Matteo Milleri (Anyma) — Anyma / Matteo Milleri — AI-generated audiovisual practice

2022

Artists: Matteo Milleri (Anyma) · Year: 2022 · Medium: AI-generated audiovisual work — electronic music paired with real-time AI-generated visual performance · Substrate: Electronic music production (Anyma is one of the two members of Tale of Us); AI video-generation tools for live visual performance at major festivals · Place: Milan, Italy / Los Angeles, USA · Institution: Afterlife label; independent Matteo Milleri, working as Anyma, is one half of the Italian electronic-music duo Tale of Us (with Carmine Conte); his solo Anyma project began around 2020-21 as the explicitly audiovisual and AI-collaborative extension of his music practice. By 2022 Anyma had produced a substantial body of short audiovisual works — music loops paired with AI-generated figurative imagery that Milleri edits, animates, and integrates with his specifically melodic electronic-music compositions — that had established Anyma as one of the most commercially visible music-adjacent NFT-art practices. Anyma's specific contribution to this archive is the integration of generative-AI imagery with electronic-music production in a sustained commercial practice. Most contemporary musicians who have engaged with NFT-art have done so through one-off image commissions or through celebrity-endorsement releases; Milleri has built, over 2021-25, a genuinely integrated audiovisual practice in which the AI-image component is as substantial as the musical component. The result is a specifically electronic-music-video vocabulary that has had substantial reach beyond the specifically NFT-art collector community. Anyma's 2022 work coincided with the broader generative-AI image-wave and benefited substantially from Milleri's relatively early adoption of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney workflows for his image production. His specific aesthetic — neon-colored, architectural, often suggestive of dystopian cinematic landscapes — has become recognizable enough that the Anyma "look" is a specifically-named reference point in subsequent electronic-music-adjacent digital-art practice. Tale of Us (the broader musical project) has continued alongside the Anyma work through 2023-25; Milleri has scaled Anyma into increasingly large-scale AV productions including live-concert deployments. Lore Matteo Milleri was born in 1989 and studied music production at the Centro Europeo di Toscolano. His meeting with Carmine Conte — his Tale of Us partner — happened during a 2008 night out at a Berlin techno club, and the two have lived and worked between Berlin and Rome for the entire fifteen-year duration of their joint career. The Anyma project was specifically a COVID-period invention: with Tale of Us's live-DJ income paused indefinitely, Milleri began the visual-AI experiments at his home studio in Berlin. His brother Giancarlo Milleri has been the principal business operator behind the Anyma commercial scaling, allowing Matteo to focus on the production work. The Anyma live-AV concert at Coachella in 2024 was the project's largest single deployment. Sources • Anyma — anyma.art (artist archive). • Tale of Us — taleofus.com. • Afterlife Records — Anyma discography and AV releases.