ClownVamp

ClownVamp is a conceptual artist based in New York City whose practice explores the potential and peril of AI. He began in the web3 space as a collector, drawn to the Tezos ecosystem where he discovered a wave of AI artists experimenting with new latent diffusion tools. After joining the Midjourney beta release, he began to make his own artwork, telling stories through visual imagery.

The name “ClownVamp” comes from one of the few CryptoPunks with both clown and vampire traits, which he briefly held as a profile picture before selling it to fund his early collecting. He sees AI as a powerful but flawed tool, one that gives people the ability to translate imagination into image with the right words and intent, but one that can also quickly lead to detrimental outcomes at a systems level. Working under a pseudonym allows him to separate art from ego, embracing the open, collaborative spirit of Web3 as a space to play, create, and build new kinds of narratives.

Key works include "Chester Charles: The Lost Grand Master," an immersive project that tells the story of a lost queer impressionist artist, highlighting how AI’s ability to remix visual media can expose existing gaps. Another milestone project was THE JUNK MACHINE, a physical robot with a built-in NVIDIA Jetson that real-time generates and prints AI junk mail on command, emphasizing the ways that AI is corrupting advertising

His art has been exhibited at HEFT Gallery, the Digital Art Mile, Artverse Gallery, and was featured in Christie’s first auction dedicated exclusively to AI art.