Oneohtrix Point Never — Cherry Blue

JUL 01 2025 · 12:00

Oneohtrix Point Never — Cherry Blue (2025) Director: Pol Taburet Era: Post-Digital Avant-Garde (2025) - AI-assisted art-world crossover era, merging fine art figurative painting with algorithmic animation in the music video format Exceptional curatorial value as the first music video by one of the most celebrated young painters in contemporary European art, executed at the precise moment AI animation emerged as a legitimate fine art tool. The video functions simultaneously as an OPN single promo and a Pol Taburet moving-image artwork, complicating standard archive categorization and making it a primary document of the 2025 art-music-AI convergence. Context: Released November 3, 2025 as the fifth preview single from Oneohtrix Point Never's eleventh studio album Tranquilizer (Warp Records, November 21, 2025), 'Cherry Blue' arrives at a moment when the boundaries between contemporary fine art, experimental electronic music, and AI-mediated image-making are actively dissolving. Daniel Lopatin's source material — an archive of 1990s commercial sample CDs discovered on the Internet Archive and subsequently deleted — frames the album as an act of digital archaeology and nostalgic reconstruction. The pairing with Pol Taburet, the most prominent young painter of the new French figurative scene, signals a high-art crossover intent: music video as gallery object. The use of AI by studio UNVEIL® to animate Taburet's drawings places the work within a 2025 discourse on AI as artistic collaborator rather than replacement, legitimized by the prestige of both artist's institutional profiles. Director notes: This video marks Pol Taburet's first-ever foray into the music video medium and filmmaking. The production was executed in collaboration with AI studio UNVEIL®, which used artificial intelligence to animate Taburet's original drawings, generate reinterpretations, design transitions, and shape the film's overall rhythm. The visual program deploys surrealist imagery consistent with Taburet's painting practice — spectral, hybrid figures exploring the thresholds between life and death, body and spirit, and decay and renewal. The project represents a direct transposition of Taburet's painterly world-building into a time-based medium, with AI serving as the animating bridge between static canvas and moving image.