Upcoming at the Photographer's Gallery, London.
Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine
Fri 07 Mar 2025 - Sun 15 Jun 2025
Hallucinations of empire and the AI archive
I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine is a new exhibition and commission by the collective Planetary Portals at The Photographers’ Gallery from 7 March 2025. Interrogating archival photography and artificial intelligence (AI), through a series of films, the exhibition weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI.
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Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine
Fri 07 Mar 2025 - Sun 15 Jun 2025
Hallucinations of empire and the AI archive
I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine is a new exhibition and commission by the collective Planetary Portals at The Photographers’ Gallery from 7 March 2025. Interrogating archival photography and artificial intelligence (AI), through a series of films, the exhibition weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI.
More information.
Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, filmmaker, literary editor and creative director with an interdisciplinary and curatorial practice informed by cross-cultural research and structured around storytelling, working creatively and critically intersecting new technologies with art and literature.
He is the author of Red Earth (2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth? (2024) and editor of the anthology Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (2024). His written work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, and he has exhibited internationally as an artist.
He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, and has produced creative and critical work on with machine learning ("AI") since 2019, also writing numerous essays and giving talks with organisations like 5x15.
He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective with Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden and Casper Laing Ebbensgaard.
As a creative strategist and creative director,
with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed and directed many types of multi-media creative projects for cultural organisations, institutions and brands winning awards along the way.
He is the author of Red Earth (2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth? (2024) and editor of the anthology Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (2024). His written work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, and he has exhibited internationally as an artist.
He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, and has produced creative and critical work on with machine learning ("AI") since 2019, also writing numerous essays and giving talks with organisations like 5x15.
He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective with Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden and Casper Laing Ebbensgaard.
As a creative strategist and creative director,
with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed and directed many types of multi-media creative projects for cultural organisations, institutions and brands winning awards along the way.
Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, filmmaker, editor and creative strategist with an interdisciplinary and curatorial practice informed by cross-cultural research and working creatively and critically intersecting new technologies with art and literature. He is the author of Red Earth (2023), What Lies Beyond the Red Earth? (2024) and editor of the anthology Cybernetics, or Ghosts? (2024). As a creative strategist and creative director, with strongly literary and scholarly underpinnings, he has developed ideas and designs for many cultural organisations and institutions, winning awards along the way. His written work has appeared in literary journals, magazines, art and academic publications, and as an artist, he has exhibited internationally. He has conducted extensive research into technology's impact on culture, including numerous essays and talks with organisations like 5x15. He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and consultancy focusing on bridging creative, critical thinking and technology and is part of Planetary Portals, a research collective with Kathryn Yusoff, Kerry Holden and Casper Laing Ebbensgaard.
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Published in October 2023 by Calamari Archive (Press). Read an extract from the afterword in the Paris Review.
Published in October 2023 by Calamari Archive (Press). Read an extract from the afterword in the Paris Review.
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Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansive works of fiction.
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Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansive works of fiction.
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Published in August 2024 by Tangerine Press.
53 Signed limited edition Chapbooks of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH?, on AI, subjectivity and colonialism.
Published in August 2024 by Tangerine Press.
53 Signed limited edition Chapbooks of my essay WHAT LIES BEYOND THE RED EARTH?, on AI, subjectivity and colonialism.
House of Thought
House of Thought is an experimental creative research practice and consultancy aimed at bridging expansive critical ideas and technology.
The Red Earth Project
Started in 2019, The Red Earth Project is an ongoing artistic, interdisciplinary study centred on prose reflections and machine translation, drawing attention to the precarious status of non-western cultural heritage, knowledge systems and practices in the increasingly dominant Western systems of data, virtual architectures and AI technologies.
D.A.O.C. Film
Responding to imperial archives with game engine software. A Film by Michael Salu made with Unity 3D.
SALUFILMS
Salufilms is driven by innovative storytelling. We see a space in the industry for critical, exploratory work that can live with and beyond the cinema space. We aim to both celebrate and challenge the grammar of film, prioritising poetic exploration and innovation.
Vestibule
Vestibule is a strategic creative agency where poetry meets insight. Full site imminent!
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