Contort is a generative machine learning piece created with CLIP + VQGAN. The CLIP + VQGAN technique is an AI art technique in which the artist describes an image in natural language to a system of machine learning models. The machine learning system attempts to create an image matching the natural language prompt based on a semantic understanding of natural language and image composition learned by the models during an initial training process. The resulting image is a synthesis between the artist's ability to compose a compelling text prompt and the machine's understanding of the human world.