Reflection introduces a new direction in machine creativity and generative art that the artist Pindar Van Arman calls 'Reflective AI.' How can generative AI art transcend algorithmic determinism and achieve pure emergence? The Reflective AI system leverages feedback loops and multimodal mark-making, reflecting on the canvas in realtime. Over the course of thousands of marks, Reflection thinks by doing in an attempt to present a synthetic embodiment of a creative thought process.

The digital component of Reflection is built with a unique long-form generative approach that utilizes inputs from the physical canvas. The system captures stages of the painting process, translates them to a digital format, and composes them on mint. All artworks are 100% on-chain.

Reflection seeks to show that generative art can embody true emergence, on-chain art can be highly detailed, and AI art can touch the source of creation.

A Sovrn Curated collection

neuro-consciousness

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

Decagon #45515

Pindar Van Arman 💎

the mind's eye

artonomous portrait of Snailbot, a bitGAN created from the merging of cryptoGAN (110110) & skullGAN (31/128). This portrait was painted by an AI enabled robot with 13,128 brushstrokes. It is a mystery why the bitGANs have suddenly begun appearing, though it appears that they are trying to tell us something important.


Snailbot 13,128

Quantum Portraits by Pindar Van Arman: Portraits procedurally generated by Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence.

Quantum Ganbrood

inverted octoGAN #715

We are only probably here. There might be an explanation for our universe, but if you look closely enough, if you dig into the fibers, there is solid evidence that things aren't real. Decoherence explores the part of us that questions reality. It visualizes impossible shapes, exotic dimensions, and alternate universes. If you, like me, sense that there is something more, this series can be a crack in the wall. I hope you will join this search for answers, even if we are only probably here.

Wave Function Collapse

We are only probably here. There might be an explanation for our universe, but if you look closely enough, if you dig into the fibers, there is solid evidence that things aren't real. Decoherence explores the part of ourselves that questions reality. It visualizes impossible shapes, exotic dimensions, and alternate universes. If you, like me, sense that there is something more, this series can be a crack in the wall. I hope you will join this search for answers, even if we are only probably here.

Mirrored Mobius

AI Portrait of Artur Sychov. 

Painting robot's AI interpretation of photo taken inside the Virtual World of Somnium Space. The robot used Feedback Loops and Neural Networks to complete the painting in the physical world one brush stroke at a time.

Artur | Somnium

artonomous portrait of Triclops, a bitGAN created from the burning of skullGAN (125/128) & robotGAN (011000). This portrait was painted by an AI enabled robot with 10,069 brushstrokes. It is a mystery why the bitGANs have suddenly begun appearing, though it appears that they are trying to tell us something important.

Triclops 10,069

SuperRare Series of animated GANs trained on Pindar Van Arman's 8-bit Art, collectively known as the bitGANg. 

SuperRare bitGANs

Quantum Seth

Portraits procedurally generated by Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence.

Quantum Portraits

Van Arman x Usher - Quantum Dreams is an artwork that was procedurally generated by observing atoms on an actual quantum computer. It features an AI created image of Morpheus, the God of Dreams . Van Arman has also teamed up with David Usher to sculpt a custom AI personality for the artwork. Talk with Morpheus as it pushes the boundaries of our dreams and creativity. - Includes 3 versions: lofi/1080p/4K

Quantum Dreams

Pindar Van Arman - SuperRare Custom Contract

Async Art

When neural networks generate human faces, there is a stage early in the process where ghost like shapes first begin to trigger facial recognition algorithms. These are a robot's paintings of those faces as they first emerge from its imagination. 

Emerging Faces

Feedback Genesis - AI Imagined Faces (9/10) - (3600x3600) - Twenty years of exploring AI art merge into Feedback Genesis, an ongoing project of which this is the first artwork. This multimedia digital canvas was created in collaboration with a robot that paints expressively and draws precisely. Feedback Genesis was created by dozens of the robot's algorithms as it reflected on its own progress and chose to make marks using either creativity or logic. The artwork itself is a record of the reflection. Where there are brushstrokes, the mark was planned by emotional neural networks. Where there are drawn lines, its aesthetic decisions came from procedural AI. All art can be understood as a mix of creativity and logic, guided by reflection. This is exactly how Feedback collaborated with me to create Feedback Genesis.

Feedback Genesis

SuperRare

AI Imagined Face #33

AI Imagined Face #70

AI Imagined Faces : On-Chain by Van Arman

The bitGANs are artificially intelligent beings that have begun creating themselves from GANs. You can find out more as the mystery unravels itself on bitgans.com.

tezGANg - bitGANG 1010

Pindar Van Arman - Rarible

Something has gone terribly wrong. The portal at the bitGAN forge unexpectedly opened to an alternate dimension and 1024 alien creatures came flooding through. It is unclear why they have come or what they want. All we know is that they call themselves the podGANs.

drifting sep7epod (311/1023)

shimmering sep7epod (205/1023)

Braindrops

Generative Art Born of Imagination, Logic, and Reflection.

The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity (Digital Edition) x/128

Early AI Collection timestamped on BTC Blockchain to 2018

The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity

lime octoGAN #41

a kilobyte on the blockchain - 
100% on-chain art by Pindar Van Arman

All art is 100% on-chain and reachable in metadata, but if you want to quickly right-click-and-save, here is all of them already downloaded in one place for you:   https://bitgans.com/news/all-bytegans-decoded


byteGANs

Postdigital 4-Cube

Decoherence by Van Arman

illusion of the void

Reflection introduces a new direction in machine creativity and generative art that the artist Pindar Van Arman calls 'Reflective AI.' How can generative AI art transcend algorithmic determinism and achieve pure emergence? The Reflective AI system leverages feedback loops and multimodal mark-making, reflecting on the canvas in realtime. Over the course of thousands of marks, Reflection thinks by doing in an attempt to present a synthetic embodiment of a creative thought process.

The digital component of Reflection is built with a unique long-form generative approach that utilizes inputs from the physical canvas. The system captures stages of the painting process, translates them to a digital format, and composes them on mint. All artworks are 100% on-chain.

Reflection seeks to show that generative art can embody true emergence, on-chain art can be highly detailed, and AI art can touch the source of creation.

A Sovrn Curated collection

deterministic dreams

Reflection by Pindar Van Arman

Reflection
by Van Arman
999 Works
0.33 ETH

Wednesday February 7th
12 PM EST / 6PM CET

Reflection by Van Arman

The byteGANs are a 100% On-Chain AI project by Pindar Van Arman. These mysterious AI generated creatures were inscribed directly on the blockchain and will dance there as long as Ethereum exists. Some have called the byteGANs dancing coins as they blur the line between digital currency and artistic expression. alien xenoGANs are an Ultra-Rare type of byteGAN of which no more will ever be created. There will only be eleven byteGANgs released by Van Arman, of which this artwork is the fourth.

Please note this lot is accompanied by the below physical artworks.

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alien xenoGANg

signed 'Pindar' (on the lower turning edge of each element)

acrylic on canvas, in nine parts

Pindar Van Arman 💎 (vanarman)

Pindar Van Arman 💎 (vanarman)

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