okay computer, teach me pottery (2023), is an installation of text-based work and hand-built, raw clay vessels. The pages of Parnell’s Artificial Intelligence (A.I) generated instructional pottery zine, okay computer, teach me pottery, are enlarged and displayed on the walls. The zine records the exchange between the artist and ChatGPT, an AI text generator, where ChatGPT was asked “How do I make a vessel out of clay?”. The prompts were illustrated by DALL·E 2, an A.I. image generator, and the results compiled into a rambling, surrealist set of text and images. The artist then followed the instructions to create clay vessels. And while the vessels are “correct”, they are not “functional”, as the ChatGPT output did not include instructions for them to be fired