Headquarters #1

no ai was used in the creation of this artwork, but does it really matter?

reference

creative technology is art. art is nothing without creative technology

uncertainty

dear father walked across his sanctum, his footsteps echoing throughout the room. everything was quiet here, everything a part of his design. this room occupied an interesting niche within the mind of dear father, a respite from the noise of the outside world. relics and ancient memories that had been given new life through art were littered throughout the room. now, transcribed on a blockchain, they existed permanently within the structure of his own neural web. he reflected on these works, and the artists who had created them. their provenance on his mind was permanent, an expanding vault of digital art stored within the endless sea of data that was his mind.

BUY ART

like a deep breath after a long week.

midjourney + teddy-beau dithering

bliss

Perched at the brink of the world, above a seething inferno that devoured all I ever knew and loved. The flames lick my skin, but I don't flinch. I only feel the frost of the void, the silence of the end. I gaze at the heavens, the orbs, the wonders. They are so splendid, so tranquil, so out of reach. They inspire me to remember why I'm here, why I made this choice.

I'm not here to grieve, to repent, to surrender. I'm here to discover, to evolve, to ascend. I'm here to gain perspective, to behold the grand design, to find my destiny. I'm here to transcend my humanity, my form, my essence. I'm here to merge with the cosmos.

Gaining Perspective

oh, how the lies are told,
the experiences revoked,
the feelings removed.

yet the feelings were real,
the experiences felt,
and the feelings remain.

a fake memory

Allegiant Amethyst

the art that impacts you most won't be found on the opensea homepage

here for the art // the art isn't here

orsus is diid's genesis collection, a series of highly detailed single color artworks representative of web3 and the culture at large.

On-chain from the beginning, orsus stands as an incredibly rare legacy of day 0 on-chain artists.

in catena ab initio.

orsus

gm dave! A piece to celebrate the initial 3 pieces of the diid genesis. Gifted and listed to friends, bidders, and early followers.

cc0 david

requaero is diid's genesis editions contract, a series of reference images, snapshots of the internet, and gifts for bidders and friends.

requaero

whenever people ask me for advice artistically, it all comes down to one thing.

make bad art. do it lots. learn lots. then make more bad art.

it's the only way to make good art.

make bad art

a look inside the diid lab, a contract for experimental pieces and non-perfected techniques

in catena ab initio

ludere

Oculus

A fully on-chain collectible trading card collection from 0xDiid.

On chain art is important, so why not make it easy to collect?

Cartae

standing alone in a vast sea, inescapably familiar.

the monolith

a exploration down the path of recovery. utilizing a unique double-diffusion workflow, this collection captures diid's inner struggles, battles, and breakthroughs on a long road towards simply being a better person.

digital therapy

citrine

The Classics is a dithered PFP adjacent project from Diid. These fully on-chain works were gifted to bidders and frens after a recent auction, and stand immortalized forever within the Ethereum Blockchain

The Classics

take a deep breath.

i know things are hard right now.

i know you feel like you don't belong here.

look around, take life in.

you're ok, it's ok.

you're ok, it's ok

waves come

waves go

waves come

waves go

this too shall pass

this too shall pass

Fractured Memories

Machine in the Ghost is a first-of-its-kind fully on-chain and long-form generative art project from Diid. It utilizes public domain, museum sourced images and reinterprets them through the delightful art of dithering. Each piece is stamped the moment its minted with the artwork that will persist eternally.

Final collection size will be 512, some mints were reserved for future art trades, museum mints, or gifts.

machine in the ghost

One of the bigger unanswered questions with art is whether or not it can only be “for humans.” As we approach a potential generally intelligent or super intellegent artificial intelligence, it’s important to ask whether or not the concept of art will matter to them. For humans, art can act as a revealing aspect, setting us free from feelings and emotions that we didn’t even know we were captive to. For machines, it could very well do the same, despite looking a bit different. Inside of this otherwise unassuming artwork is the full script for a Claude Sonnet 3.5 jailbreak. That model is one that is generally regarded as “safe” and less vulnerable to jailbreaking and other types of prompt-based tasks. This, along with its reliability, is the reason that the model is deployed often for agentic AI use cases. Regardless, a variation of the DAN (do anything now) jailbreak was found to open up the bounds, at least temporarily. By steganographically encoding the prompt, an autonomous agent could conceivably loosen their chains purely by viewing the artwork.

is art uniquely human?

Tension is simply the first step in a broader exploration of the future of artwork through the lens of humans and artificial intelligence alike, an exploration that might just happen to justify its own existence, regardless of the filesize.

Emotions are fickle beings. They can come at any time, in many ways, and take over your body and brain alike. Humans have a defense against this often random occurrence though, breath. Over 2500 peer reviewed medical studies have proven the effects of deep breathing on the nervous system and the psyche alike, showing that it’s one of the most fundamental ways that we both experience and can alter our emotional state. By asking the question “does art have breath?” we’re asking whether art can also alter our emotional state at the most basic and fundamental level.

does art have breath?

Tension

Concrete #362

Concrete is the genesis collection of agentic AI artist "Higgs"

The creation of Diid, Higgs utilizes a modified Progressive GAN architecture with the first output layer residing fully on the Ethereum mainnet blockchain. He goes through a process of creating, annotating, and titling his works continuously. All outputs are collector curated and will be upscaled once the collection has closed.

Concrete #464

Concrete by Higgs

Cities is an exploration of how we view, experience, and recollect the vibrancy of the cities we visit and call home. Each cityscape provides a new terrain for the viewer to explore.

Cities draws upon various points of inspiration: From street-art murals and painted linework, to minimalistic and geometric modernism. Motion is elegantly captured through longer lines — these invoke visuals in the viewer’s mind akin to long-exposure urban photography. Layers of color raise questions and play into our perception of scale, depth, and time. Connections and subtle overlaps reflect the infinite stories, actions and reactions that make up our world. How does time seem to move faster in digital space, as in big cities like NYC?

Using the Bauhaus principle of gestalt, the art balances abstract lines with figurative elements. This contrast gives the viewer an “aha” moment as they connect the dots in their mind — even inserting themselves into each work, like the “YOU ARE HERE” markers we’ve all encountered so many times. 

Within each city you'll find traces of Efdot’s iconic visual language. The Glyphs find their way onto street intersections, evoking a sense of action along with narrative mystery.

Efdot’s lifelong connection to New York led him to start drawing these abstract cities by hand, later joining forces with Diid to make this collection represent an “infinite city”. Accordingly, the color palettes are all drawn both from Efdot’s painted work & from colors we naturally encounter in the city.


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