Episode 5: GENESIS Artist- Bard Ionson

Bard Ionson approaches his art with the inner drive of an artist equipped with the raw skill of a computer hacker.  An experienced programmer, he trains AI with thousands of images, creates complex models and schema to manipulate his images, incorporates viewer-participation through micro-payments and utility and, like a modern day Da Vinci and his cryptex, Bard embeds hidden messages within his art for those with the skill and drive to find them. 

Bard is one of Mint Gold Dust's eight Genesis artists who are each in the process of creating digital art pieces centered around the theme of 'gold dust'.