David Szauder
David Szauder is a Hungarian media artist, curator and computer scientist who has worked in digital art for about 20 years. Since the early 2020s he has made surreal, theatrical, collage-like images and short videos with generative AI, building each in Midjourney and finishing in Photoshop, as My Modern Met and press profiles describe. His Instagram, @davidszauder, is a verified account of about 1.65 million followers where he posts his AI works; he also teaches AI courses at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, has shown at Ars Electronica and the Ludwig Museum, and published the monograph Glitches and Glory (Gestalten, 2025).
- Last updated
- 8 November 2026
- Nature
- Human-First
- Niche
- Art
Summary
About David Szauder
David Szauder is a Hungarian media artist, curator and computer scientist who has worked in digital art for about 20 years. Since the early 2020s he has made surreal, theatrical, collage-like images and short videos with generative AI, building each in Midjourney and finishing in Photoshop, as My Modern Met and press profiles describe. His Instagram, @davidszauder, is a verified account of about 1.65 million followers where he posts his AI works; he also teaches AI courses at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, has shown at Ars Electronica and the Ludwig Museum, and published the monograph Glitches and Glory (Gestalten, 2025).
The persona bible
How David Szauder is made
Midjourney then Photoshop
Collects textures and anatomical drawings, builds each image in Midjourney step by step by adjusting lighting, pose, colour and camera angle, then finishes it in Photoshop.
mymodernmet.com ↗Own code before AI
His Failed Memories series from 2013 used image tools he coded himself, in a feedback process loosely like how AI is trained, before he took generative AI seriously after a 2022 Ludwig Museum installation.
printmag.com ↗“AI represents the digital collage technique I previously used, but with fewer technical problems”
Followers
Followers across platforms
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · only public profile counts
Total followers
1.73M2 platforms · each account counted once
Follower growth
Audience over time
Daily readings · all platforms combined
- 30-day change
- Needs more readings
- 90-day change
- Needs more readings
- Avg. daily gain
- +519all time
- Best day
- +5198 Nov 2026
Social media metrics
How the posts perform
Engagement rate
0.93%of followers
Against Modash's range for Mega creators, with 1M+ followers.
Median of 3 posts' likes + comments ÷ followers. Instagram keeps shares and saves private, so they are left out.
Avg. likes per post
15KAvg. comments per post
2541 comment per 59.1 likes
Avg. views per video
543KVideos, reels and shorts only
Posting frequency
0.7 / weekLast posted
7 days ago2 Nov 2026 · Reel
Ratios
Measured from the recent posts, not estimated.
- Likes-to-comments
- 59 : 1
- Average likes ÷ average comments
- Views-to-followers
- 33%
- Average video views ÷ Instagram followers
Best-performing recent posts Top 3 of the last 9, by interactions
Based on the last 9 posts (16 Aug – 2 Nov) · updated 7 Nov 2026. Fewer than 3 posts in 90 days shows “Not enough recent posts” instead of these numbers.
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