Sleeper is an artist, educator, and aspiring technologist whose work weaves through various topics concerning recent technologies, overt activist positions, popular philosophy, and dark comedy. He investigates the ways that these topics overlap for us as we navigate, with limited success, complex political crises through clumsy interfaces, problematic devices, and faulty systems. These investigations arrive for the viewer in the form of inherently interdisciplinary artworks and curatorial experiments, which provoke questions about how we work toward a more desirable collective future, among the machines, atop a planet in crisis.
_absurd-freedom_
Clint Sleeper
2026, HD Video
Drawing on Camus and the inherent frustration emerging from our failure to reconcile a life of reason with a universe otherwise, I write a desperate love {e}mail to (a) tiny_llama or prepare a misguided lecture on the existential underpinnings of a technocratic near future. The frustrations of living a free life are passed on to those who inherit the universe. And until then, we are warmer. *Images and sound (excluding voiceover) from out of date AI libraries running locally.
Developed as an artist in residence at BKN during the summer of 2026 for Small File Media Festival and AI Slop Film Festival.
Common Dreams, AI- REM
Chalet Comellas, Clint Sleeper, Mark Baker
2026, HD Video
Videos from AI generators are stylized and layered with images from Venice (“the city of dreams”) to illustrate and complicate the seven most frequently queried dreams, from which people request interpretations by popular large language models. Further complicated with a poem from Walt Whitman and an original score, the peculiar dreamscapes seem to ponder questions about how much the machines can know about us, or what, if anything, we know about ourselves.
Developed as an artist in residence at BKN during the summer of 2025 for Le Musée d’Art Normal.
