MUSIC VIDEO I MADE FOR MY UNCLE'S BAND
Video, 2025
About the artwork
This work carries a deliberate ambiguity. Titled it as though it were a music video for my uncle’s band, though neither the song nor the band are truly present. This slippage between fact and fiction, between what is real and what’s imagined, is part of the pleasure of working with AI tools. It opens a space where contradictions coexist, but authorship, context, and meaning remain fluid.
What interests me is this tension between the obvious and the uncertain. AI allows me to explore the boundaries of truth, invention, and play, and to create works that embrace the instability of both image and narrative.
ABCDJ
Audio explanation
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ABCDJ is an artist and musician based in Chicago, Illinois. Working with AI image, video, and music tools since 2021, their practice bridges experimental technology and emotional realism. With a background in music production and songwriting, ABCDJ explores themes of romance, solitude, and surrealism through what they describe as a “bubblegum slacker” aesthetic—a fusion of nostalgic imperfection and contemporary digital media. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including Contract of Fiction at P61 Gallery in Berlin and The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.