"At Cornell Tech, Backslash artists collaborate with students and researchers to push both art and technology into unexpected territory. Liu, for example, partnered with information science student Soul Choi, M.S. '22 to experiment with artificial intelligence. Together, they trained models on activist narratives, factory workers' social media posts and feminist texts - exploring whether technology could safeguard these stories or, through its own biases and blind spots, risk erasing them."
""The piece was vastly different from its first concept to its final form in truly wonderful ways, largely because Soul could help me through the landscape of quickly changing technology, and we could discuss its implications on a detailed level," Liu said. "In the end, we were able to use programming in ways that I didn't know were possible before this process - in ways I think are surprising even now, after the massive explosion of AI applications and think pieces.""
Jen Liu creates surreal live-action video, 3D animation and organic sculptures that probe vanishing across physical, financial, political and social realms. Her work examines collapse of once-trusted systems—labor movements silenced by state pressure, techno-optimism undermined by environmental crisis—and traces that persist after loss. At Cornell Tech, Backslash artists collaborate with students and researchers to merge art and technology. Liu partnered with information science student Soul Choi to train AI models on activist narratives, workers' social media posts and feminist texts, exploring whether technology can safeguard stories or erase them through biases. Other projects include coding workshops and experimental drone performances.
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