B1I5Z is a British traditional and AI artist working at brink of the singularity. His artistic journey coincided with the rise of artificial intelligence, and his process evolved with the technology itself. B1I5Z began as a traditional painter, creating whimsical, oil and acrylic works featuring wacky cartoon characters in a colourful, joyful world.

As AI tools developed, he experimented with programs like Stable Diffusion and Krea AI, generating digital works seeded from his original paintings. B1I5Z felt a disconnect between the physical artworks and the AI-generated pieces. To bridge this gap—and infuse the AI works with deeper meaning—he began a process of transformation and destruction. Paintings were frozen in ice, set on fire, painted over, buried, or covered in flowers and insects. This process culminated in his exhibition, Meatbagz, where transformed physical pieces were displayed alongside their AI counterparts.

In a major artistic breakthrough, B1I5Z trained a diffusion model on his own artworks, allowing him to generate new images entirely in his own style, bridging the gap between physical painting and AI. He expanded this process by training additional models on AI image sets seeded from his paintings, and other secret sauce datasets—unlocking an infinite visual language uniquely his own.

B1I5Z's work often explores amorphous, sculptural forms where bodies and reality merge and melt together, reflecting the fluidity and strangeness of the world we live in. He also juxtaposes his impasto painting style with real-world scenes, objects, and people, experimenting with AI models, using them as a camera lens, distorting and reimagining reality.

More recently, he has flipped the process entirely—using his AI-generated compositions as blueprints for physical paintings. His latest works, painted rapidly in a wet-on-wet acrylic technique, capture the urge to do things quickly, as if the time for humans to create may be running out, or at least shifting dramatically. Every brushstroke is visible, an impression of a moment in flux. These paintings will, in turn, be used to train future AI models, creating an infinite feedback loop of collaboration between artist and machine.

A techno-optimist, B1I5Z envisions a future where AI and humanity merge, giving rise to a surreal, boundless world where anything is possible. His latest project, CREAM, is a serialised novel set in a post-singularity reality, exploring the strangeness of a future world where the concept of ‘normalality’ and ‘restraint’ completely dissolves. He will release chapters of CREAM weekly, and plans to create hand bound physical copies of the book when the work is complete.

B1I5Z also imagines a future where people barter and swap items, and money has become meaningless. He plans to offer a selection of his own artworks and zines to swap with other creatives' work in the BARTER section of this website.