AT Feed
Illustrated Satirical Series on Climate News & A.I.
2025
“AT Feed is a drumbeat of sanity in a quite mad world.”
— Roberta Fallon, Executive Director and Editor, Artblog
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The AT Feed is an award-winning satirical illustrated series considering the confluence of news media, artificial intelligence, and public understanding (or misunderstanding) of current issues regarding nature, the environment, and climate change.
This project began in the summer of 2024, shortly after the public release of AI text and image tool platforms. The series of drawings created during this time serves as both a watermark of the performance and capability of early public-use AI tools as well as a record of climate news during that period.
From December 2024-May 2025, the AT Feed was published every other Wednesday at atfeed.xyz and on Philadelphia’s Artblog, a nonprofit online arts publication. Each post aggregated the top five environmental news headlines from a variety news sources including the BBC, CBS News, CNBC, Fox News, Grist, the Guardian, the Hill, Inside Climate News, LA Times, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the New York Times, NPR, Politico, Science Daily, and Yale Environment 360. Every AT Feed post combined approximately 60 current headlines from these sources into one satirical news article generated via ChatGPT (an AI text generator). The published "story" included links back to the original news articles. An accompanying image was created via Midjourney (an AI image generator), which was then reinterpreted, or "human-processed", by way of a hand-drawn illustration in gouache paint and hatched pen and ink.
The footnote of every AT Feed post includes an estimate of the carbon emissions produced from the creation of each publication. This footnote is intended to be something of an "energy nutrition label," attempting to account for the carbon footprint of production for each post. Its calculation includes use of ChatGPT and MidJourney tools and for hand-drawing at my desk with the lights, heat, and (sometimes) television on in my home. Estimates were calculated based on methods described in this article by Scientific Reports.
Press & Praise for the AT Feed
2025Webby Awards: 2x Honoree: “Weird” & “AI, Immersive & Games”
2025WHYY News Climate Desk
Do you get your climate news from an AI bot? Here’s what that might be like
Screen recording of atfeed.xyz
A tropism is a biological term defined as the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus. Examples of tropism include phototropism (response to light), chemotropism (response to particular substances), hydrotropism (response to water), thigmotropism (response to touch), traumatotropism (response to wound lesion), and electrotropism (response to electric current). Anemotropism refers to an organism's orientation in response to a current of air or wind.
Anemotropism (or this project’s shorthand, “AT”) feels like a fitting title for this experimental web project as this is intended as a space to reflect on how broad understanding (or misunderstanding) of climate and environmental issues is shaped by currents of information, data, and stories that are “in the air.”
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