makeitrad is a Los Angeles based designer and pixel manipulator whose work explores the organic beauty of nature within a world shaped by technology. He works primarily with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while also embracing randomness and noise to shape his final forms. He came to art from a career in commercial design, discovering AI art through other artists on Twitter before posting a VQGAN animation on Hicetnunc.
Early guidance from the artists TormanJeremy and unltd_dream_co helped steer him in the right direction, both ethically and technically. His process often layers multiple AI tools, generating thousands of images in a text-to-image model, training a custom model on the results, and feeding that back into StyleGAN for further interpolation. He taught for many years at CalArts, and draws inspiration from students and colleagues in the motion-graphics and design world.