GROKH TUNG TUNG

Grokh Tung Tung
2025
4K video
10 minutes

Exhibited: Edinburgh Art Festival

Two machine learning agents tell each other jokes about real world examples of cheating AIs. They speak in an imitational language inspired by 16^th century Grammelot and composed entirely of the mistaken outputs of a text to speech AI model.

Generated in response to ambiguous prompting techniques developed by the artists, the language includes hallucinations, screams, laughter, musical snippets, and hesitations.

2025 (group show): ARC 1 SHOWCASE
SYBIL, Berlin

Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival
Grokh Tung Tung
2025
4K video
10 minutes
Exhibited: Edinburgh Art Festival

Two machine learning agents tell each other jokes about real world examples of cheating AIs. They speak in an imitational language inspired by 16^th century Grammelot and composed entirely of the mistaken outputs of a text to speech AI model.
Generated in response to ambiguous prompting techniques developed by the artists, the language includes hallucinations, screams, laughter, musical snippets, and hesitations.

London−based artist duo dmstfctn explores complex systems through the lenses of simulation, fiction and experience. Their immersive performances, video installations and video games demystify systems by replicating and exploring them together with audiences, and remystify them by building new stories and worlds atop them.

now (fellowship): N-SPACE
SOMERSET HOUSE STUDIOS, London
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(workshop): ARMS INDUSTRY WIKITHON
NEWSPEAK HOUSE, London
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NEWSPEAK HOUSE
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(news): Postgenerative Language Games
LE RANDOM
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SIDE QUEST
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2025 (solo show): THE MODELS
SOLO CSV, Madrid; The Models
TECNOPOLO, Bologna
(group show): Rhizome World
WSA, New York City; EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL
Edinburgh; ARC 1 SHOWCASE
SYBIL, Berlin; authenticity unmasked
EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL, Edinburgh; OS2.4
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM, Singapore; ELAP 2025
NUNNERY GALLERY, London; Bits & Bots
CENTRO DE HISTORIAS, Zaragoza; Me + You + Them = Us
ADAPTER, Budapest
(screening): EAST LONDON ART PRIZE LATE
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, London; ELAP LATE
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, London
(live): NEXT LEVEL
AKADEMIE FUR THEATER, Dortmund
(talk): FANGO 1000
SOLO CSV, Madrid
(panel): AI, Creativity and Ethics
V&A, London; ars electronica
POSTCITY, Linz; New Metabolism
GLUON, Brussels
(publication): FANGO 1000
BIANJIE RESEARCH GROUP; Investigating Decentralized Action in Art
LECTURIS
(news): dmstfctn & Lawrence Lek
Digital Deal podcast; dmstfctn ^× Lawrence Lek
ART IS NOT A THING; What happens when AI lies?
DOMUS; the monday chatroom
NGUYEN WAHED, London; Prompting as creative writing
MANGROVIA
2024 (live AV): Futur.Shock
FOLD, London; Waluigi's Purgatory
SERPENTINE^×HQI, London; ROMA EUROPA FESTIVAL
MATTATOIO, Rome; ROBOT FESTIVAL
SAN BARBAZIANO, Bologna; CRYPTIDS with Günseli Yalcinkaya
SONAR+D, Barcelona; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
SYSTEM, Shanghai; INDEX Biennial
GNRATION, Braga; Waluigi's Purgatory
MEET, Milan; SMART LIFE FESTIVAL
TEATRO S. CARLO, Modena; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
MUDAERUK, Seoul
(group show): Waluigi's Purgatory
ARE YOU FOR REAL; Decentralized Futures
ETOPIA, Zaragoza; Decentralized Futures
KOELHUIS, Eindhoven
(screening): NOINDEX: is nothing forever?
ICA, London
(award): S+T+ARTS nomination
ARS ELECTRONICA; SOLO AI AWARD
GOLDSMITHS, London
(news): what happens when an AI cheats?
DAZED; Kill the Luigi in your head
NERO; dmstfctn & Evita Manji
COEVAL MAGAZINE; conversation with evita & dmstfctn
T-MAG; In conversation with Evita Manji & dmstfctn
T-MAG; Networked Worlds
WEPRESENT
(residency): European Digital Deal
LEONARDO SUPERCOMPUTER, Bologna
(talk): bodystacked
LCF, London
2023 (group show): Directory
THE WRONG BIENNALE, Alicante
(live AV): Semibreve
THEATRO CIRCO, Braga
(talk): Autonomous Worlds day
Istanbul; Beyond Cultures of Ownership
SOMERSET HOUSE, London; Godmode Epochs
SERPENTINE, Twitch; dmstfctn plays Godmode Epochs
SERPENTINE, Twitch; AI UK 2023
QEII CENTRE, London
(award): EDIGMA SEMIBREVE AWARD
Braga
(publication): Large Lore Models
METALABEL; Large Lore Models
METALABEL
(residency): ARTECHO
ETOPIA, Zaragoza
(news): Turret Theory
SERPENTINE; Public Engagement Grant
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE, London; dmstfctn investigates contemporary environments
CLOT; how to train ai?
ARTRIBUNE
2022 (live AV): GOD MODE (ep. 1)
SERPENTINE, London; IMPAKT FESTIVAL
HET HUIS, Utrecht; UNSOUND BUBBLES
Kraków; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
HQI, London
(news): Artist conversation with dmstfctn
IMPAKT TV
2021 (book): ECHO FX
KRISIS PUBLISHING; Ø
FLATLINE PRESS/HYPERDUB
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
CAFE OTO, London
(group show): NONPLUSULTRABLACK
SYNNIKA, Frankfurt
(news): Demystification Committee debuts echo fx
AQNB; ECHO FX
SLEEK; REALITY CHECK AHEAD
CLOT
2020 (live AV): CTM ^× TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, Berlin
(solo): OFFSHORE MATTERS
AKSIOMA, Ljubljana
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS
FORUM STADTPARK, Graz
(talk): Moneylab #8
AKSIOMA
(news): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
NERO; CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
NEW YORK TIMES; Tax Havens: Normalized Grand Theft
WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART
2019 (live AV): DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, London
(solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, Milan
(group show): A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
C-MINE, Genk; PORTO DESIGN BIENNALE
TRINDADE, Porto; A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
LUMA, Arles
(screening): Ø.29
CORSICA STUDIOS, London; PORTO DESIGN BIENNALE
CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, Porto; INTERFACE CHAOS
TRUST, Berlin; INTERFACE CHAOS
EVENING CLASS, London
(music): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
2018 (live AV): transmediale face value
HKW, Berlin; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, Athens; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS STEGI, Athens; Radical Networks
SPEKTRUM, Berlin
(group show): 4^th Design Biennial
ARTER, Istanbul; 4^th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
ARTER, Istanbul; transmediale face value
HKW, Berlin; Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, Winterthur
(talk): Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, Rotterdam; Automated Landscapes
HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, Rotterdam; transmediale face value
HKW, Berlin; IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, Utrecht; MoneyLab #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, London; Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, London
(publication): A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SCHLOSS-POST; The Offshore Economist
Rizosfera
(news): What Audre Lorde's Language of Self Care Can Teach
FRIEZE; Happy tax haven to all
NERO
2017 (talk): the influencers
CCCB, Barcelona
(residency): Vilem Flusser Residency
TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin
(music): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM