“I use technology in order to hate it more properly.” Nam June Paik
Karin Valis is a freelance Berlin-based machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird. Her work focuses mainly on finding conceptual resonances between the latest machine learning technology and the esoteric. She writes Mercurial Minutes and hosts monthly meetings of an online coven Gnostic Technology. She is the AI architect behind Palinode Productions, a platform for Deep Learning Philosophy and she co-hosts a special series of Thoth Hermes Podcast on interfaces between Science and the Occult.
</br> She hosted workshops, talks and panel discussions such as Arana in the Feed (Uroboros 2021), Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript (Trans-States 2022), Remembering Our Future: Shamanism, Oracles and AI (NYU Shanghai 2022), Divine Embeddings: Large Language Models and Sacred Alphabets (Occulture 2023) and Devil in My Language Model (SWPACA, Devil24 2024). She developed several occult algorithm prototypes, co-founded a fake startup, published zines and designed a tarot deck.
Occult
Main Talks (abstracts)
2024 New Mutation of the Language Virus: Cut-up method and AI
2024 Devil in My Language Model
2023 Garland of Letters: Sacred Alphabets and LLMs
2022 Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript
Mercurial Minutes
Palinode Productions
Palinode Productions Introduction
❗️Palinode Productions Website
gnostic.technology
Thoth Hermes Podcast
S11E1 - AI and the Occult Interview with Karin Valis
Hermetechnics Inc.
Hermetechnics Inc.
Hermetechnics Inc. Instagram
Projects
2024
ESP Research Unit Experiment Group (2024)
Time Loops Book Club (2024)
❗️Thoth Hermes Podcast - AI and the Occult Interview (2024)
Kovove Duse (Metal Souls) by Jano Sutavay - AI programming (Galanta, Slovakia, 2024)
New Mutation of the Language Virus: Cutups and AI - Guest Talk in Carl Abrahamsson’s and Vanessa Sinclair’s Cut Up Masterclass (2024)
Devil in my Language Model at Devil24 (Halifax Canada, 2024)
❗️Devil in my Language Model in Fenris Wolf 12 (2024)
Devil in my Language Model at SWPACA (Albuquerque NM 2024)
Gnostic Technology Showcase in Low Misimo Lodge (Silver City NM, 2024)
🎵Thunder Perfect: Full Moon Witches Night in Madame Claude (Berlin, 17.08.2024)
🎵Eva Kadm0n -They Still Shoot Horses Album + Zine (2024)
🎵Eva Kadm0n & Sarefo in Madame Claude (Berlin, 04.05.2024)
🎵Eva Kadm0n - Threat Assessment Perspective Single (2024)
🎵Eva Kadm0n - Live, Laugh, Lexapro Single (2024) \
2023
❗️Garland of Letters - Occulture Recording (2023)
❗️Gnostic Technology Zine vol. 1 (2023)
Document 23: Zine from Art23Magic Retreat (2023)
❗️SHWEP Oddcast: Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Garland of Letters in the Fool (Berlin, 2023)
❗️Occulture Lecture: Garland of Letters - Sacred Alphabets and AI-Language Models (Berlin, 2023)
Dream Palace Athens: Machine Dreaming - Enhancing dream recall and analysis through generative algorithms (Athens, 2023)
0xsalon SalonCast005 ::: Prophet Motives (2023)
This Podcast is a Ritual: How to make Magic with Machines w/ Karin Valis (2023)
2022
Tarot of the Latent Spaces Update (2022)
Tarot of the Latent Spaces Exhibition in Gelegenheit (Berlin, 2022)
❗️Gnostic Technology Zine vol. 0 (2022)
❗️Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript on Trans-States (Northampton UK, 2022)
Telesterion Workshop Berlin: Probing the Third Mind with AI (Berlin, 2022)
The Fabric of Magic Interview with Apiary Studios (2022)
Berlin Triad Performance at Occulture (Berlin, 2022)
Triggering Anomalies with AI at Science and Consciousness (Broughton Hall UK, 2022)
❗️Panel Discussion: Remembering Our Future: Shamanism, Oracles and AI (2022)
Myth and Lore: From Trees to Timbre (2022)
2021
❗️Tarot of the Latent Spaces (2021)
Veštby zo Silicon Valley (Slovak) (2021)
Arcana in the Feed: Navigating Internet Archetypes (2021)
🎵0e20f2 Pancreas Denial EP
Readings from the Latent Spaces (2021)
2020
Towards Networked Communion Publication (2020)
Shamanism and Digitalisation Review (2020)
Cellulare Source Code (2020)
❗️Oracles for Troubling Times: Designing new divination systems (2020)
Go Ask Aliester! (2020)
Sounds
Eva Kadm0n
Eva Kadm0n Bandcamp
Eva Kadm0n Instagram
0e20f2
❗️0e20f2 Bandcamp
0e20f2 A/V @MonomerTV
0e20f2 Tape at Industrial Coast
Theia Mania
Theia Mania Instagram
Theia Mania Mixcloud
Other
Social
❗️Mercurial Minutes Instagram
Hermetechnics Inc Instagram
Tarot of the Latent Spaces Instagram
Goodreads