Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise

A 20 Minute "Documanifesto" about AI images: how they work, and their entanglement with problematic histories of categorizing and classifying human beings. It is an artist statement about how making images with these technologies may move forward if engaged in self-reflection and critique, ending with an artist's manifesto about seeking ways of using these tools that move "beyond the center" of stereotypes and internet generated consensus.