"The Deer (2025) is an adaptation of the first chapter of my novel with Generative AI video. My novel The Deer was once called a surrealist piece written in a realist mode and this, too, seems to be the modus operandi of GenAI—to piece together photorealistic archetypes with the associative turns of dreamlogic. In creating this work, I realized it captured a portion of the reader's experience: just as GenAI bases its creation on countless training media of deer, roads, and trees, so too does a reader of this scene piece together an image of it from flashes of their memories. But how are these images pieced together? Where does one image begin and the other end? These are the questions both GenAI and The Deer help us interrogate."

ABOUT THE ARTIST Dashiel Carrera is a Half-Argentinean novelist, sound media artist, and Human-Computer Interaction researcher. The author of the novel The Deer (Dalkey Archive Press) and an editor at Conjunctions, his fiction, essays, and other writing have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, FENCE, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail and has been supported by Breadloaf, the BANFF Centre and WordTheatre. As a sound media artist, he has won awards for his tech-art experiments from HackPrinceton, HackCooper, Brown Creative Arts Council and has released 6 albums on the label 75OrLessRecords. In collaboration with UKAI Projects, InterAccess, and Coach House Press, he is the founder and lead of the AI Metaphors Workshop (https://www.aimetaphorsworkshop.com/). Currently, he is a Visiting PhD Scholar / Artist at Georgia Tech where he is at work on a large-scale interactive sound piece with inflatable clouds.