--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: BT, 1984 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd36b5617b971f709/698a21bc22fb855fa3e2d0d1/TIMEPieces_Slice_of_TIME_1984_BT_wb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jan 26, 2022 # BT, 1984 by [TIMEPieces Staff](/author/timepieces-staff/) ## TIMEPieces Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Video: Our Silent Face \[1984\] by BT ## Artist Statement **Title:** Our Silent Face \[1984\] **Year:** 1984 The image was created using a hand made training set and Open AI diffusion and VQGAN/ Clip algorithm notebook. The music references a beautiful (and turbulent) year in the world in an idealized and kind of “what it felt like”. It was a formative year that yielded some of my favorite art, music and films. This is kind of like remembering a past like a polaroid, a blurry version of a complex sense memory. [@BT](https://twitter.com/BT "undefined") _BT invited_ [_REO_](https://time.com/collection/slices-of-time/6141262/reo-2084/ "undefined") _to TIMEPieces. Their work is inspired by the year 1984\._  Slices of TIME - 1984 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/slices-of-time/6141261/bt-1984/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/slices-of-time/6141261/bt-1984/"},"headline":"BT, 1984","datePublished":"2022-01-26T00:53:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:59:34.482Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/slices-of-time/6141261/bt-1984/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd36b5617b971f709/698a21bc22fb855fa3e2d0d1/TIMEPieces_Slice_of_TIME_1984_BT_wb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIMEPieces Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/timepieces-staff/"}],"creator":"TIMEPieces Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd36b5617b971f709/698a21bc22fb855fa3e2d0d1/TIMEPieces_Slice_of_TIME_1984_BT_wb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/slices-of-time/6141261/bt-1984/","name":"BT, 1984"}}]}] ```