artbl.a #8 - Jake Elwes
artbl.a #8 hosted an intimate evening with Jake Elwes, inviting us into a deep engagement with Elwes practice at the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and creative experimentation.
Elwes, an early adopter of AI as a medium since 2016, shared insights into his work, illuminating how algorithmic processes and machine learning can be harnessed as creative collaborators rather than tools of automation.
Held in a conversational salon setting, the event wove together presentation and dialogue, offering space to reflect on the ways AI reshapes artistic authorship, visual language, and the dynamics between human intuition and computational generation.
Dec 17, 2025
Jake Elwes is a London-based conceptual artist, hacker, and researcher whose practice explores the aesthetics and ethics of machine learning. Working across moving-image installation, sound, and performance, they investigate the successes and failures of digital systems, using AI to demystify, subvert, and reimagine technology.
Through projects such as The Zizi Project, Machine Learning Porn, and CUSP, Elwes searches for poetry and narrative within algorithmic processes, questioning who builds these systems and how they might be reclaimed to imagine alternative digital futures.
