An anonymous account has been posting a new AI sci-fi world almost every day since 2023 — no name, no face, just the films and the tools he credits under each one.
cursejourney makes AI horror styled to look like found photographs — sepia, grainy, wrong in the way the genre can use. Built in Phoenix since 2023, with a "photos i found in the basement" series and an AIGA Arizona nod for the piece that broke out.
Mr. Relative has been making AI art about human collective behavior since late 2021, under one stated premise: AI was trained on everything we've made, so it's the right tool for looking at us. This summer he put "This is Humanity" in a physical gallery.
Manuela Klauser makes "Soft Goth Surrealism" with AI — dark, gothic figures with a pop-whimsy undercurrent that's shown up at the Saatchi Gallery and across international AI art exhibitions. Here's how she actually does it.
Julian van Dieken is a photographer and educator who started an AI account just to learn something new — and ended up with his image hanging in the Mauritshuis in place of Vermeer. His actual process is worth knowing about.
Almost nobody enjoys self-promotion, so I tried to automate mine — a whole funnel, built in one session. A few days later I found out it had been throwing every lead away. Here's the build, and why you can't fully trust the machine that does the part you hate.
