# Artificial Images

> AI and machine learning art by Derrick Schultz. Exploring generative abstraction, computational filmmaking, StyleGAN, and experimental video through neural networks and algorithmic techniques.

- Canonical URL: https://artificial-images.com/
- Artist: Derrick Schultz
- Index of every page: https://artificial-images.com/llms.txt

## About

Artificial Images is the post-AI art practice of Derrick Schultz. Utilizing machine learning and other computational techniques, his work explores generative abstraction and computational filmmaking.

In addition to creating his own work, Derrick also teaches machine learning to artists, designers, and image makers. Artificial Images courses combine small group personal instruction with a digital community from across the world.

## Lead project

[Phantoms of Endless Day](https://artificial-images.com/project/ho-tzu-nyen-phantoms-endless-day.md) (2025): Endless generative video

## Pathways

- [Computational Films](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/computational-films.md) (11 projects): Films shaped by rules, sorting, procedural editing, and machine-guided montage.
- [Material Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/material-machines.md) (12 projects): Digital systems returned to film, paper, plotting, and handmade image-making.
- [Models Made Here](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/models-made-here.md) (22 projects): Projects built around trained, adapted, or artist-specific generative models.
- [Commissioned Systems](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/commissioned-systems.md) (10 projects): Editorial and client work where the technical method is part of the visual language.
- [Printed Intelligence](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/printed-intelligence.md) (10 projects): Machine-made images that become prints, plots, pages, and physical artifacts.
- [Valentine Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/valentine-machines.md) (6 projects): Love songs, prints, collages, and computational romance from the recurring BBVDAY series.

