Rob Sheridan, artist and co-creator of Glitch Goods, has taken the first anniversary of his AI body horror fashion series, The Meat Gala, to announce his new collaboration and extension of The Meat Gala into the real world.
As Sheridan said on Instagram, “Absolutely stunning looks at the #MetGala2022. I know it was a controversial decision, but I think opening a portal to Hell was exactly what this year's event needed to spice things up.”
It was a subversive take on the yearly fashion event that has people riveted on social media and was one of the first AI art projects to go viral. In addition to getting a lot of attention in the media, it also drew the ire of born-again Christians who started yelling the usual type of things about Satan and damnation.
Sheridan is announcing his first sculpture/statue today based on The Meat Gala images, which will be an original creation collaboration with the incredible indie figure/statue sculptor/painter who goes by the name Many Legs: instagram.com/many_legs/
Here are the details, “Six meticulously hand-painted 1/4 scale busts of Serzodul, Mother of Serpents signed/numbered by both of us, including an exclusive signed/numbered print, dropping May 12th direct from me.”
There is a teaser of the busts on Sheridan’s Instagram.
Sheridan said, of the collaboration, “It's exciting because we connected after my MET Gala horror series went viral last year and started on this idea of bringing these evocative but fairly low-res/flat early-AI demons to life, and what that might look like, and went back and forth for a while coming up with this bust, we have six of these hand-painted 13" tall statues, signed/numbered with a print, I'm going to release directly from my website.
“But most importantly for me, it's an exciting way to show how AI's strength as a way of expressing ideas - particularly in a rapid-fire social media landscape - can be a starting point that brings real artists together to make new real-world art.”
Of even more interest to horror fans, Sheridan has been posting AI-generated posters for films that never were and should be, like Cannibal Quarterback and CoacHELLa, which are both witty and enticing. I’ve got to be honest. I would watch either one of these films.