Glenn Marshall combined GIF loops and generative neural styling to cover the loops in flowing, pixelating, continuous plasma. I like the combination of order and disorder that each GIF shows. In one way, the GIFs obviously show a human head, but they are filled with noise. What is so satisfying is that the pixelation and graininess that usually comes from such noise creates moving, flowing patterns in the pieces. There is no write up for these pieces other than that they are a neural style transfer. I assume that Marshall started with the flowing GIFs and a reference image with noise or scales and applied a neural style transfer to it. So, the GIF loops transformed to take on the style of the reference image. Marshall's touch is in how he trained the neural network and which GIF loop he choose to work with. Marshall used the computer to build off of his own work. The computer created a derivative, not an entirely new piece.
Neural GIF Loops by Glenn Marshall (2018)