SOME WORK

now you’re in my pocket2025

now you’re in my pocket is a collection of portable web-art objects—small, hand-held devices each embedded with a unique offline browser-based artwork. These objects create their own WiFi networks; when you connect, a captive portal appears, but rather than a login screen, it displays the embedded artwork.

Each piece is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero and a battery salvaged from a discarded vape. These artworks live entirely offline, only accessible by being physically near the object. This makes it so that the work can’t be shared via a link, and must be shared by sharing the object itself.

The project presents an alternative model for sharing net art through embodied, ephemeral exchanges rather than scalable, cloud-based distribution. It proposes a reimagining of computer networking driven by interpersonal relation rather than profit and efficiency.

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Infer: AI Accountability Tools for Artists2025

Infer is an application that helps artists determine whether their artworks have been used in the training of generative AI models. Built on the technique of membership inference attacks, Infer analyzes user-submitted images to assess their likelihood of inclusion in a model’s training data.

While this technique has existed in academic research, Infer brings it into public reach for the first time, offering artists a tangible way to address the ways their labor is being extracted for use in AI systems.

The tool implements the architecture described in Membership Inference of Diffusion Models (arXiv:2301.09956), adapted into a usable web interface powered by Flask and Hugging Face APIs. It also maintains a growing, opt-in database of affected artists, alongside legal resources for recourse and collective action.

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Index of Casual Typology
with Maria Arenas and Yuan Zichen
2024–present

The Index of Casual Typology collects collections.

Risograph print series and online platform. Presented at LARPA Small Batch Dataset Farmers Market in 2024 and at Rhizome World in 2025.

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Bent2023

Bent is a musical performance tool that uses a software-defined radio receiving police scanner audio to allow users to manipulate the signal output with pitch bend, bit crush, and delay effects.

It uses an Arduino as a MIDI and SDR controller and a Raspberry Pi running Pure Data for digital signal processing.

Landmark2019

Landmark is a short documentary about the Wall Street slave market, located near Wall and Pearl street in the modern day financial district of Manhattan. It’s an exploration of space and memory, as well as of what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget.

The work is written up in Hyperallergic from a screening and Q&A at the Spectacle Theater with director Nuotama Bodomo.

© Sahal 2025