Cursor Generation
Video, 2026
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About the artwork
This piece looks like a familiar family photo: two parents standing together in soft daylight, surrounded by green trees. But beside them is a child-shaped figure made entirely of computer cursors — a body built from symbols of selection and control.
As the scene changes, the cursor-child grows larger and becomes an adult silhouette. The work reflects digital coming-of-age — how we grow up not only inside a family, but inside interfaces, shaped by constant interaction, choices, and invisible systems.
Cursor Generation suggests that even when we become adults, something inside us still behaves like a cursor: always pointing, always choosing, never fully becoming the destination.
Audio explanation
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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underscores much of his art, which often highlights the serendipity of algorithmic mistakes and the nostalgia of outdated interfaces.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.