MEDIAMANIPULATION — art, code & design

Craig "Pat" McSpadden — St. Louis. Transmitting since 1998. Multidisciplinary maker working across generative art, agentic AI systems, and design.

Selected work

• The Rising — grindhouse short film: LoRA-consistent AI character, agent-assisted shot generation, automated assembly.
• Grindhouse — 1970s film-print damage node for ComfyUI, with its own produced 30-second promo.
• Cutroom / Greenlight — an AI film studio platform: WYSIWYG editor with embedded AI copilot, script to finished export.
• Optimizer University — twelve interactive DSPy prompt-optimization notebooks with real before/after results.
• ASL Classifier — EfficientNet-B0 fingerspelling recognition, real-world generalization fix, Unreal Engine synthetic-data pipeline.
• Context Bridge — VS Code extension streaming developer intent into AI agent sessions.
• Nexus Tarot — multi-agent tarot readings on DSPy reasoning components; CLI, API, and web UI.

github.com/mediamanipulation