In the lobby
Two photographs of the LCD screen in the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory during the inaugural program. From the Creative B slides, summer 2026 — the works in the room, not only on the page.
View slide 15 →During the inaugural Hybrid Intelligences program (July 2026), these works from Marlon Barrios Solano’s repertoire of AI pieces were gathered as a showcase: My Pendular Umwelt from the open labs, then the pieces shown on the large screen in the lobby of the Herbert Wertheim Laboratory. They were not a side exhibition. They were chosen as relevant to the concepts and practices the program was rehearsing: coupling, embodiment, latent space, hybrid bodies, and language as a moving field.
The first still is from the Creative B slides: the works as they appeared on the lobby screen. The works then begin with My Pendular Umwelt. Click a work still to open the live piece — or, for Proteans, the video.
My Pendular Umwelt
Speculative p5.js work from the open labs of the inaugural program. GPT-4o writes from a proposed computational Umwelt and reads aloud; branching pendulums inscribe the words in motion — a Latentwelt of tokens and continuations rather than a still map.
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
After Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem: a cybernetic meadow, mammals and computers in mutual grace. An eye that both watches and is written upon — a figure for technical systems that look back, and for the hope (and the unease) of being held by loving machines.
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Barely There
A barely-present body in a generative field. Portrait, glitch, and sung line move through latent space — presence as something that can be looped, solarized, automated, almost not there.
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Wingspan
Webcam as coupling. The live body grows other eyes and a span of wing-like lines — an embodied, more-than-human overlay that treats the camera not as a mirror but as a site of hybrid becoming.
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Proteans
We come from the future and want to date you. Synthetic persons speak from a speculative time — profile, voice, and face generated so that “someone for you” might already be a model. Desire, persona, and futurity as AI social form.
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Semantic Tensegrities
Language held in tension: words, embeddings, topology. A speculative map of how syntactic and semantic patterns might form a backbone — not a still dictionary, but a structure that stays up because it is pulled.
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