Investigating how media representations of the ocean enable exploitative military and environmental policies. The ocean we fear, desire, protect, and exploit is not the ocean itself. It is an image-ocean, a constructed artifact stitched together from tourism footage, climate graphics, colonial maritime paintings, sonar scans, and satellite spectra. Yet this media-ocean is so naturalized that we rarely notice its artificiality. The project asks: If Al can detect patterns across thousands of ocean images, can it expose the biases, blind spots, and aesthetic habits that shape our understanding of the sea? And can it help us encounter forms of oceanic being that exceed human comprehension altogether?

Ultimately, Ocean Anomalies investigates how Al can help us perceive the mediated oceans we have inherited and imagine stranger, more expansive oceans that might reshape our ecological imagination.