GMLAB (born in 1970) is a DJ, VJ, Producer, Art Director, and Music Junkie. He’s also the 2022 Renderosity Artist of the Year. Truly, a renaissance man, GM composed the music for the video gallery (see above) which features 15 works from GM’s outstanding gallery. His PC specs are listed below for those of you who are PC enthusiasts.
This interview is a little different. We spoke with gmlab when he won the Artist of the Month back in March of 2022. We covered his background, working methods and advice to beginning artists. You can read the interview here.
For this Artist of the Year interview, we thought it would be interesting for gmlab to conduct his own interview (with our guidance). It's a creative interview that fits with his highly sensitive personal declaration. We hope you enjoy it.
GMLABS: I want to thank everyone who voted for me. First, artist of the month and now an artist of the year! It came as a surprise since many other artists are also good I was chosen as artist of the year. I'm super happy with it and this only motivates me more to keep going.
A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli. HSPs are typically highly intelligent and seek out opportunities to do deep work. Many HSPs are academics, artists, researchers, scientists, and technicians with high-level proficiency. HSPs are deep learners, and so enjoy going deep into their chosen subjects, and often gain proficiency early in life. Usually, when I'm in such a mood I get creative in my head. This way I can focus more on the thing I'm doing, but I can also lose my entire expression, which gives me a very relaxing effect.
I'm not only interested in graphic art, but also in producing music, which I have been doing for 30 years. I started as a DJ and made mixtapes and later I started expanding my studio into a big music factory. So I did my own productions and made success in the electronic music world and published many vinyl/cd/online tracks to record labels all over the world. Also together with a large group of DJ/Producer friends, we organized House parties on a small and large scale where I could show my VJ skills on large beamer-projection screens.
Some might disagree with what I'm about to say, but I want to give everyone a message about AI-generated images. As it has now become known, AI uses existing images over the internet where it is combined by just entering text and AI will search for an image. The question is about AI where is the line in Digital Art if it is made by a robot or by yourself, despite the fact that you use parts of the content creators who offer their stuff for us to play with it it is still not created by a robot. I'm getting sick and tired of seeing AI-generated 'art'. It's nothing but an algorithm used to create 'imagery' based on copying aspects of millions upon millions of actual artwork online.
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression"
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