3 Early AI Artists: 0009, Lilyillo, and Nikita Panin
Quotes, AI Arts, & Links for Your Extra Inspiration
Hey there, art lovers! 👋 Ready to explore some fresh faces in the AI art scene?
Today, we’re taking you on a cozy stroll through the creative worlds of0009, Lilyillo, and Nikita Panin — three incredible artists who are making waves with their AI-powered masterpieces.
In this article, you’ll find:
- Inspiring introductions to our featured artists
- Memorable quotes that capture their creative journeys
- Links to connect with each artist
- A gallery of their eye-catching AI artworks
Whether you’re new to AI or already a seasoned pro, there’s something here for you to enjoy. So, grab a cup of coffee and settle in — this highlight is sure to add a spark to your day! ☕️🎨✨
1. LILYILLO
Lilyillo is an artist based in Canberra, Australia. Lilyillo completed a Master’s of Fine Art majoring in drawing, Masters of Curatorial Studies and a Bachelor of Art History & Theory from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and undertook artist residencies in Paris and Scotland. Lilyillo has exhibited work extensively Internationally, has worked for the National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia and was a director of Firstdraft Gallery Sydney. Lilyillo works across traditional and digital AI mediums, exploring concepts of identity & representation, nostalgia and memory. Lilyillo´s work can be collected on Objkt, Opensea, and on Cardano. She is a mum of two beautiful children and runs a design studio full time. Lilyillo´s submission to the second AI Art Contest by Claire Silver is called “Inlayed”.
Website of the artist — https://www.lilyillo.com/
Lilyillo´s quotes:
“I was inspired by AI and that kind of freedom to explore without any kind of a fear, backlash and making mistakes. These tools are so young. We are here in such an infant space and we all have to embrace them as a process of play. This is really liberating and quite scary.”
“The anomalies you get in AI — really beautiful fingers different little artefacts we see that AI outputs for us — it is not always going to be like this. This is a moment in time that these artefacts will be here. AI is going to be better and those artefacts will go, and I am very sad about that.”
“Post Photography for me is a very interesting thing because you see this creation of photos of people who have not necessarily ever existed but they are birthed through AI. There is something very beautiful about that process. Susan Sontag, a photo theorist writes: “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” And I think that the photo theory is a really interesting thing because photos are this “capturing of a moment in time” and the moment the traditional photo is taken, that moment in time, has passed. So it is essentially this moment when the subject is dead. Photography as we understand it is related to death in a sense of the death of that time or moment. The AI on the other hand creates and births these subjects. It is poetic.”
2. 0009
Chris Maestas, A.K.A. 0009, is a Senior Automotive Designer/Illustrator based in LA, USA. 0009 graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a Bachelor of Science in Automotive Design/Industrial Design. Chris’s early work is centered around acrylic, oil-based enamel, spray paint, and digital pixel-pushing. Since 2022, 0009 has been deep-diving into AI-assisted exploration, inspired in subcultures, its individuality and its urge to stand out. 0009 is the author of DEFACED series, abstract representations of Graffiti, its vocabulary and set of aesthetics, introduced in the “human spaces”. He is an author of “A-I graffiti ‘’ brought from the streets to the white wall galleries. 0009´s work can be collected on Objkt, Foundation, and SuperRare. 0009 recently celebrated the successful sold-out solo exhibition of 12 pieces on Tezos (Objkt.com) at Superchief Gallery NFT, NY, USA MUSEUM SURVEY OF GRAFFITI. Between November 3 and 12, 2022 Superchief Gallery NFT is showcasing for the second time 0009´s work in the solo show in La Biennale Di Venezia. This time the arts are minted on Ethereum (Foundation).
Website of the artist - https://0-0-0-9.com/
0009´s quotes:
“I was feeling burnt out being in the automotive creative industry for the last 10+ years and I feel like I am a fresh graduate out of University again. I am green and ready to learn as much as I can. I feel like I have a team of the best artists and illustrators working for me that never get tired. It is an amazing collaborative tool that I am deeply in love with. I am going full speed at it.”
“When I do MidJourney it is a mix of a lot of different images that I photo-merge in Photoshop to create the composition I am looking for.”
3. NIKITA PANIN
Nikita Panin is an AI artist, a global nomad, currently based in Ubud, Indonesia. He graduated from St. Petersburg Art & Design Academy specializing in ceramics. Upon graduation his work centered around oil painting until 2019 when AI experimentation entered his artistic life. Nikita is no new to digital art. He started his digital web artwork at the age of 12 and celebrated his first digital art show when Nikita was 15 years old. Today Nikita portfolio counts with dozens of exhibitions around the world including Taiwan, Belgium, Argentina, Germany, and USA. Having amassed considerable experience over the last few years, his main research now focuses on the exploration of creative possibilities within AI. Nikita´s work can be collected on Objkt, Foundation, KnownOrigin and on SuperRare.
Website of the artist — https://itjust.is
Nikita Panin´s quotes:
“Since I was an oil painting, I was trying to make sketches for my paintings using AI and then transfering them. But I felt I was some kind of biological printer to it and dedided not to do it anymore. Once I had a nice experimentation: I have printed an AI generated image on canvas and then painted in over but completely differently. That way it was a kind of nice collaboration. When I did not have the place to paint, AI became a big helper for me to stay creative every day while using my laptop. Right now I develop my own tools, like a Photoshop plugin for Stable Difussion. I hope soon I will announce it.”
“First I was very fascinated by the imperfections and glitches of AI. For me they felt like the personal style and essence of AI, its nature. Especially back in the days it was very beautiful, now there is not so much of it. I think in future we will see the interactive movies in the style of any director. We will be able to create art using our thoughts, maybe even Metaverses, we will see many things that we cannot think about now and which will surprise us very much.”
“I cannot choose my favorite work. They are all like my children.”
“In my Genesis on SuperRare called “neo genesis” I explore a classic theme fraught with many interpretations, both mythological and metaphysical — Virgin Mary and a Child. In this artwork I used ceramics and porcelain artistic aesthetics, personal laws of composition arrangement and favorite symbolic elements I’ve developed and adapted over years. And it all combined with SD interpolation technique + a bit of audioreactive procedural animation. Music is generated with an AI I’ve trained on my all time favorite music. With the evolvement and development of AI tools there is a lot more control over composition and everything than before, so it becomes truly AI collaborative.”
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