"Utopian Hallucinations" combines two somewhat disparate threads in my recent AI work: my pseudo-photographic "Utopia" series and my deep explorations into AI-based abstract paintings.

The Utopia project is one where I imagine a post-civilization Earth inhabited by a future colony of survivors. We watch them as they explore a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They build things, hunt, harvest food, experiment with new-old technology, and work to resurrect cultural practices th ...