Signal Flags is a series of short AI video works created from Jan 24-Feb 7, 2026 in response to specific moments of citizen expression and state presence during events in Minneapolis. The pieces translate tension and instability into visual signals that reminded me of maritime signal flags. Rather than documenting events directly, each work functions as a kind of coded transmission—an interpretation of the atmosphere surrounding a particular event or day or sequence of days. The focus is on alertness and the feeling that something in the everyday has shifted, using a visual language that is both direct and symbolic.

This Signal Flags series is part of Remote Viewing, a new ongoing collection that looks at how geopolitical events are experienced at a distance. Across the collection, I act as an observer interpreting signals from afar, creating visual responses that register the emotional and atmospheric conditions of unfolding events.

Developed alongside an evolving investigation of AI visual logic, these works draw on an understanding of how AI models respond to image, pattern, and signal, therefore allowing machine perception to participate in translating lived experience into visual form.

Sound design by the artist.