Design researcher & educator

surrealist games

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   Pixelated dreams (2024)

   Pixelated Dreams is a collaborative surrealist game designed to help people grasp the stable diffusion algorithm behind generative AI such as DALLE, MidJourney, and others. As an embodied algorithm simulation, the game turns an invisible computational process into a physical, social activity where players collectively perform the roles normally executed by a machine using their […] - Feb 14, 2026
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   Subverting generative AI by playing surrealist games

   Abstract: Generative AI is flooding the internet with hyperreal images. Can surrealism save us from hyperrealism? Surrealism uncovers the reality that nobody wants to face: the surreal, i.e., the real that is more real than the real. This lecture introduces Pixelated Dreams, a surrealist game that uncovers the reality of generative AI. Instead of turning […] - Nov 10, 2024

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