What does an art practice look like when it’s dreaming? This spring, TITLES and Gray Area gave five artists an unusual brief: train a custom AI model on your own creative practice, and see what it dreams up. On May 9th, Arvida Byström, Huntrezz Janos, Lou Fauroux, Yvonne Fang, and Sharon Zheng unveil their models for the first time, and explore what happens when a body of work begins generating from within itself. Curated by Alice Scope Free RSVP: https://luma.com/3c7tytnl Saturday, May 9, 2026 Doors at 6:30 PM Gray Area / Grand Theater 2665 Mission St, San Francisco
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In Protocolized's latest newsletter, @vgr describes TITLES in a way that gets to the heart of what we’re building: an ecology of artist-trained models woven together by a protocol and studio that allows for remixing, attribution, and profit-sharing. It’s not just about individual models, but the creative environment that arises from many models working together, which is greater than the sum of its parts. https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-primordial-computing-soup
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AI has made it easy to generate images. That’s not the same thing as creating a culture worth living in. A real creative ecosystem does not come from infinite content supply. It comes from people whose taste, discipline, history, and unique way of seeing give form to something that did not exist before. Most AI platforms were built on extraction. They scrape culture, flatten authorship, and turn human expression into anonymous input for generic systems. The result is a creative economy where style is detached from the people who made it. That is why so much of AI creation feels empty. We started TITLES from a different belief. We believe that AI creation should begin with artists, not erase them. If AI is already becoming part of the creative landscape, then the artist must remain an integral part of the system. Their vision cannot be treated as raw material that disappears into the interface. We believe that creative technology should be able to hold memory. It should not sever style from source. Attribution should not be an afterthought, a courtesy, or a marketing tactic. It should be built into the infrastructure of creation itself. This is why we built TITLES. We want a world where creative technology deepens artistic identity instead of stripping it away. We want infrastructure that remembers. The goal is not more content. It is a better creative order.
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