“It feels like we’re creating a digital opera” say the artists, as they oversee and direct an international team of programmers, artists, producers, musicians, designers, editors, to bring to life their interpretation of the collection’s core themes.

-FAD Magazine

Automatic processes and chance operations were utilized in the creation of the work—largely by building systems of trust with the machine and relying on it as an active collaborator. What looks like abstract moving and still paintings are GANs which are created by inputting fashion collection images into machine learning models. AR/XR filters are discoverable by rotating 3d objects. One filter transports the guest into the protagonist’s 360 darkroom, another allows one to wear the GAN lookbook iteration on their face. Live action footage rendered through the AR/XR filters created unexpected footage results, 360 CGI immersive environments allow guests to freely navigate distant worlds. 3D/2D scenes were carefully architected, sometimes mixed with live action footage. It's ambiguous whether the imagery is created by a computer, humans, or both. 

The spirit of automatic art extends to the interactive design as there are innumerable video and real-time subtitle pairings and sequences. Game theory is applied to aspects of the experience (tokens, portals, limited time in certain spaces). Subject to the machine’s subconscious—the memories unfold differently every time; you can never experience “Automatiste” the same way twice. Also, like life, there is no Back button. 

“Automatiste” was featured in BBC Click, FAD Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar UK, Electronic Beats, Twin Magazine and CADAF (Crypto and Digital Art Fair).

Exhibited at HeK Basel as part of “Who is online? Game art in the age of post-NFTism” February-May 2023.

Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are interviewed about their use of technology in Automatiste for BBC Click’s episode about digital fashion entitled ‘Digital Models and Fungi Fashion.’

In Telekom Electronic Beats Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Whitney Wei speaks to Operator. They discuss the creation of “Automatiste” as well as the nature of decentralized digital collaboration that intersects fashion, art, music, and innovative technologies.