Tina Tarighian: abt / art / work
| everyday.tina.zone | Web | ongoing |
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In August 2025, two major events occurred: I took a really good selfie, and Google's native image model (Nano Banana) shipped to the public for free. The latter changed the liquidity of images on the internet overnight, and the former served as the basis for my project, everyday.tina.zone.
Every day, this project lets the model intelligently imagine what I look like X days from the original photo, aging me alongside the model. Through Instagram UI pastiche, my twin ages one day at a time. It's a practice in natural language—how precisely can I describe myself—and a meditative exercise in self-surveillance: studying how I actually document my own life so Her, my twin, can become life-like. 
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| ☆ AI Purity Test | Web | 2025 |
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The Rice Purity Test is a storied freshman ritual… a puritanical scorecard for human hedonism that gives college kids a shared point of comparison. I.e., Have you kissed a girl? Have you done meth?
The AI Purity Test emerged in a climate where AI usage has the same stigma. The test went viral on Twitter and has surpassed two million users and counting. I also made limited merch, and am happy to custom make one for you. 
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| 100 Deep Breaths | Web | 2025 |
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Breath marks the human body's arrival and departure. Like thispersondoesnotexist.com, 100 Deep Breaths stages the uncanny encounter of watching AI-generated humans breathe. The minimal act of inhalation and exhalation unsettles our sense of the real.
Created by creative technologist Tina Tarighian, the project examines the threshold where simulation becomes visceral. One hundred video studies were generated with Google's Veo model. 
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| ☆ Rithm.Love | Web | 2025 |
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Mark Zuckerberg knows you better than your mother.
He's watched your every move on Instagram for years.
He knows what you like, what you don't like, and what you're looking for.
This algorithm has made you conscious of hip dips, disrupted governments, made millionaires overnight.
What if we repurposed it for love?
Your explore page is a mirror of your digital micro-interactions. It's more honest than any dating profile you've ever written.
Other dating apps make you perform. Curate. Lie about loving hiking.
Your algorithm already knows who you'd match with on Rithm.Love.
Rithm.Love: screenshot your explore page. Find your scrollmate. No bios. No prompts. Just pure digital pheromones.
sign up for Rithm.Love
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| What does my Husband Look Like? | Web | 2025 |
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This site uses native image out to generate an interpretation of what your husband (or wife, or breakfast, or job, or anything else) might look like based on a picture of you. When you ask an reasoning model with native image out what your husband looks like, you're watching the model complete that thought using your face, its training data, and its own reasoning. AI models with multimodal input and reasoning do not classify you so much as they dream you up.
I was inspired by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen's ImageNet Roulette 2019, a project that quickly onboarded users into ML training bias as they watched their own faces fall under the labels of "queen," "ballbuster," or even "loser."
What does your husband look like?
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| Fumble Dating | Web | 2025 |
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Fumble is an artistic response to the increasing automation and optimization of human relationships. It satirizes the recent trend of dating apps using AI to not just match people, but to potentially replace the actual dating experience itself. And every single one of them is a total fumble.
This project was inspired by Bumble's recent announcement about developing "AI dating concierges" that could essentially date for you. As Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd stated: *"There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you, with another dating concierge... Then you don't have to talk to 600 people. It will go scan all of San Francisco for you and say, 'These are the three people you really ought to meet.' That's the power of AI when harnessed the right way."*
Start Fumbling....
Fumble asks: What happens when we optimize away the human elements of dating? When AI does the flirting, the getting-to-know-you, and even the dating itself, what's left for us to experience? 
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| ☆ Say One More Thing | Web | 2024 |
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An email lottery system with a 1 in one million chance that your message goes through, garnering over 5 million views and 10,000+ users.
This project explores digital communication, chance, and the value we place on having our voices heard. The campaign spread through social media with viral videos explaining the concept:
Try Your Luck
New entries continue to arrive daily, with participants hoping to be the rare voice that breaks through. 
