I'm glad and excited to make my "Genesis" piece available on the Foundation, almost exactly a year after I released my first AI music video.

I met CLIP - the neural network that can steer image production using words - in January 2021, and it has became my main preoccupation ever since. I call this new multimodal approach of producing AI art "Promptism", and I feel that it is a vast continent of possibility, on which we have hardly placed our feet yet.

This animation gets its visual inspiration from European Renaissance painting. It is titled "Mystic Tree", as is fitting for a "Genesis", since the religious book with that title features a mystical tree of life and knowledge right in its beginning.

I still view my recent work as music videos, only here the music is tacit and soundless, evoked viscerally by the interplay of camera movement and individual morphs within the frame.