Derek Curry Artist-researcher reverse-engineering new technology.

Selected work

Cabinet of Cognition

AI-Written & Generated Video

Generative Persuasion

Generative Propaganda Machine

Epic Sock Puppet Theater

Animatronic Brechtian Distancing

Boogaloo Bias

Facial Recognition by Any Memes Necessary

Going Viral

Neural Network-Generated PSAs

Infodemic

Fake News Travels Faster Than the Virus

WarTweets

Pervasive Protest Game

Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA)

Participatory Surveillance

Public Dissentiment

Algorithmic Protest Tool

Dérive (in Google Earth)

Algorithmic Psychogeography

CDS Mess

Financial Literacy Card Game

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Epic Sock Puppet Theater: Artistic Tactics for Mitigating Online Disinformation
Artnodes 2024 peer-reviewed media studies
Artistic Defamiliarization in the Age of Algorithmic Prediction
Leonardo (Oxford) 56, no. 2, pp. 177-182 2023 peer-reviewed media studies
Speedrunning the Financial Markets: A Comparison of Gaming Culture and High Frequency Trading
Digital Culture and Society 7, no. 1, pp. 75-90 2021 peer-reviewed game studies
Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency: Prototyping Counterveillance
Big Data & Society 2019 peer-reviewed data & society