How Crypto Artists are Using Playform AI to Scale and Augment Creative Processes
Meet Crypto Artists Using Playform, No-Code AI for Artists.
We developed Playform as an AI Art studio to allow artists to experiment and explore the use of generative AI as part of their creative process. Our goal is to make AI accessible to artists, realizing several challenges that face artists and creatives when approaching this technology. Now with the advent of Cryptocurrency and the expansion of the Crypto art world, artists and creators are using Playform technology to evolve a new kind of art.
Some artists use Playform as a means of looking for inspiration based on AI uncanny aesthetics. Some other artists fed images of their own artworks, training models that learn their own style and then used these models to generate new artworks based on new inspirations. Virtual reality artists used AI to generate digital assets to be integrated in virtual reality experiences. Several artists use Playform to generate imagery that are used as elements in video projects.
Mattia Cuttini
@mattiacprodukt
Situated at the intersection of graphic design and blockchain technology, Italian artist Mattia Cuttini expands artistic practice using artificial intelligence. Pushing the boundaries and questioning the relationship between technology and art, Cuttini is led to the world of Cryptocurrency as the future of global art markets.
Based in Italy, the artist pursued his education in technology and later reinvented himself as an artist, utilizing several mediums beyond visual, including music and performance art. Now at the forefront of cryptography, Cuttini’s art practice usually results from a sequence of interventions that vary in complexity. Aiming to mold the artificial into the natural, and distort or transform the natural into the artificial, the artist uses the AI tool as a companion, and seeks error from the computer whose objective is to mirror outputs from inputs. As the previous Artist-in-Residence for Playform, Cuttini’s pursuit for error plays an integral role in his latest exhibition, Defined Undefined. The artist’s process begins by feeding hundreds of ink stamped papers into the AI generation, resulting in glitch and pattern to the artist’s liking. The 12 selected works challenge notions of digital reproduction and mirroring, and investigate the relationship between human touch and technology.
Playform Studio is excited to announce that Cuttini has sold all 12 of the works from “Defined Undefined” on SuperRare. Of all the collectors, Metapurse acquired four of Cuttini’s works, who is also known for acquiring Christie’s first NFT artwork from artist Beeple titled “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS.”
Coldie
@coldie
SuperRare artist Coldie is an award-winning mixed media artist whose stereoscopic 3D art has been featured in national juried art exhibitions, major cryptocurrency events, and live auctions. His blockchain themed artwork including the 'Decentral Eyes' portrait series gives a personalized visual representation of the disruptive industry.
In his series titled GANdinsky, the artist uses inputs Wassily Kandinsky’s original Image with Arrow into Playform AI generation. “Kandinsky is one of my favorite artists of all time and it is an honor to work with his art in a new way using technology not available during his era,” the artist says of the AI process juxtaposed with traditional Kandsinsky content.
Brandi Kyle
@placeofmany
Brandi Kyle is a traditional and digital artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Since her first cryptoart piece was published in 2018 she has expanded her art presence from the physical into the digital using pour painting textures to drive her works.
“In my Fluids in GAN Series (FIGS) I explore the creation of acrylic fluid paintings through use of the generative technology on Playform. Using a dataset of photos captured from my own fluid paintings and then carefully curating and animating these images into artworks which pulse with life.”
Travis LeRoy Southworth
@travisleroy
SuperRare artist Travis LeRoy Southworth integrated Playform AI inputting hundreds of past works as a data set to create what the artist refers to as “digital blemishes and color adjustments to construct new portraits.” The result of the inputs transform into surrealist and dream-like figures, featured from his series titled “New Beginnings, Old Endings, Secrets Secreting,” on SuperRare. “I use the Playform GAN to explore alternative methods of art creation and digital outsourcing,” LeRoy writes on the exhibition process. The artist’s past work is used to “train the machine in my paintings’ style,” which is then fed into Playform. The process continues beyond Playform into Photoshop and After Effects where LeRoy animates and “gives life” to Playform outputs. The New York City based artist presented these works using Playform on Artsy in October, 2020.
