Mind Wank is the pseudonym of a visual artist who uses artificial intelligence to generate imagery that is eerie, darkly comic, and often emotionally raw, working across stills and video. His work — distorted figures, uncanny domestic scenes, glitch-infused text — explores “the broken poetry of modern life and the blurred line between memory, fiction, and digital decay”.
Mind Wank came of age in the early days of AOL, dial-up modems and chat rooms filled with anonymous strangers. He joined Fellowship's Daily program in 2023 and went on to produce more than a thousand works. Among them is the satirical series BAD JPEGs, which imagines what AI-generated imagery would look like if prompted on the aesthetics of the early internet. Released in June 2024 in place of the expiring Fellowship Patron Pass, the series embraces compression artifacts and low-fidelity visuals, turning fragments of emojis and memes into crude, decaying vignettes that critique the polished, influencer-driven character of internet culture. He is also a co-creator of AI OR DIE, an AI comedy trio.
