Electric Sleep

'Electric Sleep' depicts the artist Lucian Freud asleep at a laptop. Employing an AI rendering for the initial composition, it seeks to explore the concept of digital portraiture in web3.

Freud famously sought to capture the core of his sitters, for his portraits "to be of the people, not like them." By digitally painting an AI-based portrait of such an intensely physical painter, 'Electric Sleep' serves to ask whether the human essence Freud sought can be generated through AI and expressed digitally. If not, it wonders, what form of spectral presence are we left with instead.