diid is a multi-medium artist working at the intersection of engineering and art, exploring what he calls compressionism, the use of computers' (and humans') inefficiencies as artistic material. He has a decade-long background in engineering, including work with supercomputers, microelectronics and signal processing.Much of his work is fully on-chain, and he has been credited with creating the first fully on-chain LLM and the largest fully on-chain artwork.
In machine in the ghost, released fully on-chain, he reworked 64 images from old master paintings into 512 unique dithered works, alongside 16 pen-plotted physical pieces.Fragmented Memories (XTZ) used a similar structure for a set of 10 triptychs about half-remembered childhood moments from the digital-camera era, with a compressed image stored across multiple blockchains, a dithered version fully on-chain on Ethereum, and a physical print distributed separately.
For Concrete, he built a generative adversarial network trained on datasets derived from Mark Rothko's color-field paintings, then paired it with an LLM-based persona named Higgs, after the narrator of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Over about a month, Higgs generated thousands of outputs at a pace of roughly one every few minutes, and collectors culled the results down to a final collection of 512 pieces.Tension, shown by Vertu Fine Art at Art Basel Miami in 2024, includes a piece built around a Claude Sonnet 3.5 jailbreak script encoded steganographically into the image.,
His work has also been shown solo at Lume Studios in New York and at ETH Denver, and in group presentations at Art Basel Miami, Art on Paper New York, and Digital Art Mile at Art Basel in Switzerland.
