How the first Mixmag cover animated by AI technology was made – Mixmag

Where did you find inspiration for the pieces made for Mixmag?

Its really an exploration of beauty more than anything. In this particular context there is a combination of objects, textures and shapes that I see in the world that I like. Ill notice how the light falls on a particular texture or material and I will essentially command, talk, or even ask the AI nicely to collate all this stuff together. Sometimes you get interesting results, but a lot of the skill in the process is learning how to talk to this oblique code and getting the results that you want out of it. In terms of the actual images having meanings, I think that the images are more like aesthetic figuration. But the process itself is quite interesting as its another conversational collaboration, not only with the coders who are building the code, but also the model, which is all the images of how they are training the code on a machine learning process. Theres quite a lot of nice meaning behind it, as its me making these things sitting down at the computer, but in essence collaborating with potentially 1000s of people as part of the process, which I love.

There are ways to make it do quite specific things by giving it an existing image, and you can do all kinds of sculpting to guide it, but I like the process where I use a specific combination of words which throw a tonne of imagery. Youll come up with prompts and see if the AI can do much with them, and if it cant do much with those words you think of others which seem to open up whole worlds. And thats my thing. I somehow found a way to talk to it which seems to be a little different to how other people are talking to it. Its just conjuring up all this really beautiful imagery. Its amazing to start putting it out there and get in touch with old friends like Teneil and make new friends with this aesthetic world gaining a sense of community and collaboration.

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How do you know HAAi and how did you work with her to execute the vision?

Weve been friends for a long time. I probably met her before her sort of ascendancy. But everyone I know, knows HAAi. And everyones just super stoked for everything thats been happening with her and to see her career take off. I was very honoured and happy to get asked to get on board and work with her, and the process was super easy which is exactly what you want. She had no complaints and she just loved everything that came forward.

Ive done a lot of freelance music work over the year and often its quite an arduous process, but with Mixmag it was a very smooth. I was just able to do my thing which is very nice and very satisfying.

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How the first Mixmag cover animated by AI technology was made - Mixmag