TASTE №5 — Slick

Edition №5 is Slick — a celebration of immaculate surfaces, precise visions, and the seductive clarity of future aesthetics. Each month, TASTE spotlights the most authored, genre-defining AI artists working today.

Slick is where beauty is sharpened by technology, and where style becomes a philosophy. This month, we explore crafted realities: Modem brings our dreams into focus with a pastel dream recorder. Eliza McNitt’s ANCESTRA fuses cosmic storytelling with generative innovation, GLΛ55HΣΛD fractures perception through crystalline design, and Johanna Jaskowska redefines beauty itself as a fluid, speculative construct.

From Carly Fridhandler’s editorial imagination to Samuel Goossens’ post-human ecologies and Kristin Jakubek’s hyper-real scenography, these artists prove that polish doesn’t preclude depth. InfiniteYay channels boundless wonder into lush, surreal worlds, while Melita Radocaj and Neïla Romeyssa craft imagery that merges high elegance with provocative detail.

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InfiniteYay is an artist and creative director exploring AI as a catalyst for world-building. A lifelong traditional artist with over 15 years in design, he embraced generative tools with enthusiasm, drawn to their power to translate imagination into vivid, surreal visuals. His work has appeared in galleries and exhibitions internationally, celebrating both the wonder and disruption of a world in flux. His recent series More Than Ever reflects on the overabundance of the AI era — a landscape of chaotic beauty and constant upheaval, where infinite possibilities collide with the challenge of finding balance. Through it all, InfiniteYay continues to chart new creative frontiers, reminding us that in art, as in life, there’s always more to discover.

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ANCESTRA, written and directed by Eliza McNitt, is a cosmic love story born from a birth story — where ancestral memory becomes a force of survival. Blending live-action filmmaking with generative tools, McNitt transforms her mother’s emergency delivery into a mythic narrative that channels past matriarchs, dying stars, and the gravitational pull of lineage. The film, brought to life by over 200 artists, is the debut from Primordial Soup, a storytelling venture by Darren Aronofsky. Created in collaboration with Google DeepMind, ANCESTRA reimagines what cinema can be when human memory and machine imagination meet — not in opposition, but in orbit. The film uses a hybrid production model, integrating live-action performance with advanced tools and emerging AI research, cultivating cutting-edge innovations and new interdisciplinary collaborations.

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Maciej Tarnowski, known as GLΛ55HΣΛD, is a 40-year-old graphic designer and art director from Poland. With a lifelong fascination for visual arts — from painting and graphic design to poster art and beyond — Tarnowski has always been drawn to the power of creative expression. He studied Fine Arts and spent years collaborating with leading agencies and global brands, shaping visual identities, campaigns, and digital experiences. At the heart of all of his work is glass: a symbol of fragility, clarity, and transformation. Its ability to reflect, distort, and fracture reality mirrors Tarnowski’s own process — creating images that invite viewers to look deeper, beyond the surface, into a space where design meets perception.

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Samuel Goossens, @goovision, is a German artist and designer exploring the overlap of nature, technology, and speculative futures. Working with gen AI, his practice blends sci-fi engineering with organic systems to imagine worlds beyond the human. His work envisions a post-human ecology where fungal intelligence and machine logic entwine — data-bearing mycelium sprouting from synthetic soil. Part archive, part myth, his work forms living ecosystems of code and decay, inviting us to drift through the thresholds of biology and design.

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Kristin Jakubek is a scenographer and media artist crafting hyper-real images at the intersection of set design, sculpture, and digital fabrication. With a background in fashion tech and media art, her work spans bespoke AI assets, product styling, and immersive scenographic prototyping. From large-scale video installations to tactile props, Jakubek builds spaces where narratives unfold through texture, perception, and estrangement. Her practice moves fluidly between the physical and the virtual — a boundless approach to image-making that turns the set itself into a story.

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Dream Recorder is a device from venture studio Modem, created in collaboration with standout illustrator Alexis Jamet. Blending pastel-toned AI animation with dreamy voice inputs, the device transforms spoken dreams into soft, cinematic vignettes — a low-res portal into the subconscious. The result is a gently looping archive of nightly visions, generated in Jamet’s signature gradients and playful softness. As an open-source project, users can DIY their own Dream Recorder, capturing the subconscious in ultra-low definition.

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Melita Radocaj is an art director and generative AI artist redefining visual storytelling at the edge of technology and design. With over two decades in advertising and film, she blends high-end elegance with surrealist provocation, crafting imagery that reveals hidden perspectives and intricate details. Her work moves fluidly between fashion, entertainment, and experimental content, resonating with an international clientele from avant-garde to classic.

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Carly Fridhandler, known online as Scorpion Sorbet, is a Montreal-based senior art director and AI artist who merges over a decade of advertising expertise with high-fashion aesthetics. By day, she collaborates with global brands like Adidas, Nivea, Walmart, Olay, Cirque du Soleil; by night, she crafts surreal AI-generated landscapes where the ethereal meets the editorial. Fridhandler’s work explores the tension between comfort and discomfort, pushing creative boundaries to evoke deep emotional resonance.

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Neïla Romeyssa is a Paris-based visual storyteller working at the intersection of art, technology, and ancestral memory. Born across the Mediterranean and raised between poetry and code, she weaves her lineage into every project — drawing from a grandfather who painted, a father who wrote, and a mother who engineered the digital. Through her namesake studio, Romeyssa blends literature, film, and digital invention into immersive narratives that feel both deeply personal and culturally resonant.

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Johanna Jaskowska is a visual artist and creative technologist reshaping digital identity through speculative design and synthetic beauty. Based in Madrid, she gained global recognition with Beauty3000, the viral AR filter that redefined virtual aesthetics and reached over 500 million impressions. Her work lives at the intersection of fashion, technology, and futurism — from co-creating the first blockchain digital dress to collaborations with Lady Gaga, Givenchy, and Nike. Now, through her studio PATIO, Jaskowska is building new narratives at the edge of AI, image-making, and immersive experience — crafting futures where beauty is fluid and reality is always up for revision.

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