@arvidabystrom: "she is just a number"
Earlier this week, Arvida showed us around her studio.
Today, we're releasing a model she made with TITLES.
Built from years of images, references, aesthetics, characters, and internet artifacts, "she is just a number" opens up a specific chapter of Arvida's practice for others to explore and create with.
Explore the model at https://t.co/IGGV1VI1rS.
Studio 06: Arvida Byström (@arvidabystrom) is a visual artist originally from Stockholm, now based in Paris. Working across image-making, objects, websites, publishing, and installation. Her practice feels expansive in the same way her studio does.
Filled with books, print-outs, collected objects, mannequins, works-in-progress, and Pedro, the studio feels open, personal, and constantly evolving — somewhere between an archive, and a living room.
Arvida showed TITLES around.
Studio 04: Aarati Akkapeddi is an artist, teacher, designer, and technologist whose work explores memory across personal, collective, biological, and computational scales. Drawing on unofficial archives—from family photos and ancestral rituals to ecological traces of colonialism—they work with code, print, video, and bookmaking to question what gets recognized as record.
Aarati’s studio is a room in their apartment with lots of light, and a friendly cat and dog. It has many different kinds of personal and practical materials that they use for research and production.
They gave TITLES a tour.
AI has made it easy to generate images. That’s not the same thing as creating a culture worth living in.
A real creative ecosystem does not come from infinite content supply. It comes from people whose taste, discipline, history, and unique way of seeing give form to something that did not exist before.
Most AI platforms were built on extraction. They scrape culture, flatten authorship, and turn human expression into anonymous input for generic systems. The result is a creative economy where style is detached from the people who made it. That is why so much of AI creation feels empty.
We started TITLES from a different belief.
We believe that AI creation should begin with artists, not erase them. If AI is already becoming part of the creative landscape, then the artist must remain an integral part of the system. Their vision cannot be treated as raw material that disappears into the interface.
We believe that creative technology should be able to hold memory. It should not sever style from source. Attribution should not be an afterthought, a courtesy, or a marketing tactic. It should be built into the infrastructure of creation itself.
This is why we built TITLES, alongside artists like @aleqth, @caballeroanama, @a1111ac011d0, @blakejamieson, @canekzapata, @dvsch, @emilyxxie, @empresstrash, @figa_link, @GLillemon, @goyong_arts, @guruguruhyena, @juujuumama, @Mad_Dog_Jones, @mayaonthenet, @MrMisang, @RanggaPurAji, @RedruMxART, @GalverseAnime, @vgr, and @wscfyi.
We want a world where creative technology deepens artistic identity instead of stripping it away. We want infrastructure that remembers.
The goal is not more content. It is a better creative order.
Most AI tools give everyone access to the same generic models. The result? Everything looks the same.
We have a different vision for AI creation.
Introducing TITLES, a new creative studio built around AI models trained and owned by artists.
In Studio, you can create with distinct visual perspectives developed by artists, across image and video — all in one place.
This is the future we're building toward: not one model for everyone, but a growing network of unique styles you can build with — where artists get credited and paid as the work spreads.
Enter Your Creative Studio: https://t.co/NmY5aBL4q8
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Monday for Model as a Medium in NYC!
In partnership with Rhizome (@rhizome), we commissioned five artists from diverse creative backgrounds to build their own custom AI models. Monday, we brought them together for a conversation on creative process and the evolving conditions of authorship in the age of AI.
Grateful to the artists, collaborators, and everyone who came through.
Studio 01: Alex Headlam (@aleqth) is a multimodal artist, technologist, and creative developer whose work reflects on pop culture through technological architecture.
His studio is a two room modular workstation equipped for both painting and digital practice — one half for digital art and music, the other half for painting. And sleeping.
We asked him to show us around.