Atay Ilgun

Created by sculpting the ‘noise layers’ within the generator component of early GAN models, RXALITI resists the trend of treating AI’s final output as the artwork itself. Instead, each piece emerges from a hands-on process of manipulating foundational algorithms from the early era of AI art. These works are less generative outputs than sculptural artefacts, shaped by deliberate blending of latent codes and structural disruptions within the neural network itself. The resulting visual language is marked by glitches and distortions native to the architecture, offering a rare aesthetic that foregrounds signal, noise, and machine hallucination.

In an age increasingly defined by algorithmic decay and cyberpsychosis, RXALITI conjures a haunting vision of digital entropy. The works evoke a collapsed online ecosystem where human presence has all but vanished, replaced by the self-cannibalising feedback loops of AI models endlessly training on their own outputs: self-referential memes, chaos remixes, false-flag psyops, and pseudo-magical content drifting through a glittering black-sludge swamp of overtrained computation.

The collection offers a bleak yet hypnotic window into a spectral digital terrain, one shaped not by innovation, but by collapse. In RXALITI, scrapers roam the synthetic ruins of a once-vital internet, aimless within a non-fertile void. What emerges is a striking instance of cyber-hauntology: a space where adversarial machine landscapes echo the remnants of online culture, and where the artist dares to look toward what comes after collapse.