skomra is a crypto artist who works with AI textures and diffusion models to explore digital subjectivity and the instability of memory. Raised in the Rust Belt, she holds academic backgrounds in both poetry and computer science, a dual sensibility she brings to glitch aesthetics and pixel-level distortion. She joined SuperRare in April 2021 and releases her work as CC0, believing images and ideas circulate better unencumbered by rights.
Her practice combines glitch aesthetics, procedural interference and pixel-level distortion to explore fragmented identity, emotional resonance and the failure of digital and human recall, drawing on influences that include electronica, graffiti, postmodern poetry and figurative painting. She builds her diffusion works by training textual-inversion models on sets of images at the command line, then prompting with Automatic1111, and edits images in Krita on a Linux-based setup. She has described three recurring threads in her work: hand-drawn AI portraits of people at their computers, titled with questions pulled from search histories; a project rendering trees with AI and early computer-graphics textures; and a glitch project that pushes AI models, which tend toward stability, into artistic instability.
