Miljohn Ruperto's Exhibition at Stanford Critiques AI's Environmental and Social Impacts

Artist Miljohn Ruperto presents a solo exhibition at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center in Palo Alto, featuring works that examine artificial intelligence's ecological consequences and historical parallels. The show includes 'Fathoms (Tartarapelagic)' (2025–26), which uses AI to generate creatures based on species threatened by deep-sea mining for minerals essential to AI hardware. Other pieces reference colonial history through recreated Thomas Cole paintings in VR and reinterpretations of Caspar David Friedrich's work. Ruperto's 'The Great Disappointment' series, commissioned by the Cantor, explores apocalyptic themes and time collapse. A related film, 'The New Society,' is displayed at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. The exhibition highlights tensions between technological advancement, environmental destruction, and human desire for connection.