Queer Theory Saved My Life
Queer Theory Saved My Life explores queerness in AI image models alongside NASA public domain footage. Typically text-to-image AI image generation is done with visually descriptive keywords, but by inputting excerpts from queer theorists unexpected representations are created. Various cycles of feedback into the image generators, alongside other processing are used in a science fiction narrative of escape to Mars.
Screenings:
17/12/25 — Tranz Tropez, Staffordshire Street, London
15/12/23 — Videoclub × MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS, The Groundless Factory, Beijing
14/11/23 — Dreamyplace, Crawley UK
21/6/23 — Both Sides Now 8: Queer Realities/Virtualities; esea contemporary, Manchester
23/5/23 — Both Sides Now 8: Queer Realities/Virtualities; Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
22/5/23 — Both Sides Now 8: Queer Realities/Virtualities; The Horse Hospital, London
17/6/23 — Both Sides Now 8: Queer Realities/Virtualities; Eaton, Hong Kong
22/2/23 — Videoclub Night Watch; Crawley
Sources:
Cruel Optimism, 2011, Lauren Berlant
Cruising Utopia, 2009, José Esteban Muñoz
Gaga Feminism, 2012, Jack Halberstam
The Cultural Politics of Emotion, 2004, Sara Ahmed
The Chevalier D’Eon, 1777, British Museum
NASA Image and Video Library