TASTE Curation No.3 — Sherbet

an ancient future

Yashas Mitta is a Brooklyn-based creative director and founder of ExtraOrdinary Aliens, an experimental practice blending AI, design, and storytelling. With over 15 years of experience shaping bold campaigns for brands, Yashas brings a vibrant, globally informed perspective to everything he touches. His ongoing AI project Things imagines surreal, emotion-rich objects through precise text-to-image prompts — drawing inspiration from dreams, future worlds, childhood folklore, and the edges of digital creativity. Born in Bangalore and shaped by years in Singapore and New York, Yashas is a natural connector, driven by curiosity, color, and a deep love for human stories.

 

a dreamscape

Temple Caché is the Paris-based directing duo of Marion Castéra and Kelzang Ravach, known for crafting surreal, genre-defying visual worlds that blur the boundaries between reality, dreams, and digital invention. They took centre stage in the groundbreaking music video for Snoop Dogg’s Last Dance with Mary Jane, directed by Dave Meyers — renowned for iconic collaborations with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift — and Death Row Records, produced in partnership with Psyop — an established community of best-in-class global creators working together seamlessly across time zones and technologies to craft industry-defining work. Blending AI tools with handcrafted animation, and collaborating with a global pool of AI artists, Temple Caché helped pioneer a new mode of visual storytelling — one where AI serves the narrative, not the spectacle. Fusing machine-generated dreamscapes with layered, human-made nuance, their work embodies a bold creative ethos: part future-tech experiment, part myth-making engine, all unmistakably cinematic.

 

 

a fizzy wonderland

Sheldrick is a British-Korean artist based in London whose work blends fashion photography, AI, and cultural memory into evocative visual landscapes. A graduate of the London College of Fashion, he began experimenting with AI during the COVID pandemic and has since created imagery for clients including Manchester City FC, Coke Studios and Mercedes-Benz. His recent series presents a visual odyssey through South Korea — its streets, blossoms, marketplaces, and memory — where personal history is abstracted and beautified through AI. Drawing from the traditions of photography, painting, and the immersive world-building of gaming, Sheldrick transforms individual experience into collective, dreamlike tableaus.

 

 

a floral of fiction

Sarah Meyohas is a conceptual artist whose work interrogates the systems — technological, financial, and biological — that increasingly influence our world contemporary life. Blending emerging technologies with poetic symbolism, her practice includes projects like Cloud of Petals, where a GAN trained on 100,000 rose petals generated infinite digital variations, and Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her own physical artworks. Through visually arresting works involving AI, augmented reality, and blockchain, Meyohas crafts a language to make sense of otherwise invisible networks of power and data. She’s featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Vice, and Forbes 30 Under 30.

 

 

a wave of bodies

János Déri is a digital artist and AI filmmaker whose work fuses aesthetic precision with technological experimentation. With a background in sculpture and design, he explores the evolving synergy between form and innovation — crafting visually impactful narratives across lifestyle, fashion, automotive, architecture, and film. Enriched by AI, his work reflects a refined visual language that is both bold and immersive, creating distinctive identities that resonate across mediums.

 

 

a bright hallucination

LEGIO X is a visual artist and experimental musician whose hallucinatory, AI-generated works channel the chaotic intimacy of psychedelia, punk, and underground cinema. Drawing from a background of raw self-discovery ,  LEGIO X creates glitch-heavy digital art and music inspired by retro aesthetics, chromatic abstraction, and lo-fi AI tools like early GAN models. Eschewing high-fidelity polish for emotional grit, their work is a subconscious trip through fragmented realities — where digital hallucinations, sound, and image blur into a single visceral experience. As both a musician and artist, their visuals and music go hand-in-hand, eyes-and-ears, intertwined.

 

a bright pastel

Shaun Keenan, @ktheorphan, is a self-described phony artist from Newcastle whose work feels like a punchline delivered in oil pastel. Equal parts absurd, sublime, and psychedelic, Keenan’s AI paintings channel a lurid visual vernacular that pulls from lowbrow cartoons, British surrealism, and discount-store surrealist erotica. His compositions oscillate between the tragicomic and the grotesquely euphoric. In a world overrun by aesthetic polish, Keenan’s work is deliciously wrong—like sherbet spiked with battery acid. It doesn’t ask for permission. It throws paint, pixels, and posture into a blender, serving up a reminder that good taste is a scam and weird is worth worshipping.