Kai Miller

Every Image I Ever Was traces the path of personal memory as it is entrusted to systems structurally indifferent to its content. Through various methods of computational decay, this project feeds the artist’s personal photographic archive into systems that are incapable of recognizing what they signify. Rather than returning a copy, the algorithm offers instead a complete reconstruction—a memory rebuilt by an indifferent machine. These deteriorated images are projected onto forgotten domestic spaces and then rephotographed. The work confronts the erosion of meaning as personal images are mediated by systems that were never intended to care for them.

Kai Miller (b. Jakarta, Indonesia) is a multimedia artist working across moving and still images. His work investigates how images function and transform within today’s landscape of technologically mediated image-making.