KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026 -- FAKE and REAL

Sunday, 14 June 2026

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026 -- FAKE and REAL

I went to the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026 exhibition in Santa Fe on June 13th at El Museo Cultural. It runs through June 21, 2026:

AR TROLLING

We trolled the CURRENTS exhibition with my AUGMENTED REALITY sculptures at the entrance, making these Semi-FAKE scenes:

CC Collaboration

AUGMENTED REALITY

My AR figure drawing/sculpture collaboration with Chris Cherry

in front of the real CURRENTS entrance

I wanted to participate in the CURRENTS exhibition, so we added some of my AUGMENTED REALITY objects in front of the CURRENTS 2026 exhibition entrance in Santa Fe. The AR sculpture above is a 3D collaboration between Chris Cherry and I. The AR sculpture below is a fake Alebrije, inspired by the 8 big Alebrije sculptures in downtown Albuquerque right now:

May 22, 2026 -- ALEBRIJES

AUGMENTED ALEBRIJE

Inspired by the 8 big ALEBRIJE sculptures

currently in downtown Albuquerque

May 22, 2026 -- ALEBRIJES

Midjourney

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FAKE AR and AI animation

It was too dark inside to add the Augmented Reality figures
We had previously added Augmented Reality sculptures to the Denver Art Museum

FAKED with AI

I used AI to revise the Augmented Reality scenes above -- specifically in Google's FLOW -- to remake the above AR FAKE scenes in a composite below:

CC Collaboration

May 22, 2026 -- ALEBRIJES

FLOW

FAKE scene in front of the CURRENTS 2026 exhibition

with 2 of my AUGMENTED REALITY figures

CC Collaboration

May 22, 2026 -- ALEBRIJES

FLOW

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More AI ALEBRIJES in the

FAKE scene in front of the CURRENTS 2026 exhibition

Full FAKE video

THE REAL EXHIBITION

The following photos are from the REAL CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026 exhibition, un-doctored by my AI:

THE LONELY REEF

Santa Fe

By Day, in front of the CURRENTS exhibition

By Night, in front of the CURRENTS exhibition

THE LONELY REEF

Zeve Cohen and Hayden Carey

(Santa Fe)

View inside the front gallery

of CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2026

CLAY PILLAR

New York City

Animation still: Prompt: "Life Drawing"

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Animation Prompt: "Life Drawing"

This was done with TouchDesigner and Streaming Diffusion:

Stream Diffusion V2

The visitor would vocally say what kind of images he wanted to see, and those images would be projected large in a constantly quick-changing animation. The visitor would also distort those images in real time by pulling and shaping a piece of foam clay in their hands: