This is my first AI animation piece I am proud and excited to make available.

For 25 years I've been an experimental computer animator and artist, I've made many films, won a Prix Ars Electronica and worked with Peter Gabriel and Tangerine Dream on music videos and concert visuals.

But early in 2021, coders managed to get a neural network called CLIP 'talking' to another neural network called VQGan. To put simply, it allows us to use text prompts as an input to guide a high quality, infinitely expressive image creation process.

It puts the artist back in the picture as a

The Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus) or simply golden oriole, is the only member of the Old World oriole family of passerine birds breeding in Northern Hemisphere temperate regions. It is a summer migrant in Europe and western Asia and spends the winter season in central and southern Africa. The male is striking in the typical oriole black and yellow plumage, but the female is a drabber green bird. Orioles are shy, and even the male is remarkably difficult to see in the dappled yellow and green leaves of the canopy.

Ecstacy by Athena Novo, August 2021, Foundation

Follow up on programmable art pieces of this series by Athena Novo -- on Async Art at https://async.art/u/athenanovo/collection.

Magic is everywhere, you just have to want to see it.

3000x4000 px.
300 dpi.

Jeff was a good guy indeed. We shared that filthy hole we called home for nearly five years. Cyberspace, the great drug of this time, had reduced his brain to a disco of drunken neurons. He was Jeff, almost a brother to me, my family. So, every time he would plunge himself again into the whirlpool, I knew I had to get out of the house and face the rainy nights to look for him in the alleys. That evening I found him after 4 hours, on the backside of the VUNG TAU. I had arrived on time.

Visualising the female embodiment of propagating beauty and transcending power. Designing to manifest the celebration and appreciation of women everyday.

We are a group of people passionate about technology and art. Our daily job is democratizing the exchange of values in emerging markets. We decide to drop this work as our first NFT piece to using the path to generate growth in the education system. So let's jump in the abyss together!

All revenue generated with this piece will be donated to institutions that encourage girls to learn code and art in underdeveloped countries like Brazil.

Hesitation by HoT

Based on public domain imagery, edited to surreal abstraction

Minted July 2021 on Foundation