“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 the occult and technology enthusiasts Gnostic Technology. She co-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 2024). She developed several occult algorithm prototypes, co-founded a fake startup, published zines and designed a tarot deck.
Occult
Mercurial Minutes
gnostic.technology
Hermetechnics Inc.
Hermetechnics Inc.
Hermetechnics Inc. Instagram
Projects
2024
Devil in my Language Model at SWPACA (2024)
Gnostic Technology Showcase in Low Misimo Lodge Silver City (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 (2023)
❗️Occulture Lecture: Garland of Letters - Sacred Alphabets and AI-Language Models (2023)
Dream Palace Athens: Machine Dreaming - Enhancing dream recall and analysis through generative algorithms (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 (2022)
❗️Gnostic Technology Zine vol. 0 (2022)
❗️Language in the Age of AI: Deciphering Voynich Manuscript on Trans-States (2022)
Telesterion Workshop Berlin: Probing the Third Mind with AI (2022)
The Fabric of Magic Interview with Apiary Studios (2022)
Berlin Triad Performance at Occulture (2022)
Triggering Anomalies with AI at Science and Consciousness (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)
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
0e20f2
❗️0e20f2 Bandcamp
0e20f2 A/V @MonomerTV
0e20f2 Tape at Industrial Coast
Theia Mania
Theia Mania Instagram
Theia Mania Mixcloud
Eva Kadm0n
Eva Kadm0n Bandcamp
Eva Kadm0n Instagram
Other
Social
❗️Mercurial Minutes Instagram
Hermetechnics Inc Instagram
Tarot of the Latent Spaces Instagram
Goodreads