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Andrew Michael Sloane (Curator, SLOANEHOME) is a filmic Production Designer whose career was forged inside the machinery of studio comedy during the rise of prestige streaming, while his deeper authorship was shaped elsewhere: in the villages, lake towns, rose gardens, and fading civic landscapes of Upstate New York. Though he spent more than a decade helping define the visual worlds of some of television’s most successful comedies, his private work has always drawn from another register entirely: historic houses, abandoned Main Streets, spiritualist history, municipal landscapes, old movie palaces, and the ceremonial memory of small-town America. That tension between commerce and authorship remains central to his practice. Hollywood taught him scale, discipline, and spectacle; Arcadia gave him atmosphere, memory, and the visual language that continues to shape the work beneath his own name.

Over the last decade, Sloane has contributed to some of the defining series of the modern television era, including Succession, Insecure, Silicon Valley, and Rap Sh!t. Working across soundstages, backlots, practical locations, and digitally integrated environments, he became known for creating spaces that balanced visual wit with architectural precision, helping studios expand comedy into something increasingly cinematic, emotionally textured, and culturally defining.

His work repeatedly placed him at the threshold between entertainment and emerging technology. While working within the Art Department on Silicon Valley, he helped coordinate an early placement of AI-generated artwork in mainstream narrative television through the integration of AICAN, years before artificial intelligence became a dominant cultural force. Around the same period, he also helped introduce robotics from Boston Dynamics into prestige television, reflecting an early recognition that synthetic imagery, automation, and machine intelligence would become central to visual culture.

Today, Sloane’s practice extends beyond production design into a larger body of work spanning interiors, objects, archives, writing, and cinema. Through SLOANEHOME, Studio Sfumato, and The Arcadian.org he is building a network of artisans, painters, carpenters, cinematographers, historians, composers, and designers working in resistance to the flattening effects of algorithmic culture. His work argues for a return to atmosphere, authorship, and place: the belief that environments still shape identity, that memory can be designed, and that art remains one of the few ways meaning can survive beyond commerce.