In collab with Jennifer Panepinto - We see ourselves in each other
Still, 2025
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This collaborative glitch-animation by don't Buy and Jennifer Panepinto presents two figures standing side by side, each rendered in their own unmistakable glitch style. They hold space for one another—two identities in dialogue across a shifting digital landscape. The contrast between sharp fragmentation and atmospheric distortion highlights the beauty found in glitch art’s inherent imperfections, where broken pixels become expressive marks and errors reveal unexpected truth. As the GIF loops, the work meditates on memory, time, and the delicate tension between permanence and decay, inviting collectors to consider how identity is shaped not by what remains pristine, but by what is transformed in the process.
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Don’t Buy is a visual artist who creates digital paintings, videos, and GIFs using artificial intelligence and mixed media. Embracing a moniker that itself subverts consumerist language, he approaches art-making with a hacker’s spirit – repurposing AI technology to explore the beauty of errors and the aesthetics of early digital culture. In his work, glitchy abstractions and retro graphics converge to address themes of identity and imperfection in the online era. “When a cold, mechanical machine makes a mistake, it becomes a little more human,” Don’t Buy notes, reflecting his view that technological faults can reveal human qualities. This philosophy underscores much of his art, which often highlights the serendipity of algorithmic mistakes and the nostalgia of outdated interfaces.
A participant in Fellowship’s AI art program, Don’t Buy has presented projects that encapsulate his ethos. Notably, his series 404: SELF NOT FOUND (2024) is an assemblage of AI-generated imagery probing our entanglement with digital identities and the nature of error. Through a mix of dark humor and experimental technique, he transforms mundane clicks and computer glitches into artistic meditation.