Her vision carries into the twentynine gallery exhibition as well, where the magazine’s content transforms into immersive installations. The wall displays collaborative fabric works, while custom plush dolls—stitched from deadstock and AI-printed fabrics—bring zine characters into three-dimensional form. There’s also a performance piece: a deliberately awkward, silent influencer meet-and-greet with Maya, complete with odd props like a jiggling cake of Jello and pastel matcha drinks. “We are just being observed, while strangers get to execute images of us on AI,” Lalonde says. “It is the idea of control.”
For Lalonde, the tension between control and surrender is where the work comes alive. She embraces AI’s glitches and imperfections as much as its capabilities. “It’s not something to be scared of, it’s something to use, and learn how to control when it comes to your own practice,” she says. The Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition, imagined with Intel, also became a natural part of her process—not as a flashy gadget, but as a flexible, hands-on workspace that let her sketch, rotate, and manipulate her imagery the same way she might handle a physical object in her studio. The device gave her the fluidity to work intuitively, feeding her ideas back into the project as quickly as they came.
