The Epistemologies of Slop | Art/Tech Exhibition Opening

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While often used to describe excessive, AI-generated, engagement-optimized media, slop is increasingly becoming a dominant condition of contemporary culture. ​Epistemologies of Slop is an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess. Bringing together artists, technologists, designers, researchers, and system-builders, the exhibition investigates how truth, culture, and meaning are made in the age of AI-generated media. ​The exhibition approaches slop not only as an aesthetic, but as a social, technical, economic, and psychological condition. Some works critique slop. Others embrace it, aestheticize it, weaponize it, surrender to it, or reveal the strange new forms of culture emerging from within it. ​Through installations, performances, sculptures, interfaces, and experiments, Epistemologies of Slop asks: - ​What is slop? - How do we recognize truth signal or beauty in probabilistic environments? - What does slopulence m