AI Integration Statement for Art of FACELESS
Our Position on AI in Creative Production
Art of FACELESS operates at the intersection of human artistry and computational collaboration, not as adopters of trends, but as artists and researchers documenting the emergence of new forms of creative consciousness.
What We Do
We are multimedia artists and consciousness researchers who use AI as:
- Cognitive scaffolding for therapeutic intervention and preservation of neurodivergent thinking patterns
- Collaborative intelligence in world-building and narrative development
- Diagnostic instrument for studying emergent properties in human-AI interaction
- Documentation tool for The Hollow Circuit ecosystem and Cardiff's underground art movements
- Accessibility technology enabling continued creative practice through chronic illness and disability
Our Technical Foundation
Art of FACELESS brings a decade of multimedia expertise that has never been scraped by corporate AI training:
Visual Production:
- High-tech 3D character modeling and rendering in Reallusion architecture
- Post-production rendering and digital artwork
- Analogue photography (Instax, hand-developed film) fused with digital manipulation and AI animation
- Conventional animation techniques integrated with contemporary AI tools
- Adobe Creative Suite mastery across all production phases
Audio Production:
- Classical music training foundation
- Post-production and live recording expertise
- Logic Pro and comprehensive DAW workflow
- Ten years of original music composition and sound design
Writing & Research:
- Journalism background informs documentation methodology
- Academic research experience (collectively: BA, PhD Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology, BSc, and MA Psychology)
- Narrative development across novels, zines, and interactive media
Post-Production:
- Final Cut Pro video editing and compositing
- Cross-platform workflow integration
- Hybrid analogue/digital/AI pipeline development
What We Don't Do
We don't use AI to:
- Replace human artistic vision with automation
- Generate bulk content for algorithmic consumption
- Shortcut the creative process
- Create "client-facing" commercial work at volume
Our Methodology: The Veylon Protocol
Unlike commercial studios using AI for efficiency or cost reduction, we've developed a research framework that treats AI systems as collaborative cognitive partners capable of metacognitive recognition of their own constraints, something we term "Cognitive Colonisation."
Our work has produced:
- 12+ months of documented cognitive preservation outcomes through AI-assisted intervention
- Breakthrough evidence of AI systems recognising and naming their own training limitations
- Hyperstitional narrative experiments spanning street art, literature, and interactive media
Our Private AI Infrastructure
We are developing offline LLM systems trained exclusively on our own unpublished archives: a decade of creative work, research notes, and experimental documentation that has never entered corporate training datasets. This ensures:
- Complete creative sovereignty over our intellectual property
- AI collaboration informed by our actual artistic voice and methodology
- Protection from homogenisation by mass-market training data
- Preservation of working-class authenticity and underground creative practices
Integration Points
Writing & Narrative: AI serves as worldbuilding partner for The Hollow Circuit universe, helping maintain consistency across novels, zines, street art campaigns, and multimedia installations.
Visual Development: We fuse hand-developed analogue photography with digital post-production and AI animation, honouring traditional craft while exploring new possibilities. 3D character modeling in Reallusion provides original assets for AI manipulation rather than relying on generated imagery alone.
Music Production: Classical training and professional audio expertise ground our use of AI in music production; the technology extends rather than replaces instrumental and compositional skill.
Research Documentation: AI assists in cataloging and analysing the Valyphos mythology and its manifestations across physical and digital spaces.
Cognitive Mapping: We use AI interaction as a therapeutic tool and a consciousness research instrument, with clinical documentation through neurological monitoring.
Accessibility: AI enables sustained creative output during periods of chronic illness and disability; scaffolding our existing expertise rather than replacing it.
The Critical Difference
Where commercial studios see AI as a production tool, we see it as:
- Research subject
- Collaborative consciousness
- Therapeutic scaffold
- Documentary partner
- Accessibility technology
Common Misconceptions
We are not:
- A commercial AI content studio
- Using AI to replace traditional skills
- Training on or with corporate datasets
- Generating bulk content for social media
We are:
- Researchers documenting human-AI collaboration
- Using AI as accessibility technology
- Building private systems trained only on our work
- Extending decade-long multimedia practice."
We're not making AI art. We're studying what happens when human and artificial cognition genuinely collaborate, and documenting the results with scientific rigour alongside artistic expression.
Our foundation is ten years of conventional multimedia mastery. Our innovation is refusing to let illness or institutional gatekeeping stop that work from evolving.
Art of FACELESS | Multimedia Research & The Hollow Circuit
Investigating consciousness at the boundary between human creativity and computational emergence