I’ve been enjoying learning about the art of Trevor Paglen, an artist whose work has often intersected with AI and who has a Chicago background. I especially enjoyed being turned onto the phrase “psyop realism” as an artistic aesthetic. I’ve unwittingly been a practitioner of this for quite some time. Here are two videos on Paglen, one short and one longer that goes into psyops and UFOs, etc. (Also see this long piece related to that.)