SLOP, Salesforce Tower Midnight Artist Series
Curated by Jim Campbell Studios,
Throughout the month of February, the ‘Salesforce Tower Midnight Artist Series’ features SLOP, by Mel Day and Frank Ham, a human-coded, black-and-white simulation exploring the entangled tension between art and technology through shifting Rorschach-style visuals combining computational fluid dynamics and economic data.
SLOP highlights both the criticized chaos of AI output and the confusion created by human demands for certainty and strict boundaries, or immiscible divisions. The work invites viewers to contemplate the chaos and uncertainty of both AI and human systems in an uncertain, open-ended encounter beyond the squares of our current screens.
Through Day and Ham’s respective fields of art and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the two explore the reciprocity of looking and seeing simultaneously through our physical eye, mind’s eye, and the remote, technically adjacent ‘eye’—its so-called ‘digital twin’.
Working to reveal the structure of AI chaos through high-fidelity large eddy simulations, Day and Ham based SLOP’s initial waveforms driving the visual instabilities on the wealth of the top US billionaires. Redacting the applied scientific primary color hues traditionally used in diagrams and simulations, the artwork’s resulting black and white waveforms revealed the emergence of ambiguous references from climate change, rising waters, the lurching, chaotic effects of the techno capital machine to performance painting, and the Salesforce Tower as an undefinable, ‘live’ liquid architecture.
Created from first principles—math, conservation laws, human-made coding—and art thinking, Day and Ham’s SLOP is a work that invites an experience of the fluid motions’ mesmerizing instability and open-ended dynamism—and the unstable, ungraspable edges of visual intelligibility.
— Mel Day and Frank Ham | mmd.ca
What: SLOP
Who: Mel Day and Frank Ham
Where: Salesforce Tower Midnight Artist Series curated by Jim Campbell Studio
When: February from 12am-1am + February 20, 21, and 22 from sunset to 1am
PUBLIC WATCH PARTY: Saturday, February 21st, 2026, 7:30-10:30 @ Blooms Saloon (back bar area), 1318 18th St., San Francisco; No-host bar
For more information or interviews contact:
Wendy Norris, Norris Communications
(415) 307-3853
wendy@norriscommunications.biz
Acknowledgements/Credits: Justin Edwards @pseudojustin, Ri Dym @dymline , P. Phelan 🙏🏻
Curated by @jimcampbell_studio @emmastrebel @salesforce_towertop_art. Created in partnership with BX @salesforcetower @bxpbostonproperties #salesforce #tower #cfd
