Studio 207 · 20 - 23 November, 10:00am–6:00pm
“Cannibal Slops” investigates the phenomenon of AI slop and the self-cannibalism of generative models. The project explores how recursive image-generation processes, encapsulated in infinite visual loops, expose the entropic drift of artificial intelligence systems. Emerging amid the rise of slopaganda — a massive overproduction of synthetic media driven by engagement and virality — Cannibal Slops examines how artificial narratives saturate the digital sphere, eroding meaning and dissolving the boundaries between truth and noise.
Using generative slops extracted from social networks — images depicting figures such as Trump or Musk as grotesque caricatures of heroism — the project re-injects these synthetic slop fragments into recursive metabolic loops of ingestion and excretion. Through these cycles, the images corrupt themselves, producing semantic breakdowns and visual hallucinations that reveal the degenerative logic of model collapse (Model Autophagy Disease): a computational form of algorithmic self-cannibalism marked by entropy loss and semantic drift.
Functioning as a cannibalistic laboratory, Cannibal Slops turns this systemic vulnerability into an instrument of poetic sabotage. By feeding the machine with its own excretions, it accelerates derealization and transforms informational saturation into a critical aesthetic experience. These unstable aesthetics bear the plastic signature of collapse — where degeneration becomes resistance, and algorithmic cannibalization turns into a strategy of subversion.
Marta Revuelta is a media artist and interaction designer living and working in Geneva. She earned her Master's degree in Interaction Design (Media Design) from the Geneva University of Art and Design, HEAD – Genève, in 2018.
Fascinated by emerging technologies and their mechanisms of control, she focuses her research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in security, surveillance systems, and techno-military ecosystems. Specifically, she is
drawn to the ethical challenges as well as the pitfalls and risks associated with AI, making these dilemmas the very core of her work.
At the intersection of critical design, art, engineering, and data science, her practice explores the operability, perception, and aesthetics of autonomous systems and the roles they play in our political and social ecosystems. Through her work, she investigates the concept of ‘machinic perception’—how machines ‘see’ and construct the notion of a ‘target’ and the identification of ‘suspects’ through computer vision algorithms. From both an artistic and scientific perspective, she aims to unveil the opacity surrounding these technologies, transforming them into narratives and experiences. Her goal is to demystify the ‘oracle effect’ of AI-driven decision-making predictions, inviting audiences to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of these systems.
Her artistic intent also seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on the ethical challenges and societal implications of "intelligent" autonomous systems in our digitalized world. In 2025, Marta received the Artistic Research and Methodological Experimentation Grant from Barcelona Crea at Hangar in Barcelona, and was shortlisted for the Pax Art Awards – Swiss Media Arts. She previously received the Nestlé Young Creation Award (2022), a Research Grant from the City of Geneva (2022), the Art Humanity Prize from the Red Cross, ICRC and HEAD – Genève (2018), and the Déliées Grant from the Geneva Cantonal Fund for Contemporary Art (2018).
Her work has been presented in Switzerland and internationally, including the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz, Piksel Festival 2024 in Bergen, BRAIN(S) at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid (2022), Concerned at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva (2021), Power to the Commons at the Afropixel Festival in Dakar (2021), and Digital Overload at the festival in Düsseldorf (2020), among others. Furthermore, Marta is the co-founder of Bureau de Crise, a research collective bringing together artists, engineers, designers, and citizens to address issues of privacy and digital rights in contemporary society. She also conducts workshops at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève) and gives lectures on topics related to AI ethics and artistic practice.