Press & Media

Recordings, texts and profile pages by others that show, discuss or cite the work.

Talks and recordings

2025-1251 Ways to Spell the Image Giraffe: The Hidden Politics of Token Languages in Generative AI39C3, media.ccc.deTalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr, 38 min, English with German translation, CC BY 4.0. 51 spellings of “giraffe” from tokens, and what the token dictionary decides before any training.

2025-03Screen Walk with Leon-Etienne Kühr and Ting-Chun LiuThe Photographers’ Gallery, London, with Fotomuseum WinterthurLive-coded session on generative AI fed with its own output: feedback as a strategy and cybernetics as a framework. Recording on the gallery’s page.

2024-12arafed futures – An Artist Dialogue on Chip Storage and AI Accelerationism38C3, media.ccc.deArtist dialogue with Leon-Etienne Kühr, 60 min. “arafed” is a meaningless word that spread across captions and product texts, set beside NVIDIA A100 chips made by TSMC.

2023-12Self-cannibalizing AI37C3, media.ccc.deTalk with Leon-Etienne Kühr, 53 min. Feedback, misuse and hacking on text-to-image models: dataset filtering, CLIP, recursive generation.

Texts about the work

2026-06Model Collapse: On Recursion, Noise, and Uncharted Machine VisionsViolaine Boutet de Monvel, arXiv:2607.09705A media-archaeology essay comparing analog video feedback with recursive AI training. It cites the 38C3 talk and the TEDA poster, and describes the feedback loops of Liu and Kühr in BLIP-2 and Stable Diffusion.

Profiles

2026Digi-Lehrfellows Thüringen 2026: Ting-Chun LiuStifterverbandFellow page. The project Lokale KI-Anwendung im Bewegtbild-Studio is a seminar on local open-source AI tools without cloud services.

Ting-Chun Liu, staff pageBauhaus-Universität WeimarArtistic associate, Professur Crossmediales Bewegtbild.

2024-12Speaker page, arafed futures38C3, CCC FahrplanSpeaker profile for the 38C3 talk.