Subverting the Systems Shaping the Tech-Driven Age
- Francis Joseph Seballos
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read

I’m interested in power — especially the kind that hides in plain sight.
As an artist, I use technology not just as a tool but as a subject: a living system that shapes identity, value, and visibility. My work is about exposing and subverting those systems — taking the invisible mechanics of the internet and turning them into art.
Before becoming an artist, I worked at Google. There, I learned how algorithms make decisions about what the world gets to see. That experience became the foundation for my practice. I realized that if the internet was a system of control, it could also be a canvas — a place to rewrite narratives from within.
My Facetune Portraits series continues this mission. Using AI beauty filters, I explore how technology defines desirability and perfection — and how art can reclaim individuality from those definitions.
I’m less interested in fighting technology than in reprogramming it. I want to transform data into dialogue, and algorithms into art that thinks critically about the structures that built it.
Art has always reflected its era. Mine is built from code, pixels, and power.



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