Impermanent Digital is a cult-classic AI project by the multi-talented visual artist, musician, music video director and cover artist known as Glassface. Season One, 4444 AI-evolved CryptoPunks, is one of the earliest PFP projects to use AI art (September 2021, second only to Bastard GAN Punks), giving owners the option to evolve their tokens through multiple phases or burn them into the Afterlife collection. Season Two (iDreamer), 3333 1/1 AI avatars, involved over 50 artists creating with what might have been the first ever text-to-image Discord bot, months before Midjourney. Season Three (2222glassfaces) is a collection of 2222 deepfakes and parodies of project founder Glassface, an ambitious post-photography project referencing hundreds of specific photography styles. Season Four will be the final collection from this initial four-season structure, with a supply of 1111 (details unknown at this time.)
Evolution Stage One. The genesis collection originally consisted of 4444 pieces in which Glassface used CryptoPunks as "init images" and "evolved" them with a wide variety of text-to-image prompts he had developed, which he termed "wavelengths." Minted September 2021.
Evolution Stage Two. 1075 pieces resulting from owners opting to evolve to stage two. Once the owners had chosen to evolve, Glassface used the previous evolution as the init image and applied all new wavelengths newly created for this stage, then updated the metadata. Every stage two piece therefore has two total wavelengths in its metadata.
Evolution Stage Three. 221 pieces that were evolved by their owners to the third and final stage of the main collection (an additional stage of evolution took place for tokens that were burned to the Afterlife collection.) Glassface took the Stage Two pieces as init images and applied yet another series of all-new wavelengths, so that these pieces have three total wavelengths in their metadata. Note that in the few months since Stage One had minted the quality of the AI had already visibly improved.
Afterlife. In addition to evolving, owners could opt to burn their ID token in exchange for a new token in the separate Afterlife collection. The burn period took place from October 2021 to February 2022 as a gamified experiment that was ahead of its time, splitting the original collection into two collections with final supply and scarcity determined by the choices made by the owners. When an ID was burned, Glassface evolved the image with another newly created wavelength to create the art for the Afterlife token.
ID Memoriam. These GIFs showing the evolution of the pieces are claimable for free by Afterlife level 3 holders as of September 21, 2022, marking one year since the launch of Impermanent Digital.
iDreamer (Season Two). A small sampling of iDreamer, season two of Impermanent Digital, minted March 2022. See more in my iDreamer-focused gallery.
2222glassfaces (Season Three). Impermanent Digital's post-photography collection focusing on the theme of identity in the age of deepfakes, utilizing hundreds of specific photography styles in its prompts, from vintage photography to famous portrait photographers to Instagram selfies. Unlike Season Two, the art for this collection was once again made by Glassface alone. Minting opened in November 2022 in the depths of the bear market, and has not yet minted out.