Khazar Archeological Confabulations

PC, AI algorithm, speculative archeology object database, cyanotype on paper, 2023

Khazar Archeological Confabulations employs machine learning to craft speculative archeological images tied to the artist’s heritage. Using a database of artifacts from a sought-after archeological excavation of the lost Khazar capital, the system generates a vocabulary of mean images of object drawings in real-time. Select drawings are turned into Cyanotypes exposed to natural light, reflecting Khazar Tenegrist myths of the titular sky god and the eternal blue sky.

Shown in:

Electric Psalms, Gallery Wrightwood Logan Square, curated by Alan Perry and Casey VanderStel

DONG-DONG Creator’s Universe, ISEA 2025, Link: https://isea2025.isea-international.org/program/exhibition/#EXHIBITION_SAC

GUI/GOOEY, Plexus Projects, curated by Laura Splan. Link: https://www.plexusprojects.org/gui-gooey-2024

Spiritual Machines, Flux Factory, curated by Amelia Marzec and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow. Link: https://spiritualmachines.neocities.org/intro

Funnel & Switch, Ars Electronica 2023, curated by Angelia Mahaney. Link: https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/khazar-archeological-confabulations/

Weird Dreams, Weird Analysis, a project organized by Garrett Laroy Johnson. Link: https://ccam.world/projects/weird-dreams/