Steph Maj Swanson
Suicide III, 08:11 min, Color, Sweden, 2023
President Biden announces a new task force of bird-like federal augurs, directing them to stage a shamanistic intervention at the world’s largest hacker event. Can they protect the sovereignty of the future from time-meddling AI corporations?
Steph Maj Swanson, a.k.a. Supercomposite, is a multimedia artist and writer best known for her story about the AI-generated woman Loab, which The Atlantic dubbed “a form of expression that has never existed before.” Galleries West described Swanson’s body of AI-generated visual work as “the merging of repulsive with beautiful,” and The Washington Post deemed her satirical writing “disturbing”.