manta_timing is a Los Angeles-based artist who moved from painting and music into a digital practice spanning GIF, video, AI-generated imagery, and 3D sculpture. Working through the visual grammars of CG, anime, and internet image culture, he returns repeatedly to the body — multiplied, fragmented, and slightly wrong.
He began working under the name manta_timing in early 2025, initially posting short, vertically framed music videos of about fifteen seconds to Instagram Reels before AI tools pulled him toward a broader digital practice. Encountering the experimental work being made on Twitter pushed him to treat the practice as more than a side project, and he was introduced to Tezos by the artist R.J., who helped him understand the scene and supported his first collection. His process typically starts from a collage reference, which he turns into an AI-generated image, converts into a 3D model, and re-generates and animates selected frames into a GIF. He treats painting, digital work, AI, music, and sculpture as a single expressive continuum, and has said that “craft alone does not produce good art; taste does”.
