GOLDEN BABY
Video, 2025
About the artwork
Golden Baby drifts through scenes of the American West reimagined as icons of devotion: the corner gas station at dusk, a cluttered bedroom sanctuary, headlights stretching endlessly down the freeway. The familiar places take on the shimmer of the sacred. Ordinary and divine.
An ode to the hopefulness of new love, where reality melts into the sublime. A bubblegum-pop ditty where emotion and illusion blur into surreal tenderness.
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.