Miller has been using generative processes long before the AI boom began in the early-2020s. The 28-year-old discovered digital art as a teenager through his curiosity in coding. He taught himself to make interactive websites, and “from there I fell into the rabbit hole of digital art, and tried to find my own language and style,” he says. Many digital artists are, quite rightly, threatened by the recent rise of generative art, but Miller is thrilled by it. “It’s exciting and infinitely inspiring, because I treat it as an image-processing tool,” he says. “For me, it’s kind of like a really good version of Photoshop. I use it to modify and experiment, and that’s where I see its potential.”
Even though a lot of his process occurs in the digital realm, the work usually surfaces in a physical form, whether that’s as a live show, immersive installations or a bound object. Perhaps what ties all of Miller’s work together are blurred lines—not just between the physical and digital, but reality and fiction; beauty and fear; dreams and nightmares. In doing so, Miller encourages us to question our perception of the world we move through—to find beauty or uncanniness in the forgotten corners of our everyday lives, too.
