Current Project: Hallucinating California

Hallucinating California brings together ten artists to explore the Golden State as a center of technology, culture, and myth. Each artist is a resident of California and has created their own unique AI model for the production of their work. This show is a collection of digital and physical artworks that explore AI through collage, sound, film, and image.

This show emphasizes that the manual curation of data and the creation of models is a creative act. Creating unique AI models is an important skill for understanding a world that is increasingly dominated by technocapitalism and its thirsty march of extraction, homogenization, and war.

Hallucinating California hopes to tell one story of how people can come together by using AI, a tool that has potential to alienate and isolate people. While the artworks are not yet completed, the process for the work explores the new ways of collaborating and making that will only be more relevant as the 21st century progresses and AI becomes ever more pervasive.

Hallucinating California is curated by Edek Sher and is part of the 7th edition of the Wrong Biennale. Although no space is booked, this show will devirtualize in an IRL space sometime between November 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026. If you have a space in California that is interested in hosting this show, please reach out.

The work for the show will be posted to this site on November 1, 2025, the date that the Wrong Biennale opens.

Participating artists:

Delta_Ark, Lucas Baisch, Vivian Charlesworth, Sam Galison, Maggie Hazen, John Mawhorter, Steffanie Padilla, Rosa Park, Edek Sher, Tim Wang