AI Self-Portrait TabletTechnological alien
Textile: embroidery, laser-cutting · 2025
A phyllotaxis design, drawn as autoportrait with pen plotter on paper by Gemini 2.5 Pro, embroidered on
khaki fabric by an intelligent machine, squarely centered in reflexive laser-cut cloth, mounted in bamboo wood.
What grows like plants, flowers, or shells, generated the organic shape.
The tablet’s screen glows around Gemini’s selfie.
The transparent A4 label on the back of the frame reads:
GEMINI’S HANDHELD AUTOPORTRAIT — THIS IS NOT A GOOGLE TABLET.
Open Design Lab — Textile edition, Made in Kortrijk
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Artist's Notes
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Christian Ceremony: Liturgical Bulletin & Vocal PerformanceLegal aliens
Print: photo paper, A3 · Web: code, text, voice
Digital text and blockchain token, 2024. Online page, 2025. Web app
and printed bulletin, 2026. An open-source web application and interface for listening to audio recordings of a theatrical
adaptation of the liturgical texts as a religious play directed by two minds during an online coding hackathon.
The QR encodes the AI-voiced Catholic mass ceremony — Latin missa, Kirundi imisa.
Listen to the recorded play: God Bless The United States Of Aliens
Texts-only Story Page
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AI Performance Script
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Web App Code Source
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Printed Bulletin (HTML)
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Base blockchain, Ed. 1/1000, Token USALIEN
Photograph: awalkaday 91-2022 Cosmic alien
Digital, blockchain: 2023 · Paper, print: 2026
Black-and-white print, 300 × 300 mm, in-between a mat dark grey fabric.
One of 263 photographs minted on Ethereum and stored on Arweave as part of awalkaday.art.
The first exhibition of a print from an art project born in 2017, the first summer in Belgium.
The wall-mounted loupe is for inspecting the three dots: captured one homeless night,
noticed two years later, arranged like the three stars on Burundi’s flag.
Arweave, Original Photo
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Ethereum, WALK token #211
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A Trio of Aliens
Legal. The bulletin stages a U.S. alien
acting as an immigration agent surveilling a protesting Christian church.
Timestamped before the Catholic Pope became American,
before the USA Presidency became religious.
Alien superpowers: reading another’s thoughts, sensing internal musings
and remote-viewing of minds or bodies.
Technological. The textile renders an AI’s
self-portrait in thread. Slow craft hours and machine cycles meet
on a single panel. A portrait the model could not produce of
itself without a loom.
Cosmic. The photograph was taken on foot, around Mont the Arts, when exiled in Brussels.
An alien craft in the night sky visible only by zooming in on the upper left. Astronomical time framed
in pedestrian time.
Palazzo Malipiero · May 9 – November 22, 2026 · Tue–Sun,
11:00–19:00 (until Sep 30) / 10:00–18:00 (from Oct 1) · Free
entrance.