Conceptual artist ClownVamp presents The Junk Machine, an interactive installation that uses a localized AI model to generate and print algorithmic images, offering a critique of AI-driven proliferation and cultural bias.
At the heart of the installation is a bright pink robot housing an embedded NVIDIA Jetson computer running a local AI model. Visitors are invited to press a large red button, instantly producing surreal, gluttony-inspired images printed on 6x6 inch paper without the need for Wi-Fi or cloud connectivity. Playful and unsettling in equal measure, the work confronts how AI tools, once designed for experimentation, are being transformed into engines of mass production.
“The Junk Machine takes the possibilities of AI and turns them inward,” said ClownVamp. “It can create beauty, humor, and engaging interactions, but it can also be industrialized, turned into a mechanism for proliferation — of past biases, of capitalist imagery, and visual noise.”
