My local academy Sint-Niklaas (Belgium) is having its ‘open doors day’ this weekend. People can freely visit all the class rooms and get to know the various disciplines and look at the created art by the students.

My traditional AI based art works are on display as well. You can find them in the class room and in the hallway.

Feel free to drop by and explore the academy.

More info at the academy website (dutch).

I am participating in the exposition ‘PARADE’ at the art academy in my home town Sint-Niklaas (Belgium).

I am displaying some of my new “tradqan” oil paintings from my ‘March 2 Infinity’ art series. The art series examines the impact of technology on humankind and the quest for Transhumanism. The works themselves are created using a process of feeding my own traditional oil paintings into an AI computer model which then generates new images. Those new images are then used as a source for creating a new traditional oil painting. And then the process restarts …

Students will also work in the exposition area during normal class hours so feel free to drop by and say hello.

More info regarding the exposition at the academy website (dutch).

The March 2 Infinity art series has been extended with ‘GAN’ based digital artworks and made available as NFT on HEN.

This art series examines the impact of technology on humankind and the quest for Transhumanism.

I envision that in a not so far future the earth has undergone dramatic environmental changes. Within those strange landscapes, leftover human groups wander around in search of huge black obelisks which are told by their prophets to hold the long forgotten and forbidden knowledge of Transhumanism. With this knowledge humans can become gods and reach for the stars and leave the destroyed Earth. Just like their lucky ancestors once did.

The traditional landscape artworks are executed in oils and charcoal and use a fluid, expressive style.

The subject matter & impact of technology is ideal as a concept to experiment with ‘Generative Adversarial Network’ (GAN for short) machine learning. Basically a deep learning network of computers uses my artworks to train itself to generate new art combining my art and public available internet images.

The results are further digitally reworked and fitted into the theme of the art series.

The art works are now available as single edition NFT’s on the clean Tezos blockchain platform. You can collect them via my M2I Art account.

I hope you enjoy the new creative possibilities and will join me with the march 2 Infinity.