From assembly lines (to webdesigner, music manager, business innovator, teacher), to service designer, to ....
I started work at 13 and my freelance hustle at 17. Following my broad curiosities, I explored many disciplines, roles, industries and cultures throughout the years. This page is a reflection of that learning journey and the work I did (and am doing) along the way.
Some newsfrom the blog.
“How to Wake up the Ghosts” – AI-generated film using CLIP+VQGAN
How to Wake Up the Ghosts is a project by Erik Peters and a collaboration between various artists about non-human intelligence and the ecological crisis. To support the soundscape and narrative, I created a 7-minute film using AI-generated images with CLIP+VQGAN and post-processing methods.
AI Ideation Cards [and 232% funded Kickstarter campaign]
The AI Ideation Card Deck helps designers, managers and innovators leverage AI capabilities available to us today for social, user & business value. It includes 24 colorful prompt cards with 100+ example use cases across 7 categories to use during brainstorm or ideation sessions.
“Crop outs” in collaboration with StyleGAN2-ADA-PyTorch
Inspired by Matisse's cut-outs series and in an attempt to generate images that surpass the quintessential GAN-aesthetic, I trained my own StyleGAN2-ADA model on a handpicked dataset of abstract prints with colorful minimal shapes and managed to make it all work with the PyTorch implementation.