The recent rapid rise of artificial intelligence represents a watershed moment in the evolution of automated computing technology and its effects on industry and society, including our notions of contemporary art. My artistic research explores some of these dilemmas within contemporary art using three significant themes: memory, loss, and nostalgia. Through the media art installation Phalanx, I merge AI-assisted imagery with vintage slide projection, with nearly 600 AI-assisted slide images cycling to the viewer, sampled from the source images of my father’s Kodachrome collection from the mid to late 1960s. I examine personal history as a stand-in element reflected against different geographic contexts authored through the generative AI program Midjourney. With dataveillance wrapped within the ethos of a vast dataset as a product of deep learning through generative AI image making, I loosely borrow ‘chance aesthetics’ to explore how Midjourney affects my creative process and consider its potential as an artistic tool. The project’s origin stemmed from the fact that my elderly parents and the last remaining relatives will soon be gone, where it perhaps serves as a tribute through a creative therapeutic nostalgic process. It is an experiment that invites viewers to possibly engage with notions of memory, loss, and nostalgia resulting from massive global datasets tapped through avenues of our personal histories that are re-imagined around the globe.