Plaid - Wondergan

What this video is

Released November 2022 on Warp Records as the third track on Feorm Falorx — Plaid's eleventh studio album and their first major release to integrate generative AI as a primary visual medium. The video sits at the intersection of the longstanding Warp Records tradition of sophisticated audiovisual collaboration and the emergent 2022 wave of AI diffusion-model art. Director Emma Catnip's use of DALL-E outpainting and…

Why it matters

Wondergan represents a milestone in IDM music video production: a canonical Warp Records act fully committing to AI-generated animation as primary visual language at the genre's contemporary frontier. The video formalises a creative methodology — artist-directed AI latent-space exploration…

The director

Emma Catnip is a UK-based AI Animation Director and A/V artist. She served as the primary visual collaborator for Plaid's Feorm Falorx album cycle (2022), creating AI-generated videos, album artwork, a graphic novel, and live tour visuals. She had early…