ClownVamp (American) is a conceptual artist based in New York City who combines AI-generated imagery with narrative writing to create interactive, alt-history story worlds. He works anonymously and began as a collector before creating AI art of his own, using storytelling to examine queerness and invented history.
ClownVamp entered Web3 as a collector, buying and trading early Bitcoin and NBA Top Shot before turning to NFT art on Tezos. There he encountered artists experimenting with early latent-diffusion tools and, after joining the Midjourney beta, began making his own AI-generated images. His pseudonym comes from a CryptoPunk with both clown and vampire traits, which he briefly used as a profile picture before selling it to fund his early collecting. His first series, The Truth (2022), is a non-chronological alt-history science-fiction narrative in which an Impressionist painter records scenes from an alien invasion, each image paired with a diary entry. He followed it with Detective Jack (2022), an interactive murder-mystery on Tezos in which collectors keep or burn weekly drops to steer a branching storyline toward one of several endings. A prequel, Detective Jack: The Cold Case (2023), released through BrainDrops on Ethereum and reconstructed an unsolved case from Detective Jack's past as a case file that collectors could piece together.
