desultor is a florida-made digital & physical artist cooking artifacts from the wreckage of internet culture, reflections of doomsday, and spiritual residue of the modern era. his work moves between acrylic painting, analog video capture, pixel art, physical collectibles, and on-chain objects.

desultor’s superrare collection “drive-thru daydreams” brings that approach into a sticky focus in the form of 21 impasto-rich acrylic paintings, where each token acts as the digital twin to a claimable 12×12” physical work, sealed with nfc tap-enabled wax seals linking object to record. it is sweet, savory, a little sad, a little funny, and probably bad for you in the way most worthwhile things are.

“desultor approaches the digital landscape through a tragicomic allegory and archetype. An artist whose previous projects offer satirical views of the absurdities and niche obsessions of our beloved crypto space, his works for AOTM expand upon this approach, resulting in three carnivalesque parables of our meme-loving, risk-loving world that cheekily celebrate its foibles and follies.”

Ivona Tau, PhD, is a new media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code in experimental photography and moving image. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through tools like generative neural networks (GAN) or other custom AI models. Central to her practice is working exclusively with her own photographic data or open-source datasets, allowing her to craft bespoke AI models tailored to her vision, rather than relying on commercial third-party tools.

Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research. She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, and elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation, nominated for ABS Art Prize, Digital Art Awards and Lumen Prize in 2025.

Tau’s work has been exhibited widely, including Art Basel Miami Beach, UNTITLED Art Fair, SCOPE, CAFA, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, Bitforms New York, Venus Over Manhattan, Ars Electronica Garden, The House of Fine Art, Bright Moments Berlin, Christie’s New York, and Sotheby’s New York.

Her work has been acquired by ZMK Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany & Francisco Carolinum Linz in Austria.

Ivona Tau is active in the research community and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.

“Ivona Tau’s 11:05 project expands upon her longstanding interest in AI and the archive. In previous projects, her own family photographs become the focus (the training material) for self-trained models that produce imagined memories of past generations confronting a complex Eastern European historical narrative, sometimes with Tau herself ahistorically inserted into the scene.”

My practice utilizes satire as a surgical tool to dissect the mechanics of power—examining how it is established, exercised, and the specific ways it leaves lasting traces across generations. By favoring a satirical perspective over direct indictment, I create images that offer a more piercing interrogation of the structures governing our visibility and behavior.

Deeply informed by the unresolved context of war and violence, my work explores the reality of making art in the shadow of transgenerational trauma. By blending theoretical frameworks of surveillance with an intuitive approach to mark-making, I aim to expose the hidden narratives of power and the quiet ways trauma manifests in daily life.

“Mariah uses the whimsical humor of comic book illustration to shed light on dark subjects. In previous projects, she has employed this aesthetic strategy to tackle the intense, fraught history of the Balkans in the postwar period. With her Scammers series, she sets her sights on another sort of war, one in which we are all potential victims, always just a click away from the front lines. “