Ronen Tanchum: Rococo Diffusion Artifacts
December 15, 2025 - January 19, 2026
ZAZCorner Times Square Billboard, South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue
PRESENTED “IN BETWEEN” PROGRAMMING
Rococo Diffusion Artifacts by Ronen Tanchum transforms the language of AI into ornament, poetry, and digital decay. The series turns machine-learning fragments into cinematic relics—floating between elegance and error, nature and code. Tanchum invites viewers into a generative dreamscape where algorithms behave like painters and pixels shimmer like baroque silk, revealing how beauty can surface from the fractures and misreadings of digital interpretation.
Rooted in his investigation of how artificial intelligence interprets beauty, emotion, and imperfection, the project began as a study of how diffusion models fracture classical aesthetics into new, unpredictable forms. “Each moving image becomes a digital relic, a fragment of machine memory attempting to recall an era of ornament and grace,” Tanchum explains. Through this process, he explores the tension between control and chance, technology and nostalgia, and the strange tenderness of human error embedded in machine perception.
Presented on ZAZ Corner, Rococo Diffusion Artifacts gains new meaning through its ornamental and intimate imagery. It appears on a large public digital billboard in Times Square, a place defined by hyper-saturation and constant gaze. The work absorbs the city’s visual noise. It reflects it back as an algorithmic dream of nature.
About Ronen Tanchum
Ronen Tanchum is a contemporary artist and technologist working with generative systems, immersive environments, and artificial intelligence.
His practice merges code, light, and material to construct living visual systems that blur the boundaries between nature and machine. Before founding Phenomena Labs, Tanchum worked as a visual effects director in Hollywood on films such as The Great Gatsby, Transformers, and Deadpool. Today, his works appear across museums and public spaces worldwide, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to Art Basel Miami, Expo Dubai, and the World Economic Forum. His generative installations explore ecological consciousness through data-driven aesthetics, treating algorithms as living organisms that evolve, decay, and bloom.
Artist Website: www.ronentanchum.art Instagram: @ronentanchum.art
Studio: www.phenomenalabs.com | Twitter/X: https://x.com/ronentanchum
Rone Tanchum | Photo Courtesy of the Artist
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