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.
