Los Angeles-based NFT artist Ellie Pritts began using AI after receiving a diagnosis of a degenerative neurological condition.
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Pritts broke onto the NFT scene in 2021 when she tried minting a few existing video artworks — and watched them take off. “I went to the doctor, through a lot of testing, and found out I have this degenerative neurological condition,” Pritts recalled. “They had no answers or comfort. They said, ‘You’re losing these abilities, they’re not going to come back, we don’t know how much worse it’s gonna get. Sorry.’”Pritts began leaning into artificial intelligence upon receiving her diagnosis. Her show at Bitforms opens with “Relative Minor” , a trippy animation mounted alone in the entryway’s tangerine alcove.
Pritts then ran the AI’s animation through video hardware from the 1990s, resoldered to produce visually warped outputs. “That’s basically what glitching is,” she said. Still sensing the work wasn’t complete, she created its background with a modular video synthesizer, “which works really similar to a modular audio synthesizer with little cables,” Pritts said. “Same thing, but it’s video output.” She’s made probably 20 such animations so far — this exhibition collects seven.
“These are extra recursive because they’re based off [AI] paintings I did the first round,” Pritts said of the portraits. “That was an earlier version of Stable Diffusion. We’re three versions later.”
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