Latent Swamp Field Lab w/ Kelly Andres

Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Duckweed Training Model (512px), Digital print from StyleGAN checkpoint output, 2026.
Image: Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Duckweed Training Model (512px), Digital print from StyleGAN checkpoint output, 2026.

Latent Swamp Field Lab w/ Kelly Andres
Saturday, March 21, 12–3 pm
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

Related Events: Latent Swamp Opening Reception, Friday, March 20, 8–10 pm

Latent Swamp Field Lab is a 3-hour participatory workshop exploring the relationship between ecological systems and generative image models. Participants engage with duckweed growth modules to examine how datasets are constructed and how curated image ecologies shape AI-generated outputs. 

Participants will explore parallels between biological growth systems (duckweed, wetlands, speculative food futures) and generative image systems (datasets, local AI, open-source tools). Through short lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities, the workshop invites artists and community members to design their own “image research ecology” and consider what it means to create localized, open-source, and non-extractive AI systems in a post-digital context.

No technical background required.

Registration

Free for members, $30 for non-members. Purchase/renew your membership here. Sign up for the workshop by filling out the form below. Non-member payment may be made the day of the workshop.

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Kelly Andres

Artist Bio

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (she/her) is an artist whose practice entangles ecology, technology, and forms of perception. Working in rural central Alberta on Treaty 6 territory, she brings together living systems, generative media, sensory installation, and participatory practices. Her work takes shape as speculative ecologies, bio-mediated processes and systems inspired by lichen, duckweed, and microbial cultures. Andres holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University, Montreal, where her dissertation Radicle Assemblages explored multispecies companionship and post-anthropocentric aesthetics. Her current projects, You, Me, the Lichen & Spore, and Saccharosonics investigate machine learning as a symbiotic collaborator, exploring notions of data gleaning, and distributed forms of sensing and perception.

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