Schwag Man
Video, 2026 · Unique
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About the artwork
"Schwag Man" follows a similar thread to "Shifting Bodies", moving away from portraits and focusing on people, movement and distortion. With this one I was pushing further into what I could do with the loops themselves, finding ways to distort and enhance them to give each one its own feel.
The song came together at the same time as the piece which doesn't always happen. At the time, I was experimenting with early hip-hop influenced tracks built around DJ scratching and the lyrics were completely accidental. I was working on an early version of the visual, heard it, and it just fit. I kept building both until they felt done.
Diego Torres, also known as Birddog (born 1988, Zacatecas, Mexico), is a California-based graphic/UI designer and AI artist working exclusively with AI-driven digital media. His practice explores identity, mortality, surrealism, and the fractured nature of reality, using glitched aesthetics to rebuild familiar forms into evocative, dreamlike compositions and loops. Constantly refining his visual taste after more than a decade in professional design, Diego pairs traditional design principles with tools like Midjourney, ComfyUI, and Stable Diffusion to challenge ideas of permanence and reality. His work has been exhibited at IHAM Gallery (Paris), Casa NUA (São Paulo), and Artcrush Gallery (Belgium). Most recently, he earned third place in Claire Silver’s AI Art Contest #8. Drawn to the unpredictability of AI and the fragility of existence, he pursues a balance between control and chaos while evolving his eye.