Plaid - C.A. [Visualiser]

What this video is

Released September 2022 as the lead single from Plaid's tenth studio album Feorm Falorx (Warp Records, November 2022), 'C.A.' arrived at a pivotal cultural inflection point: the first year that DALL-E 2 and Disco Diffusion became broadly available to artists, triggering widespread debate about AI's role in creative production. Plaid, as 30-year Warp Records veterans and foundational figures of the IDM and…

Why it matters

Plaid are foundational figures of the IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) and post-techno canon, active since the late 1980s under the Plaid name and as founding members of The Black Dog. 'C.A.' represents the band's integration of physical modeling synthesis with AI visual production — a convergence of…

The director

London-based AI Animation Director and A/V artist. Described by NOMINT as using "the very latest in AI technology to create visual content unlike anything that has been created before." Was part of OpenAI's artist program for DALL-E, gaining early access to…