Announcing ✦ Contingent by @jamesbloom01 x Gottfried Jäger
Each work exists as a live networked system rather than a fixed image.
Using a decentralized peer-to-peer network, the visuals shift depending on where, when, and by whom the piece is being viewed.
Built in collaboration with generative photography pioneer Gottfried Jäger, the series extends Jäger’s 1967 light-image experiments into the networked digital era.
Edition of 200
Releasing May 21 on @objktone
An exploration of the phenomenology of digital objects in a network. New expansion of my series shown at MoMI - Museum of the Moving Image, New York. The dynamic 3D artworks change according to peoples' live views. View any piece and it changes every other piece in the series for everyone else. Location also changes the artworks. All the work is based on a single image - Gottfried Jäger's 1967 conceptual generative photograph (shown here at the end). His single 'System Image' becomes multiple simultaneous variations complicated by their network relations
WILDERNESS
21- channel video and sound installation.
May 9th to November 29th.
European Cultural Centre, Venice
During the 61st Venice Biennale.
Palazzo Mora, Strada Nova, 3659, Venezia.
Happ
y to be part of this exhibition, the first by our new UMA collective. My work will be shown alongside @tamikothiel@natasastearns@johnsanborn707@willpap24@nandadagostino@nina_sobell and @terryflaxton
'MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: CONTROL, PROGRESS AND THE BLACK BOX'. will be a dialogue between myself and my old friend the renowned artist Alex May. Hosted by the Computer Arts Society in London, 15th April, 6pm. The brilliant Bronac Ferran will moderate. Talk is in person and online. Link in bio and here:
Thanks @computerartssoc@cloudmemory@alexmayarts@microartsgroup@seancuttlefish ❤️
Half Cheetah is currently on show at the CICA Museum, South Korea. The exhibition runs until 1st March. The artworks are Reinforcement Learning AI models that run in real-time, but make no forward progress and never arrive at a destination. Bice to see one of these pieces being shown at large scale, thanks @cicamuseum
Guest Lecture Announcement ✨
𝘼𝘿𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙎𝘼𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙇 𝘼𝙋𝙋𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙐𝙎
𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚
by James Bloom @jamesbloom01
As part of the 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 postgraduate module
Thu the 12th of Feb, at 5pm
CGB 202
With society absorbing new technological innovations at breakneck speed, can art reveal something about our place in this relentlessly changing environment? James Bloom uses technological innovation as a method to deconstruct the system itself, pushing new technologies beyond their limits. Advanced Reinforcement Learning AI models, Computer Vision systems and blockchains are broken down until a human truth is revealed. In this talk, Bloom will walk us through his process and will also discuss how the history of computer art has been driven by a desire to make technological systems more humane.
James Bloom uses technological innovation to generate perceptual problems. He takes complex code-based and material production techniques and combines them in unintended ways, often to the point of failure, triggering new states. He has exhibited internationally including at MOMI, ZKM, Abu Dhabi Art and The Wrong Biennale.
Images from his work 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘩, 2025
More pictures from my current exhibition with Gottfried Jäger at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. Anyone in the world can change the artworks inside the museum by viewing them here: https://contingent.live/
The artworks appear differently depending on your location. Thanks @movingimagenyc@reg_ha@artontezos
✦ Exhibition Spotlight ✦
Experience “Contingent” by @jamesbloom01 & Gottfried Jäger at @movingimagenyc , on view until Feb 15 - part of the MoMI x Tezos Foundation partnership.
In 1967, Gottfried Jäger pioneered generative photography. Images created entirely within the apparatus of the camera. Working with Jäger’s original datasets, James Bloom has transposed these “light images” into “data images”.
The work is fundamentally contingent on the network.
Where and when the piece is viewed changes the artwork for everyone in real time. These interactions alter the projections at the Museum of the Moving Image where the data completes its cycle and returns to light.
To commemorate this presentation, the public is invited to collect a process image from the production of “Contingent” at no cost, powered by @objktcom . Click the link in bio 🔗
“Contingent” is on view at MoMI through Feb 15, 2026. This is the first presentation of the 2025-2026 MoMI x Tezos Foundation programming, exploring blockchain as a creative material.
📹 by @oveck
Nice to have my piece on a double-page spread in the first edition of PHREAK MAG. Great show by @phreaking_collective 'does cloud compute (ever) precipitate' on until 24th Jan
The recording of my presentation of Half Cheetah at the 1st CoMDiF International Congress, Madrid, is now online. I talk about how I break Reinforcement Learning agents by turning them against themselves.
Here's the link: https://tv.urjc.es/video/6931e98eae7edfb64505ca00
More pictures of my show at MOMI with Gottfried Jäger. My work is entirely based on one generative photograph of his from 1967, a 'system image' made within the apparatus of the camera. I convert his image into multiple interconnected networked instances which are then complicated in real time by people's live views. Various errors and glitches came up in the process, which were not cleaned up and remain in the work. Thanks @movingimagenyc curator @reg_ha Photo credit @_angela_ferraiolo
