Sloptimist Etymologies with Adam Aleksic & Daniel Keller

Join linguist and internet language researcher Adam Aleksic (Etymology Nerd) and "formal" artist and internet theorist, Daniel Keller (who coined the term sloptimist) for a conversation exploring how AI-generated media, algorithmic abundance, and networked culture are transforming the way language, meaning, and taste evolve. — Adam Aleksic is a linguist, writer, and educator best known as the "Etymology Nerd," creating videos about language and internet culture for an audience of more than three million across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Algospeak, which explores how social media is transforming language and communication. A graduate of Harvard College, where he studied linguistics and served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society, Aleksic has lectured on language and social media at leading universities and is a frequent guest on NBC and NPR. He is currently writing a new book examining how technology is reshaping our sense of reality. Daniel Keller is a “former artist,” internet theorist, writer, and entrepreneur who has exhibited internationally as a solo artist and as half of Aids-3D, a seminal post-internet collective. He was formerly co-founder of New Models and Channel.xyz. In 2023-2024 he collaborated with and led cultural strategy at Vaporware, an Urbit-ecosystem startup. — This event is presented alongside our latest exhibition, The Epistemologies of Slop, an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess and generative media. tiat is the intersection of art & technology! we are gallery for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ tiat is 501c3 nonprofit and donations are also tax-deductible, our EIN is: 39-3448606. follow us on insta!