Mina Amiri Kalvøy ☄︎

The GAN Metal Logos were inspired by the history and legacy of Norwegian black metal bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem. Having grown up listening to and learning about the somewhat dark history of Norwegian black metal, and after watching the documentary series Helvete (“Hell”) which recounts this history, I collected about 300 existing black metal logos to use as a dataset. These were then used to train a generative adversarial network (GAN) model on the online platform for AI software, RunwayML. From this dataset, a series of new, abstract, and illegible logos were generated by the GAN, which were later hand embroidered onto clothing.

Available upon request and produced on-demand, each embroidered logo is generated by the GAN and chosen by the artist, making each piece unique.