## Work

- [Acoustics of Light](https://artificial-images.com/project/so-will-b-now-audioreactive-16mm.md) (2026): The soundtrack does the editing.
- [B.K.S.O.M.](https://artificial-images.com/project/bksom-16mm-brooklyn-film.md) (2022—2026, ongoing): Wandering and pondering
- [Err Me Z](https://artificial-images.com/project/err-me-z.md) (2026): Undercover agent.
- [Everyday Fragments](https://artificial-images.com/project/everyday-fragments-expanded-cinema-web.md) (2026): Expanded Cinema for the web
- [Grá DJ Flyers](https://artificial-images.com/project/gra-restaurant-ai-dj-flyers.md) (2022—2026, ongoing): Animated monthly
- [Love Song Sing-Along (BBVDAY2026)](https://artificial-images.com/project/love-song-sing-along-bbvday2026-karaoke.md) (2026): Tone poems
- [Middle C](https://artificial-images.com/project/middle-c-karaoke-sorted.md) (2026): A bang average, middle of the road video
- [Space Cinema](https://artificial-images.com/project/space-cinema-endless-procedural-animation.md) (2026): Evolving screens in pitch black space.
- [11 Rudniks](https://artificial-images.com/project/11-rudniks-stop-hate-aaaj-donation.md) (2021, 2025): Rudnickhood for good
- [BBVDAY 2025½](https://artificial-images.com/project/bbvday2025-animation-film-collage.md) (2025): Another collage animation
- [Driveby](https://artificial-images.com/project/driveby-prism-video.md) (2023–2025, ongoing): Road trip film
- [Heavens](https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film.md) (2025): Looking for answers
- [Phantoms of Endless Day](https://artificial-images.com/project/ho-tzu-nyen-phantoms-endless-day.md) (2025): Endless generative video
- [Selfie Song](https://artificial-images.com/project/selfie-song-walt-whitman-illustrip.md) (2021–2025, ongoing): Walter Whitman White
- [Stop Making Sense](https://artificial-images.com/project/stop-making-sense-sorting-randomness.md) (2025, ongoing): Anything, Everything
- [•](https://artificial-images.com/project/dot-handmade-animation-ai-guidance.md) (2024): Guided by machines
- [A Film Etched in Bark](https://artificial-images.com/project/film-etched-in-bark-ektachrome.md) (2023, 2024): It’s all just noise; beautiful noise.
- [Anime](https://artificial-images.com/project/anime-manga-machine-contact-printing.md) (2024): Moving manga
- [Black Sun Electro Static](https://artificial-images.com/project/black-sun-electro-static-neural-cellular-automata.md) (2023, 2024): laserprinted into the mind’s eye
- [Chroma01](https://artificial-images.com/project/chroma01-ai-art-model-chromatography.md) (2024): Chroma’d out
- [Editation on Violence](https://artificial-images.com/project/editation-on-violence-deren-marvel.md) (2022–2024, ongoing): Meditative noise
- [Floral Zombification Via Attention Node Networks](https://artificial-images.com/project/floral-zombification-text-to-video.md) (2023, 2024): The Last of Us, the First of Them
- [NYcelium Network](https://artificial-images.com/project/nycelium-network-artist-labs.md) (2023, 2024): The trees tell a story
- [The Kiss (#bbvday2024)](https://artificial-images.com/project/the-kiss-algorithmic-filmmaking.md) (2024): True Romance
- [The Transmitter](https://artificial-images.com/project/transmitter-neuroscience-illustrations.md) (2024): Insane in the membrane
- [U Should B Free](https://artificial-images.com/project/u-should-b-free-anti-openpose-video.md) (2024): The Zion Rave
- [Cellular Reconstruction](https://artificial-images.com/project/cellular-reconstruction-16mm-experimental-film.md) (2023): The "Hologram Tupac" Film
- [The Fossil Record](https://artificial-images.com/project/the-fossil-record-looping-animations.md) (2023): An archaeological dig
- [#bbvday2022](https://artificial-images.com/project/bbvday2022-animation-film-collage.md) (2022): Audiovisual collage of love
- [Commercial Type Food Issue](https://artificial-images.com/project/commercial-type-food-issue-editorial-illustration.md) (2022): Don’t play with your food!
- [Grá Website](https://artificial-images.com/project/gra-restaurant-machine-learning-video.md) (2022): Pizza stone
- [Scream Scenes](https://artificial-images.com/project/scream-scenes-31-days-horror-videos.md) (2022): 31 Days of Experimental Horror
- [#bbvday2021](https://artificial-images.com/project/bbvday2021-stylegan-prints.md) (2021): ❤️ Flowers
- [Cash or Credit, No Crypto](https://artificial-images.com/project/cash-or-credit-no-crypto.md) (2021, ongoing): I will also accept barter
- [Linnaeus Pip](https://artificial-images.com/project/linnaeus-pip-machine-learning-eugenics.md) (2021): Fuck Linnaeus; Fuck Haeckl; Fuck Google
- [Looking 4 U](https://artificial-images.com/project/looking-4-u-openpose-video.md) (2021): Devoted to the art of moving butts
- [New York Times OnTech](https://artificial-images.com/project/new-york-times-ontech-machine-learning.md) (2021): Whether to weather app
- [New Yorker Illustration](https://artificial-images.com/project/new-yorker-photosynthesis-style-transfer.md) (2021): The power of leaves
- [Selling Surfing in Space](https://artificial-images.com/project/selling-surfing-space-ebay-nft.md) (2021): Ancient Tech NNFTs
- [Yule Log 2021](https://artificial-images.com/project/yule-log-2021-kamuter.md) (2021): Festive flickering florals
- [#bbvday2020](https://artificial-images.com/project/bbvday-stylegan-prints.md) (2020): For Valentine’s Day I bought you r0s3s.
- [HP Innovation Magazine](https://artificial-images.com/project/hp-innovation-style-transfer-next-frame-prediction.md) (2020): Artificial Intelligence is innovative.
- [New York Times Sunday Review Graphics](https://artificial-images.com/project/new-york-times-opinion-art-neuralink.md) (2020): Brain waves, or: What do our brains sea?
- [Old Masters](https://artificial-images.com/project/old-masters-experimental-film-bigbigan.md) (2020): Experimental film begets experimental film
- [You Are Here](https://artificial-images.com/project/you-are-here-machine-learning-film.md) (2020): You are nowhere.
- [99 Ways to use a Dataset](https://artificial-images.com/project/ladiescrop-machine-learning-art-experiments.md) (2019, ongoing): In the beginning, there was a handmade dataset.
- [Baffler Magazine](https://artificial-images.com/project/baffler-magazine-illustration.md) (2019): Commissioned illustrations for Kill Your T.V.
- [Extinguished](https://artificial-images.com/project/extinguished-australia-cyclegan-prints.md) (2019): A machine learns when a fire starts to burn.
- [faces2flowers](https://artificial-images.com/project/faces-to-flowers-machine-learning-portraits.md) (2019, ongoing): A selfie from Area X.
- [GAN Series B](https://artificial-images.com/project/series-b-cyclegan-prints.md) (2019): Second series of prints generated with a Generative Adversarial Network.
- [Waaaves](https://artificial-images.com/project/waaaves-style-transfer-video-art.md) (2019, ongoing): Soundwaves, sound waves.
- [GAN Series A](https://artificial-images.com/project/series-a-dcgan-machine-learning.md) (2018–2019): First series of prints generated with a Generative Adversarial Network.
- [Anthropocene](https://artificial-images.com/project/anthropocene-electric-objects-animations.md) (2016): Scenes from the
- [eHilnot Bgiln](https://artificial-images.com/project/e-hilnot-bgiln-pixelsort-music-video.md) (2015): You used to...

