Brett Amory
Instagram: @brettamory
Website: http://www.brettamory.com
Bio: Brett Amory is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, and algorithm guided imagery. His practice centers on z0glyphic 913, a recursive speculative language. This language acts as an engine, tracing the evolution of information online by reprocessing its own outputs. It embraces ambiguity as a catalyst for invention, reflecting remix culture and theories that automated agents sustain much of the web. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; and de Young Museum, San Francisco. Brett Amory received a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts University. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. He is also a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.
Statement: "z0glyphic 913 is a recursive language system within the NULM framework that forms the core of Brett Amory's practice exploring information evolution online. The system loops its own outputs, treating ambiguity as a generator of new ideas rather than an error. Amory's interdisciplinary work spans painting, installation, and algorithmic image making. His early work captured quiet daily rituals; recent projects examine how networked devices overwrite those rituals in real time. He uses z0glyphic as a reinterpretation engine: digital outputs become physical works that, once documented, re-enter the system as material for further remix. z0glyphic emerged from a desire to push AI systems toward strange, unfamiliar outputs rather than predictable responses. Drawing from internet culture's constant content remixing, it developed as a response to a digital landscape flooded with misinformation, disinformation, and the speculative Dead Internet Theory suggesting bots maintain much of the web. Rather than fixing this chaos, z0glyphic embraces internet weirdness as a creative tool, generating novel meaning through continuous user-AI feedback loops. Ambiguity remains central, leaving interpretation open and highlighting how language, code, and material form continually renegotiate authorship in a networked age."