Oneohtrix Point Never - MYRIAD

What this video is

Released March 2018, the MYRIAD trailer video arrived at a cultural inflection point: the Anthropocene anxiety of the late 2010s, widespread popular discourse around AI and machine cognition, and the maturation of post-internet visual culture as an institutional art form. Lopatin's concept — advanced AIs near the end of time reconstructing humanity from its collective digital output — directly mirrors contemporary…

Why it matters

MYRIAD represents a landmark in art-electronic multimedia: a promo/trailer video that functions as a standalone conceptual artwork, merging David Rudnick's influential typographic design school with Nate Boyce's CGI sculptural aesthetic and Lopatin's post-internet sonic collage. It consolidates…

The director

Daniel Lopatin (b. 1982, Boston, MA) is an American composer, producer, and musician known as Oneohtrix Point Never. Signed to Warp Records, he won the Cannes Film Festival Soundtrack Award in 2017 for the Safdie Brothers film Good Time. MYRIAD marks his…