Derrick Schultz

Post-AI Artist

2026

About Me

  • Graphic Designer
  • Artist
  • Filmmaker
  • Creative Technologist
Collage of generative art, geometric patterns, and wireframe graphics

For over a decade I’ve been exploring AI’s impact on my own practice and culture at large.


2015

Style Transfer Typography

Style transfer letterform in black and white patternStyle transfer letterform in orange and yellowStyle transfer letterform in purpleStyle transfer letterform in black and white geometric pattern

2019

faces2flowers

CycleGAN model translating human portraits into floral composites.

face made of purple flowersface made of flowersperson's face replaced with red, green, and yellow floral pattern

Editorial, 2019–2022

Commissioned Illustration

New York Times · New York Times · New Yorker

Editorial

Commercial Type Food Issue

Grid of images that make up a woman's face with glasses

foodissue.commercialtype.com

2021–2025

Selfie Song

A millennial’s interpretation of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Multiple versions across evolving AI techniques.

2025

Phantoms of Endless Day

Lead Creative Technologist for Ho Tzu Nyen’s four-channel museum installation at LUMA Arles. Algorithmic editing, custom AI models, and 10+ hours of generated footage.

Post-AI Artist

90% of my work is about AI,
even when I don’t use AI

2023

Cellular Reconstruction

Custom software written to laserprint the lost cyan layer back onto found 16mm footage. Explores the harms science can create trying to solve pre-existing problems.

2023–2024

Floral Zombification

Generative ML models take control of archival films to further their own infectious spread. Attention node networks applied to found footage.

I often use non-generative AI to edit my films

2024

9-minute film from hand-created 16mm elements. Edited and sequenced entirely using machine learning models. Sound design by Kamuter.

I am cursed to see everything as a dataset

2022

Scream Scenes

31 experimental horror films in 31 days. Each film uses a different algorithmic filmmaking technique.

Scream Scenes — 31 experimental horror films listed by day, a new experiment every day in October

2026

Middle C

A decomposed film of karaoke clips, all singing C4 according to the CREPE pitch estimation model. 12 minutes.

Practice

Artist-built Software

Colab Notebooks

Google Colab notebook interface showing ITP Algo Film tutorial

Phantoms Process

Used a number of LLM processes to generate sequences and algorithms.

Phantoms of Endless Day LLM process screenshot

Phantoms Process

These were one off LLM-to-code processes, mostly helping manage the project, rather than create it.

Phantoms of Endless Day LLM project management screenshot

Scene Ripper

Custom desktop application for algorithmic filmmaking. Scene detection, AI-driven sequencing, and remix tools—built entirely with Claude Code.

Scene Ripper application interface showing algorithmic filmmaking tools

Titles

  • Custom Artist Models
  • Generative Images and Videos
  • Artist Attribution

titles.xyz

Titles platform showing AI-generated cat images in various artistic styles

Custom Models on Titles

AI-generated still life with dahlias and chrysanthemums over pastel color-blocked squaresSurreal AI-generated painting of vintage television surrounded by dreamlike flowersAI-generated watercolor jellyfish in pastel blues and pinks

titles.xyz — Selfie Song models

Rhizome artist work — SamRhizome artist work — AlixRhizome artist work — Maya
Rhizome artist work — ArratiRhizome artist work — Louis

Rhizome × Titles

Teaching

Whatever Generative AI is Doing Now

NYU ITP · Since 2021

Every year is a completely different course because the tools change so fast.

Whatever Generative AI is Doing Now

2021GANs and custom datasets
2022: GANs and custom datasets (improved!)
2023: Diffusion Models
2024: Dadaist Filmmaking (non-generative AI tools)
2025: ComfyUI: Node based generative tools
2026: Claude Code for creative tech

MY APPROACH

It’s ok if you hate AI, but you should know how it works.

If you can’t properly critique it, your opinion won’t matter.

How can these new tools work in your practice?

Thanks!