Stephan Vasement is a Bangkok-based visual artist whose AI-generated work forms bichromatic scenes built around fierce animal motifs and a surrealistic brushstroke. He calls himself a second-wave AI artist, a term he uses for those who began working with tools such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
Vasement began collecting code-based generative art on various blockchains in 2021. The next year he started experimenting with AI tools alongside friends, discovering the clip-guided diffusion model Disco Diffusion in the summer of 2022. At first the group simply sold their images to each other for a symbolic fee on Objkt and Versum before the community around them began to grow. In July 2022 he launched his C Series on Objkt, after modifying Midjourney's own algorithm to produce a style he says no one else was working with at the time. By early 2023 he had produced nearly 500 works in the series. He was preparing a follow-up release on the platform Foundation that would build on the series in a new direction.
