On The Hill – the film(s)
starting today, a new series of short films, inspired by the DRASS album, ‘On The Hill’ a new episode released every day at 13:23 for the next 11 days…
Rorschach Test
One of the more fascinating aspects of current generative video models is their ability to imagine the intervening frames of a sequence. Give them a first and last frame, and a prompt, and the model…
Hallucinated Heroes
Most prompt-based generative AI systems are trained using some form of input and output pairs – an image and the text description of the image or the beginning of a sentence and its completion. What…
DRASS – Tridactyl
The new single from the forthcoming DRASS album, On The Hill. Available on all major streaming services.
AI in “not always evil” shocker
This is JT. JT is a writer and standup comedian. He also has cerebral palsy. I met JT in Presuming Ed’s, via our mutual friend Scott, the sweariest man in Brighton. Like many able-bodied, I’d…
Slow AI Manifesto
It’s 2026. Everyone hates AI. Artists, in particular, really fucking hate AI Which leaves me, an artist, who uses AI in their work, in a tricky position. This isn’t intended to be a rant, or…
Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With
Originally published in the aiEthix blog The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot…
Animated Aberrations
I’ve been experimenting with a new AI video model, utilising my solar-powered GPU rig to animate some of the images I created for the printed Aberrations Volume 1 booklet last year. In keeping with the…
AI, Art & Culture
A recording of my talk at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution https://www.brlsi.org/ discussing AI, Art & Culture, followed by a very lively set of questions from the audience! (The recording was made via…
DRASS – Nucleation Point
Written, arranged, produced, performed and generated by DRASS. For the video, I am leaning into the default ‘creepy influencer’ vibe of Flux – video generated with the FramePack generative-video model, entirely powered from the solar…
AI & The Artist
Eric Drass discusses AI in the context of the history of art technology. audio recorded at Creative Tech Meetup, Eagle Labs, Brighton 12/03/25
The Shardcore Inquisition 2025 – LLM edition.
‘The Shardcore Inquisition‘ is an interview video project from 2007. The premise is simple: a series of probing questions are placed in a hat, and drawn at random. The subject is filmed answering the questions…