Graffiti and new media artist KATSU is one of many artists who embraced the world of crypto art, as he is slated to launch one-of-one editions of his artworks on popular platform for NFT art, Superrare. A video of a drone painting, and early renderings of his AI criminal portraiture series follow his previous series of machine-based abstract paintings exhibited in New York City’s The Hole Gallery last year.

For the drone painting video, KATSU operates the flying apparatus affixed with a spray can and tags the phrase “The World Need More Sh*t” to reflect society’s materialistic desires and impulses as a consumer culture while also touching on the mankind’s abuse and misuse of technology. 

“Katsu believes that the drone is an almost spiritual representation of the human machine coexistence. This performative video captures the studio work of KATSU using a KATSURU drone prototype,” the description of the work reads.

AI criminal portraiture series were developed with the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence, combining thousands of criminal face shots to create unique figurative portraits. “The pieces explore themes of inherent bias in algorithms.”

Visit Superrare’s website to learn more about the creations.