recycling the costume jewelry of 3 generations: Grandma, Mom & me #uncannyfemaleobjects #AI #catladies #recycling

Home with my boy

In a festive mood with Mom and Dad before I ✈️ back to NYC today. Combining our ages, you’re looking at 209 years. Hopefully we’re becoming Three Wise People ❤️‍🔥

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A month now spent with my elderly folks and getting to know them and love them even more as who they are now. Aging ain’t sexy. It’s a bitch, but maintaining a life force and a vitality to meet the calamities awaiting each of us is our primary defense

my walk today: ode to nature 🎶 walk the line

Hello Monday. Hello virtual neighbors. I’ve been petting Christmas capped dinosaurs, hanging giant ornaments in small lawns & wandering above the lawn lit mist — a chronicle of the phantasmagorical feats of American lawn decoration 🫶

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Day 24 in North Carolina. In the morning this guy is not so scary…

Tonight & tmrw, Fri, Dec 6 Am I the Machine? Am I the Home? will be screening as part of Notions of Home, a show presenting 5 digi artists invited to create new works in dialogue w Laurie Simmons & Peter Wheelwright’s “The Kaleidoscope (..Bigger) House” installation presented by Dminti x ICA Miami

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My first label on Bluesky for a pen & ink drawing ;)

What I create digitally is informed by my drawing practice — a “meat puppet hand” making marks on a page. In my spare time (not much lately) been pulling this one out, adding lines/finding forms

Showing work alongside DMINTI x ICA Miami 'Kaleidoscope (...BIGGER) House' by Laurie Simmons & Peter Wheelwright 🏠 in a group collection of moving image works entitled “Notions of Home” Happy to be showing with a stellar line up of artists ✨ RSVP is here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dminti-x-i...

drawing in the wee hours

Me at 16 (1986). 1 of my early introductions to computer & digital media: sitting in “themed booths” at tech conferences while footage of me w was digitally manipulated — experiences that planted the seed for me to learn the tools & have power over my own representations

Peek-a-boo Visiting with “Junior” at my folk’s house