i.hopethisfinds.you
Link: https://i.hopethisfinds.you/
Artist: Nimrod Astarhan
Description: i.hopethisfinds.you is a work of internet art that responds to the shifting conditions of reading and being read online. By the end of 2025, more than half of global internet traffic was attributed to large language models (LLMs). Websites are being scraped for use as training data or fetched and summarized for users of online chatbots, more than humans browse them in a browser. i.hopethisfinds.you renders itself differently for humans and LLMs, and in both cases, it remains an elusive meandering across rivers, cities, and continents. The work attempts to formalize evasion from standardization while maintaining legibility, archivability, and interactivity.
Artist Statement: Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator. Their practice is based on a post-conceptual approach toward sculpture, installation, and media art, utilizing collaborations, digital technology, and electronic mechanisms. Their research-creation is re-earthing computational media and speculative history. It involves activating non-visible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum contextualized through material, diasporical, historical, and philosophical lenses. Recent showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, ISEA, The Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Die Digitale Düsseldorf, and xCoAx in Graz, Austria. They received grants and awards from the Municipal Arts League of Chicago, the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, and the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, and were a finalist for the Lumen Prize. They taught digital art, code, hardware, and critical theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, China Academy of Art, and Shenkar College of Engineering, Art, and Design.
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Bio: Nimrod Astarhan is an artist, technologist, and educator. Their research-creation in sculpture and media art was exhibited worldwide and on the International Space Station. Showings include the Gwangju Biennial Pavilion Project, Ars Electronica, ISEA, The Ammerman Center Arts & Technology Biennial, and Die Digitale Düsseldorf. They received grants and awards from the Municipal Arts League of Chicago and the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative at the University of Chicago, and were a finalist for the Lumen Prize. They taught digital art, code, hardware, and critical theory at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the China Academy of Art.
