tasteslop w/ Emily Segal

Emily Segal coined the term “tasteslop”, which speaks to the sort of slick, recycled modern visuals that we think are cool but feel strangely empty of human idiosyncrasies. It is beautiful blandness, an empty aestheticism, much of it generated by AI platforms such as Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT and replicated by the algorithm. Join us for lecture on Tasteslop by Emily Segal ⊹ ࣪ ˖ ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Emily Segal is a brand strategist, writer and trend forecaster. She co-founded strategy firm Nemesis, called an “‘alternative consultancy’” by the New Yorker. Nemesis has worked on strategy, positioning, narrative and cultural analysis for many of the most interesting and iconic brands in the world, from Urbit to Hermès. They also publish cultural analysis in Nemesis Memos on Substack and run the Autonomous Strategy workshops. Emily previously co-founded the trend forecasting group K-HOLE, best known for coining the term normcore. K-HOLE’s free PDFs on the nature of millennial change were downloaded half a million times and Vogue called them “pop culture’s favorite trend forecasters”. Emily’s debut novel, Mercury Retrograde (2020), was a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ presented alongside our latest exhibition at tiat, 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, our EIN is: 39-3448606.