AInigma is a self-taught artist based in Montreal, Canada, who makes images with AI text-to-image tools such as VQGAN+CLIP, Disco Diffusion and Midjourney. He discovered AI art in 2021 while working in the IT field. He turned to it after years of searching for a way to express a visual imagination shaped by his father's love of science fiction films and his own background in drama and improv.
A later body of work turns everyday idiomatic expressions into images, surfacing the pictures hidden inside phrases people take for granted. Two early pieces from that body of work, Break a leg and Raining cats and dogs, were shown in the “AI Surrealism” exhibition at The Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center in New York. He also contributed to Moment, a collection of 60 one-of-a-kind AI artworks on Foundation made with Superchief Gallery NFT as part of the #AISurrealism collection and curated by Anna Dart and Roger Haus of Exquisite Workers. AInigma is part of the Strange History collective led by Historic-Crypto, and contributed to its “Grande Armée” showcase of Napoleonic-themed artworks on Joyn. He minted pieces from his idiom series through Montage, an open call by Sloika.xyz on SuperRare, and released Everyday Life of a Degen, a blind mint collection on Foundation about cult-like behaviour in everyday scenarios. His RAW Stable Diffusion series on Objkt consists of one-of-a-kind pieces made with Stable Diffusion.
