EIP: When did you first start using AI for your art and what was your introduction? What was your initial inspiration into the AI art world?
SAMAR: My embrace of AI emerged from a delicious paradox – physical limitations pushing me toward digital liberation. After years of crafting immersive installations with an almost obsessive tactility, health challenges and breast cancer forced a pivot in my artistic practice, teaching me to find beauty in mutation and imperfection as well as seek new digital artistic expression tools. The emergence of universe-building across physical and digital worlds and Web3 furthered my gravitation toward using AI, transforming it from mere computational tool into a digital djinn.