Supercomposite

Supercomposite is the alias of Steph Maj Swanson,
a multimedia artist and writer based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Loab

 

 

 

Steph is best known for her story about the AI-generated cryptid Loab, which Forbes praised as “genuinely interesting and unsettling” and which The Atlantic dubbed “a form of expression that has never existed before.” A multitude of other media outlets have featured Loab, including Rolling Stone, Der Spiegel, Artnet News, BBC Radio, and the ABC. To learn more about Loab, visit loab.ai or read the original viral Twitter thread.

"Loab sparked some lengthy ethical conversations around visual aesthetics, art and technology."

 

Smithsonian Magazine

"The thread, with its genuinely interesting and unsettling elements combined with the mythos of an actual demon lurking within AI algorithms, is something that will probably have the movie rights auctioned off to Netflix by the end of the day."

 

Forbes 

"Loab might seem like standard creepypasta, but her origins are a whole lot more mysterious."

 

Rolling Stone

Suicide III

 

Steph wrote and directed the short film Suicide III as a part of ARRG!'s video art installation at DEF CON 31 in Las Vegas. The film employs deepfakes and AI-generated imagery to tell a story about a series of fictional political events surrounding the DEF CON 31 AI Village.

other work

 

Steph’s other writing was deemed “disturbing” by The Washington Post, while her body of video and still image work was described by Galleries West as “the merging of repulsive with beautiful.”