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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). LaMDA was designed to create chat bots that interact with humans. Lemoine’s interview led him to conclude the AI was sentient. When he made the claim publicly, he was fired.This… ⊕
Winners and Losers is created using original video footage recorded by Paul Wong. This work shines a light on a piece of recent Vancouver history that many would prefer to forget: the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff riots. The video puts together recordings of gatherings in the downtown core in and around the hockey arena; these… ⊕
Black people have always practiced worldbuilding, a tool in our fixation on imagining and venturing towards collective liberation. ZION is a new take on the Rastafarian concept of Zion, the great escape from Babylon and its oppressive structures. I envision ZION as inextricably tied to the Buddhist concept of nirvana, the… ⊕
This film is a study of Western-style pre-wedding photography near Tokyo Station. Every night, several couples take turns striking similar poses near the front of Tokyo Station on Gyoko-dori Street. Pre-wedding photo shoots have been popular on social media for about the last five years. The photo packages often include the… ⊕