TASTE Curation No.2 — Riot

 

a bright red dance

YZA Voku is a Madrid-based visual artist and film director redefining cinematic expression with AI. His signature style — seen in works like The Weeknd’s São Paulo Streaming Teaser — blends bold visual language, surreal aesthetics, and a restless pursuit of movement and ephemerality. With roots in art direction, photography, and storytelling, YZA Voku uses AI as a limitless medium for creative reinvention. Known for his striking use of red, Voku constructs visual narratives that feel alive, constantly in flux, and emotionally charged. For Voku, AI is both a creative playground and a provocation, pushing storytelling into an ever-shifting terrain.

 

 

 

a textural movement

Infrarouge is a digital artist and creative director whose practice blurs the lines between photography, artificial intelligence, and the subconscious. Drawing on a decade-long career in Parisian advertising, he now uses AI to deconstruct memory, cultural icons, and dreamscapes into surreal generative visuals. His work — featured in Antidote Magazine and exhibited at the European Month of Photography in Berlin — explores the fragile border between memory and hallucination, inviting viewers into liminal spaces where technology transforms the way we see, feel, and remember.

 

 

a silhouette tailored

Nik Gundersen is a CGI generalist and visual designer redefining the boundaries of fashion, technology, and luxury through cutting-edge 3D and AI techniques. His work moves fluidly between next-gen image-making — creating hyperreal still life and dynamic visuals — and immersive product and set design for the fashion industry. Collaborating with Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Cartier and Dior, Gundersen crafts intricate, technologically advanced digital worlds that challenge perception and elevate storytelling. His portfolio is a testament to the craft of digital artistry defining culture.

 

 

a verse in motion

Tom Furse is an AI artist who has crafted a distinctive visual language at the intersection of technology, sound, and storytelling. Leveraging his deep expertise in AI and strong ties to the music industry, he has directed music videos and visuals for artists including CamelPhat and Maverick Sabre. Beyond the music world, Furse has been commissioned by heritage brands like Liberty and Wedgwood, using generative AI to reimagine their legacy with bold, contemporary campaigns. His work stands at the forefront of AI-driven visual culture, where art, music, and innovation collide.

 

 

an irreverent principle

Charlie Engman is a Brooklyn-based photographer, director, and art director whose work is equally playful as it is tantalising — blending discipline with irreverence and the weird with the wonderful. His distinctive visual language has been featured in AnOther Magazine, Dazed, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and POP, alongside commercial collaborations with Prada, Marni, Hermès, Adidas, Nike, and Stella McCartney. Engman’s recent body of work marks his venture into AI-generated art and post-photographic experimentation, provoking important questions in art-making such as hierarchy, consent, access, labor, technique, and the mythos of individual genius.

 

 

 

a nearby nostalgia

don’t Buy is a visual artist who creates digital paintings, videos and GIFs using artificial intelligence and mixed media. Based in the aesthetics of retro digital windows, floating cursors, and glitch screens, their practice captures a fleeting digital moment — preserving the interfaces and visual language of an era on the cusp of obsolescence. Blending AI visuals with personal vision, don’t buy embraces the symbiosis between human creativity and machine execution. Their work reflects on materiality and impermanence, particularly in the context of NFTs and intangible art, questioning what it means to create, preserve, and collect in a world that increasingly exists in the digital.

 

a sleeping mind

Ossagrosse is an Italian artist based in Berlin whose multidisciplinary practice spans still images, audio, and video created in collaboration with artificial intelligence. Their work explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, using AI as both subject and tool to reflect on identity, perception, and the subconscious. Featured in Red Eye, Fisheye, Artribune, and the book Spells: Pioneers by Max Kuwertz, Ossagrosse believes that confronting the machine is a way to explore the depths of the human psyche.