## Elsewhere

- [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/bustbright)
- [Store](https://bustbright.com)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZuPdmZ380SFUMKHVsv_AA)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/dvsmethid/)
- [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/dvsch/)
- [Github](https://github.com/dvschultz)
- [Newsletter](https://mailchi.mp/a28d64200633/fall-2020-courses)
- [Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/ml-images/shared_invite/zt-9mxoe7va-eBZ9xzAWpx8VRL~Km_PzUQ)
- [Email](mailto:dvsmethid@gmail.com)

## Classes

### Training Image & Video LoRAs

Train models on your own work. Over five live sessions we'll build and caption datasets, train image LoRAs and image edit models, then move to motion with video LoRAs, with an AI agent running the training on rented GPUs. No coding required. GPU rental is paid separately, roughly $100 for the course.

- Dates: November 8–December 13 (no class November 29)
- Time: 2–4pm ET, Weekly on Sundays
- Location: Live Class on Zoom
- Cost: $250
- Sign up: https://www.bustbright.com/product/training-image-video-loras-sundays-at-2pm-et-starts-november-8-/OHZY62Q3QZUFGEAKJT7SJPZQ

## Resources

### ML Basics

- [What is Generative AI?](https://youtu.be/e_wuTo5lwMY) (Video)
- [How Do Diffusion Models Work?](https://youtu.be/BWUApLkLH-8) (Video)
- [How Do LLMs Work?](https://youtu.be/AUSD3xUnt7g) (Video)

### Tutorials

- [Generate Infinite Length Video with Framepack](https://youtu.be/YnMbuaLG9tc) (Video)
- [Midjourney Character References](https://youtu.be/dhtCXAo86io) (Video)
- [Shot Detection with PySceneDetect](https://youtu.be/V8MbBEBQrNs) (Video)

### Advanced

- [Train a Wan2.2 Video LoRA in Google Colab](https://youtu.be/wZW1zR0cg9s) (Video)
- [Sorting Images with LPIPS and DreamSim](https://youtu.be/3mk_-OY-WOM) (Video)
- [Use Vast.ai for ML Training](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXN20v3dYb) (Video)

### Complete Classes

- [Stop Motion AI Animation](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuCzxqIpJs_Gzgv8m6cwvNnUQ6dSXK5b) (Playlist)
- [Intro to ComfyUI](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuCzxqIpJs8e8fET1QP96tWngqlsoIZu) (Playlist)
- [Algorithmic Filmmaking](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuCzxqIpJs_8IpPl1bkKNFAe98ejDHsQ) (Playlist)

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