Plaid - Perspex

What this video is

Released in October 2022, 'Perspex' arrives at a pivotal cultural moment: the first widespread integration of AI image synthesis tools (including diffusion models and OpenAI's DALL-E) into mainstream music video production. For Plaid — Ed Handley and Andy Turner, foundational figures of the Warp Records IDM movement since the early 1990s — the video extends a career-long commitment to fusing cutting-edge technology…

Why it matters

Plaid are cornerstone figures of the Warp Records IDM tradition, active since the late 1980s, and 'Perspex' marks their 11th album cycle. The video is genre-significant as a documented early example of a legacy experimental electronic act fully embracing AI generative visual art as a primary music…

The director

Emma Catnip is a pioneering digital artist working at the intersection of AI, animation, and music video. Described in press coverage as a leading practitioner of AI-powered generative image synthesis, she created the Perspex short film using an AI-powered…