Zak Tustont uses art to navigate life experience, working across vector illustration, collage, and generative media. His video work layers, distorts, and breaks down material until it sits between clarity and abstraction. His practice is guided by a fascination with how systems can be stretched, unraveled, and reshaped.
Tustont was born in Canada and spent his adolescence in the United States before returning to Canada in 2012. He entered the NFT space in February 2021 through a collaboration with the artist Jeremy Torman, providing sound design for one of Torman's AI-generated works. Tustont minted his own first NFT, French x Inhale (w/ Audio), on Foundation in March 2021 after being invited to the platform by the artist Mo Tuncay. Through 2021 he studied machine learning, training custom StyleGAN models from his archive of vector art. In 2022 he returned to vector illustration through his Meta-Garbage project.
