Ümüt Yildiz: About

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Ümüt Yildiz is an artist who began exploring artificial intelligence in 2018. He makes visual works that catalyze the world of the irrational and the unconscious. His work is characterized by themes of humanism and controversy. He has lectured in Creative Coding in Design at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and lives in Cologne and Berlin.

Yildiz applies AI to the visual material of original production. The approach introduces the concept of “memory” of the machine, which does not preserve any experience paradigms or culture inherent in human nature.

Free Speech Liar shows a masked rider labeled "LIAR" who waves a distorted "FREE SPEECH" flag while passing through fire on a white horse. Yildiz made it as a response to the political moment, in which he says "free speech" has become a performance. He first generated training images in ComfyUI with custom-trained models. Those images were then used to fine-tune a custom instance of Krea's K1 model, with which Yildiz developed the final image. Yildiz says he does not see AI as a neutral medium and aims to make images that “feel real but make you uneasy”. The work appears in the open-call catalogue of the second issue of The AI Art Magazine.

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Ümüt Yildiz | fellowship.xyzDaily2026

Ümüt YildizThe AI Art Magazine

The AI Art Magazine, No. 2—CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE: narratives under the machineThe AI Art Magazine

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