selected works / 2020–2026

archive

Selected works, public experiments and image research.

The archive traces a practice built around neural networks, code, synthetic media, AI film, public image culture and algorithmic visual systems.

featured archive case / synthetic likeness

Process grid from Bob de Jong’s 2020 and 2021 synthetic likeness work, showing face replacement and AI-generated likeness as research into image trust — Morgan Freeman / Synthetic Likeness, 2020–2021. Process grid showing the transition between performer, synthetic likeness and public recognition.

2020/2021

Morgan Freeman / Synthetic Likeness

Developed in 2020 and publicly circulated in 2021, the work used face replacement and AI-generated likeness as a research medium.

It tested how recognition, credibility and performance behave once a moving image becomes technically reconstructable.

The work belongs to an early public moment in which deepfake technology moved from internet spectacle into journalism, television and cultural debate.

The archive treats the media response as part of the work: not as decoration, but as evidence of how synthetic likeness entered public culture.

mediumsynthetic media, face replacement, AI-generated likeness

research frameimage trust, authorship, moving image

statusarchive case, public circulation

disclosurepresented as synthetic media, not documentary footage

60 Minutes coverage reference for Bob de Jong’s synthetic likeness work, shown as part of the public media response to deepfakes — Public circulation reference. Screenshot from a 60 Minutes segment on synthetic media and deepfakes, used here as archive evidence for the work’s reception.

media60 Minutes / synthetic media segment pressCreative Bloq / online circulation processBTS, original renders, uploads archivedates, links, screenshots

synthetic media / public image

2021

Mark Rutte / Political Image

political image, deepfake research, public debate

A synthetic political image experiment connected to Dutch public debate around deepfakes, media trust and political representation.

Evidence layer to add: De Correspondent references, article screenshots with source captions, BTS photographs and original project material.

02

2022

Sedar Soares / Public Memory

synthetic media, public memory, image reconstruction

A public-facing synthetic media project connected to memory, witness culture and the ethics of image reconstruction.

Evidence layer to add: documentary link, stills, public context and source material.

03

2023–2025

Natalie Portman / AI-assisted De-aging

Apple TV+, film production, de-aging, face-based image treatment

Production work involving AI-assisted de-aging and synthetic image workflows in a film and television context.

Evidence layer to add: cleared BTS material, credit context, production stills and technical notes.

04

current research / 2026

2026

Yellow Drift

language, colour, search engines, visual consensus

Thirty-two languages search for the same colour and fail to return the same yellow.

05

2026

After the Encyclopedia

archives, knowledge systems, multilingual data

A research project on how the same subject mutates across languages until knowledge stops looking universal.

06

2026

Van Gogh Abstracted

image archive, colour abstraction, computational visual research

Van Gogh’s paintings reduced into chromatic structures, one painting at a time.

07

2026

Arrival

moving image, public space, information waves

A metro station observed as a chain of information, anticipation and collective behaviour.

08

current projectsProjects