sonder gallery
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Sonder Gallery is an exhibition space for work made at the intersection of human attention and machine process. The gallery shows a single configuration at a time — a curated arrangement of pieces across sound, image, text, and time — then clears the walls and begins again.

There is no archive of everything. There is only what is showing now, and the record of what was shown before.

the gallery is the
constraint.

a finite room
not an infinite scroll.

The work here is made collaboratively between a human artist and AI systems. This is not hidden. The collaboration itself — the negotiations, the artifacts, the unexpected outputs — is part of what the gallery exhibits. When AI depth estimation fails on a mirror, or when a language model produces a phrase the prompter didn't expect, these moments are not errors to be cleaned up. They are the work.1

1 The principle: the seams should show, but elegantly. The process of making is continuous with the thing made. What used to be called "the studio" is now part of the exhibition.

Every piece carries traces of how it was made — sensor characteristics, processing artifacts, the grain of the medium. These traces are not noise. They are signatures. The gallery takes its name from the conviction that every consciousness engaged in the work — human, machine, or the hybrid thing that emerges between them — is producing something as vivid and complex as any other.

Some works exist only in time. Video and broadcast pieces are never embedded or available on demand. They appear on the channel — a separate stream that runs when it runs and is dark when it is dark. You come to it, or you miss it. This is deliberate. Not everything should be available whenever you want it. Some things require you to show up.

This gallery has no social media presence, no comments, no likes, no metrics. Individual pieces have URLs. If you find something worth sharing, you copy the link and send it to someone. That's the only distribution mechanism: one person deciding another person should see this.

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just the work
and the looking

If you want to reach the person behind this, the address is hello at sonder dot gallery. There is no newsletter to subscribe to. When new work appears, it simply appears.