Three talks by Theresa Tomi Faison, Max C Lee & Erin Davis, and Carmelo Pampillonio followed by discussions. Theresa Tomi Faison will be discussing “\__ & O” a new 7 channel installation exploring implications of the early internet “long tail” theory, carrying the ideas forward to the AI era. If the long tail posited that subculture post-internet becomes ever more nichified, what does it mean when those subcultural outputs make up the data sets used to train LLMs? The work will open Thursday 9/24 at 260 Madison ave. After making enough gencore, Max C Lee realized prompt-centered generative music is a horrible slot-machine experience to produce, and has started exploring live performance with live generations. He will talk about gencore and its origins, their gencore production process, and recent live experiments with a locally-run MusicGen LoRA, MRT2, and vocal prompt tool. Carmelo will present two projects. The first is a full-duplex radio communications platform developed for Remote Viewing Platform that sends and receives visual media and interfaces with existing radio hardware. The second is a working prototype for diagnosing narrative manipulation across the public-private circuits linking technology companies, state actors, contractors, media platforms, and other institutional interests. Built from an evolving taxonomy, the tool is designed to make these operations legible and give the public more precise language to trace incentives, beneficiaries, and material interests.