# How I (almost) created a new form of art using AI

*It was so close*

By [Nahiko's Bookmarks](https://paragraph.com/@nahiko) · 2024-10-20

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Hi Pals !

I wrote this last week:

> Zima approaches. Every day I grow more tired.

Well it approached so fast, I had to delay the drop to October 31st 😂

Tough decision, but your support has been amazing ❤

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/15389195227412b991d5bc845b56faee.webp)

Today I show you **how I (almost) created a new form of art, using AI** 🖼

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How it all started
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April 2023, I just released "_CBDC Airdrop_",

an NFT that changes if you look away (switch tab or minimize).

I wanted to include more context inside the code,

**so I made the code itself tell a story 👇**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/88fad08954cd0ab875195c1f6d344880.png)

That was the start of Zima.

Why not make the code the art itself ?

GENIUS, No one else has done this, I'm sure! 🙂

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b162362d190c07b869bfa0759d680519.png)

The Disillusion
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8 Billion people on earth, you bet someone did. 😂

Nerds at MIT, etc. have been writing poems with code for a while.

here are a few examples:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/132c9fd7283c6c0780c7f7c03a57d3ac.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3dbb8c6735946f62b3498aabeb0680f1.png)

But I have something they didn't.

**AI** ✨

What if I told an AI:

_"You come from a land, where only Javascript is spoken, write a poem for me."_

Now that's unique !

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5f4d03478103117f6155325d3b0876a8.gif)

A New form of art ?
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So together with Llama 3, Claude Sonnet, Mixtral and GPT-4.

I wrote 32 code poems.

Each telling a story using a different technique from the web.

Example of this collaboration for a _Temporal Dead Zone_ poem _(aka TDZ: like trying to call a phone number that doesn't exist yet)_ 👇

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2482c17d9dcdd2e484802d706f89b9c1.png)

One of the many prompts I used to create the poems

Code poems don't belong on paper.

They belong in a computer.

NFTs bring code poems back to their **rightful place.**

The art is not the code, it's not the output, it's **everything together.**

A few iterations later, back and forth, collaborating, and **TADAA !**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1adf5a757bc8aaeb38c9523ce6556e20.gif)

_Temporal Dead Zone is used here to highlight how love needs to be declared before getting an answer._

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Zima by Nahiko -> Dropping October 31st

See you next week ✌

Nahiko

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