Bruce | Studio Yorktown

Generative Art, Algorithmic Illustration and Design.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

Hello! I'm Kwame Bruce Busia, but many know me better as just Bruce or Studio Yorktown.

My artistic journey has taken me from architecture, to photography, graphic design, and even creating tools for fellow digital artists. Today, I'm deeply immersed in the world of generative art, exploring the creation of art via the use of computer code.

I explore various art forms and mediums and while I don't have one particular aesthetic style, my creations are guided by two things: attention to detail and a love for simple concepts that can both delight and surprise.

I'm enthusiastic about web3 and the future of NFTs and believe in their ability to open up innovative ways to connect with others and distribute art.

I release my works across multiple chains like Tezos, Ethereum and Solana, creating ‘Sabler’, ‘Tesseract’ and ‘Perpendicular Inhabitation’, as well as had my work displayed internationally including at Art Basel Miami Beach and the NEAL Digital Gallery in China.

For a glimpse into my past, present, and future projects, feel free to follow the link in my profile 🙏🏾

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[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

Wow! Thank you Brad 🙏🏾

[Brad Connell @fauxjebus]

Art of the day: Perpendicular Inhabitation 178 by @StudioYorktown
@fraimic_art 🖼️

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

We know cigarettes are bad for us. Are cigarettes 'silently seeking to eliminate the human race' or do we keep smoking them?

The companies that sell AI services will naturally market AI and overstate its capabilities, but the technology itself is just a technology.

People are not removed from the equation unless people with the ability to make that decision choose that. It is humans who choose to circumvent IP for training data. A person can train and use models ethically.

I also struggle to see how a technology that can also detect medical conditions years in advance 'eliminates the human race'. Blanket anti-AI statements lack nuance.

People said the Internet would stop us all going to the office, was full of crazy people, it wasn't safe to buy things online and that on the stroke of midnight 1999, society would collapse.

How much of that actually happened?

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@Shendrik_NFT No problem, DMs open 🙏🏾

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

Hello! I'm Kwame Bruce Busia, but many know me better as just Bruce or Studio Yorktown.

My artistic journey has taken me from architecture, to photography, graphic design, and even creating tools for fellow digital artists. Today, I'm deeply immersed in the world of generative art, exploring the creation of art via the use of computer code.

I explore various art forms and mediums and while I don't have one particular aesthetic style, my creations are guided by two things: attention to detail and a love for simple concepts that can both delight and surprise.

I'm enthusiastic about web3 and the future of NFTs and believe in their ability to open up innovative ways to connect with others and distribute art.

I release my works across multiple chains like Tezos, Ethereum and Solana, creating ‘Sabler’, ‘Tesseract’ and ‘Perpendicular Inhabitation’, as well as had my work displayed internationally including at Art Basel Miami Beach and the NEAL Digital Gallery in China.

For a glimpse into my past, present, and future projects, feel free to follow the link in my profile 🙏🏾

🔴⚪️⚫️

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@GaloAndStuff That’s a great way of looking at it, I like that 🤣

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@masato_ott @SuzukiTaka This appears to be the case although I don’t think that is a correct categorization. To me, this would still count as ‘AI assisted’ only

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

I appreciate the efforts for categorization, though I am curious if the labels would apply retroactively as well. I think it will only be selectively enforced. There are many international artists and producers that have been using AI, so I doubt the labels would push them to willingly and truthfully disclose that fact for fear of backlash. I also think it is somewhat restrictive with regards to lead vocals counting as ‘full AI’ regardless of if a human still writes the melody, production, lyrics etc. for me, this would still clearly fall under AI-assisted.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@xpg0970 Absolutely incredible. Thank you! 🙏🏾

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@MukiTanaka Really good so far. AI seems to struggle with compound camera movements. The hero would be rising at the same time as the camera is orbiting, but it breaks it into separate actions. You could film the shot with pre-vis/an action figure on a phone and feed that in as a reference!

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@vaj_mindpalace @TmosMonstrocity @poolnoodle93 My bad, I didn't realize! 😅🫡

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@TmosMonstrocity @vaj_mindpalace @poolnoodle93 Samples, loops, presets, ghost writers, sample cds, samples so short you can’t verify the sources, midi chord packs - the outrage is so misinformed that it almost feels manufactured.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

1) No. AI data centers use closed loop cooling. It uses the same water over and over. What escapes turns to steam. The amount of water on Earth does not change. If it did, it would be breaking the laws of physics.

2) not all AI models contain copyrighted material. Some are open source with ethically sourced training material. You can even train your own. The tech is sound, it’s the training that can be problematic.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@spike_0124 Prijatno 😂

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

there is a right and wrong way to use technology - and when it’s new, the spectrum is entirely unclear.

whether it was the locomotive, the internet, the camera, computer graphics/CGI…all unclear at first. but the work to figure it out is the work that advances every industry.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

Too much mixing can ruin songs. Lately I only mix twice. Once for thirty minutes until I am happy, then again the next day to catch anything I missed. Simple tools: Reverb, EQ, compression. Better to aim for authentic expression of your idea than optimum pro-audio results. The resulting sound is infused with the parts you like and don’t like about the process, but experienced in retrospect!

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@michaelybecker While that may be true, that mostly applies to models trained by certain companies. There are Open Source AI models trained on ethical data. You can even train your own with your own material. It punishes a method of production and a technology as a whole instead of the culprits.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

I do not agree with mass spamming streaming platforms with auto-generated content for making money from streams, but also imagine if in the past someone said 'we won't pay royalties because you used a synthesizer' or demonitized music because they don't like *how* it was made.

[Tidal @TIDAL]

We're a music platform that puts artists and listeners first. To protect artists and keep listeners informed, here's how we're handling AI-generated music on Tidal beginning on July 15:

- 100% AI-generated tracks will receive a badge that says “AI” and will not receive royalties.
- Content designed to impersonate other artists gets removed.
- Listeners will be able to filter all 100% AI-generated content out.
- These standards also apply to Tidal Uploads.

Read in full: https://t.co/eHpTS64RfU

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@nclslbrn Absolutely fantastic 👌🏾

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@cmntcakefirst Really excited for this one!

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

@CCDDBB This is pretty much what everyone is doing to get around it anyway... 😅 but there are so many shades of grey in between I don't know how enforceable it is in reality.

[Bruce | Studio Yorktown @StudioYorktown]

Well aware of that fact, thank you. I should have pointed out that my statement was made with sarcasm. That is exactly the point I was making though.

AI is demonitized, yet the majority of modern music is made with loops, samples, presets, software from largely the same royalty free sources, even 'top hits'.

I do think the flood of fully auto AI generated output needs to be stopped, but not all AI use is the same. It could be just a vocal, or for mixing etc.

The industry has been pumping out the same 'slop' for decades, manually - AI just is being used to do it at scale, so the outrage and the reasons for it seem disingenuous.

Not worried so much about the AI, but where is the line drawn before the platforms start dictating to artists how they can achieve their results? If people were outraged about synthesisers (like they were), would you demonetise tracks with synths?