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| SuperVitamin | Web | 2024 |
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My inspirations for "SuperVitamin" were: 1) an ex who would take a bunch of supplements at the same time (like a handful of 20 pills, AT ONCE!!) and 2) a time period where I was completely enthralled with online manifestation videos.
To manifest my dream job, I spent nearly an hour each morning listening to three back-to-back videos. Patience isn't my virtue, so why not binge all these good vibes at once? That curiosity plunged me into YouTube's manifestation rabbit hole, where you can manifest anything. Forget just the dream job—how about changing your eye color, winning the lottery, or nailing a backflip? The possibilities are endless, with countless frequencies and soothing voices guiding the way.
Take Your Vitamins
Use this tool as a menu, pick out everything you want to manifest and listen to the cacophony of your every desire. 
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| Enter Here | Installation | 2024 |
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This is a little install I did for @pixelmouthnyc called "A rose for @Emily7213_lol"
It's an immersive viewing experience that dynamically switches between different real-time live streams worldwide while physically encapsulating you in the soft-sculpture. The portals transition between remote sea cameras, zoo animals, random backyards, ASMR, porn cams, MIT's cafeteria, bomb watches in Gaza, UN meetings, mukbang channels, urban city streets, game shows, stock watches, and so SO much more. It also featured a security camera watching the viewer from a location within the gallery.
ENTER HERE
This project highlights both the interconnectedness of our digital-age existence and the pervasive nature of modern surveillance. You are the observer and the observed. Thanks so much @tench.nology for getting me involved. It was such an honor and the show was fabulous ☺️❤️🙏 
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| Facebook Marketplace Mirrors | Video | 2024 |
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I was selling a mirror on @facebookmarketplace like a month ago and laughed at myself trying to take a picture of the mirror without capturing my reflection.
I went through hundreds of listings of second hand mirrors, ran the images through an image expander, and these are some of the haunted favs. Silly little thing. 
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| Engage with Me | Web | 2024 |
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I stopped posting casual selfies of myself on instagram once it started turning into a page where I shared my freelance work and personal projects.
I'm not exactly sure why. The humorous side of me likes to think it is because it is too easily accessible, and most people do not deserve my awesome selfies. This led to "Engage with Me," a series of steps you must complete before being deemed worthy enough for an old picture of me. 
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| Happy Test | Web | 2024 |
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Inspired by the dystopian smile detector Canon installed in their Chinese offices (2021), I temporarily implemented browser-based emotion tracking on my personal website.
With Google Analytics, I was able to see whether or not people were enjoying their time at tina.zone. 
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| ☆ Scan Artist | AR | 2024 |
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A NYFW show that tells a story about the current scourges of the fashion industry through marker-based augmented reality.
This project was presented at New York Fashion Week 2024, using augmented reality to highlight issues in the fashion industry. 
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| Distance From Source | Web | 2024 |
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I want the truth. Don't stray from the source. This diary entry obfuscates more the further you are away from the place it was written.
This project explores the concept of truth and proximity, using geolocation to alter the user's experience based on their physical distance from where the content was created. 
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| Ru and Ashe: an HTML Play about Love | Web | 2024 |
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WIP, two characters who are in love that speak to each other across the browser.
This is an experiment with dialogue and animation. Current fixes needed: the speech is off. I realized you cannot have text to speech for two popups going at the same time, so I tried to improvise with some inputted audio files. 
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| Worship Me: A Shareable Digital Shrine | Web | 2023 |
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After a friend with covid jokingly told me to "worship her through the screen," I thought about how I could make a shrine-like website for her.
I notoriously make websites and art projects for the people in my life, so this was a fun challenge. This is my first Node.js application! After uploading a photo, users generate a link to their custom shrines, with buttons allowing you to worship them harder and harder. This custom link is sharable with other people, so they can worship you as well. 
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| Love Meter | Web | 2023 |
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A birthday present I made for a friend going through a breakup.
Urging them to remember that the love they've put out into the universe exists inside them. 
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