DREAM MODELS

​What does it mean to own an image, when the image no longer points back to anything real?

This spring, TITLES and Gray Area gave five artists an unusual brief: train a custom AI model on your own creative practice, and see what it dreams up.

​On May 9, Arvida Byström, Huntrezz Janos, Lou Fauroux, Yvonne Fang, and Sharon Zheng unveil their models for the first time, and explore what happens when a body of work begins generating from within itself.

​Curated by Alice Scope.

✧ Free with RSVP
✧ Drinks will be served
✧ All Ages
✧ Seated Program

​Learn more about the event and Gray Area here.

​About the Artists

​Arvida Byström
Arvida Byström is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in ideas that deal with the internet and its social, aesthetic and commercial implications. She is known for employing a hyper- feminine aesthetic to explore themes concerning the complexities of femininity, identity, body image, social dynamics, emerging technologies and economic principles through primarily photography, performance and sculpture work.

​Huntrezz Janos
Huntrezz Janos is as much herself as she is the information being relayed to you now through this sequence of symbols. Born to Hungarian architect Szabó Gyöngyi and metal icon Scoonie Gee in Los Angeles, CA, Huntrezz is a light-speed organism determined to reach a distant Antarctic destiny by way of a circuitous path of digital synthesis involving animated video/game art, 3D printed armor, Augmented Reality, sustainable architecture, and rhyme performance along with a laundry list of other, increasingly esoteric practices. Janos emerges from her various disguises to present afro-futurist media designed to delight, confound, and confront those of us entangled in this epoch.

​Lou Fauroux
Lou Fauroux is a visual artist, filmmaker, and DJ whose films, sculptures, and installations explore the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence and virtual technologies. They began creating moving images within a community of porn producers and actresses in Los Angeles and describe themself as “a true product of bedroom culture,” shaped by MTV, YouTube, pirated American series, and Tumblr and Reddit forums. Reworking these influences through a queer lens, Fauroux builds new mythologies that dissect the power structures and excesses of the entertainment and tech industries.

​Yvonne Fang
Yvonne Fang is an artist, designer, and developer. She is interested in creativity and AI, and topics around climate change, technology, and human society. Her recent work focuses on creativity support tools and experimental human-AI co-creative systems, games, and interactive installations. She holds a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from Bowdoin College where she studied international relations, computer science, and visual art.

​Sharon Zheng
Sharon Zheng is a multidisciplinary artist and engineer from Toronto, currently based in San Francisco. Her work coexists across digital and print mediums, drawing inspiration from her personal life and upbringing. Through art and shared creation, she invites others into her world, offering moments of reflection, connection, and play.

​Curator

​Alice Scope
Alice Scope is a new media art curator and researcher focused on human–AI relationships, artificial intimacy, and collective intelligence. Her work centers on building speculative worlds through XR, gaming, blockchain, and performance, often through cross-disciplinary collaborations. She recently partnered with Serpentine Arts Technologies on Partial Common Ownership (PCO), an alternative model for art ownership. Her exhibitions, PET, Postgender, System Fatal, and Erotic Codex, have been presented at institutions including the Berggruen Institute, Gray Area, SXSW, LACMA, Honor Fraser, and the California Science Center.

​Partner

​TITLES
TITLES is a studio for artist-trained AI models. It enables artists turn their work into custom models that others can use, while maintaining attribution and ownership.

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​Gray Area
Gray Area is a San Francisco-based nonprofit cultural incubator. Our mission is to cultivate, sustain, and apply antidisciplinary collaboration — integrating art, technology, science, and the humanities — towards a more equitable and regenerative future.