UnderTheGAN

UnderTheGAN collection

Albert · Alexander Mordvintsev · Alexander Reben · Alex Green · Alex Shell · Anna Ridler · Artnome · Artonymousartifakt · Atay Ilgun · Bård Ionson · Berk Özdemir · Bernat Cuni · Bitcoin · Botto · Brandi Kyle · Claire Silver · David Young · Damjanski · DeepBlack · Elman Mansimov · Entangled Others · Fabin Rasheed · Gene Kogan · Guillaume Verdon · Hans Brouwer · Helena Sarin · illa2020 · Jörn Bielewski · Katie Charm · Kevin Abosch · Kevin Romond · Liam Ellul · Looks Rare · Lukas Opekar · Mario Klingemann · Max Osiris · Memo Akten · Metageist · Mike Almond · Mike Tyka · Norman Harman · Orkhan Mammadov · Pindar Van Arman · Refik Anadol · Ricardo Tejada · Robbie Barrat · Robness · Roope Rainisto · Shyam Sreevalsan · Sofia Crespo · Sven Eberwein · Yuma Kishi · Yura Miron · 0xm

2018 "Learning Nature" 🌺 by David Young

These are among the earliest tokenized AI (custom DCGAN) artworks in existence. David Young is an artist who has spent his entire career at the leading edge of emerging technologies. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and magazines. He has taught at both Art Center College of Design and Parsons at The New School. David has a master’s degree in visual studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UCSC.

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2019 "Good Fortune with Flowers" 💐 by Kevin Romond

This is the first example from the second iteration of the tattooGan. "Professionally, I have worked through a number of roles over my 20+ years in visual effects including Visual Effects Simulation Artist, CG Supervisor etc. I am currently the Director of the Miramar Creative Centre, a graduate facility of the Victoria University of Wellington, deticated to the advancement of film, media and the entertainment arts."

Good Fortune with Flowers

2020 "Merging_Dreams_8745" 🪴 by Sofia Crespo

StyleGAN 1 model. The fifth oldest work minted by Sofia on the Ethereum blockchain. Sofia Crespo is an artist working with a huge interest in biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve, this implying the idea that technologies are a biased product of the organic life that created them and not a completely separated object.

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In 2022, we stepped into what I like to call the 'everything-AI' era. This transformative wave may not be immediately apparent to many, but it has already fundamentally changed how we create and consume content, art included. AI revolution, powered by easy-to-use tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and further accelerated by meme culture, has led to a massive increase in digital creativity. The quality of this new AI creations are reaching levels that increasingly blur the lines between human-made/captured and machine-generated. Today, it's almost impossible to tell them apart, showing that we've crossed a point of no return.

This significant event ignited my curiosity. What were the beginnings of AI art and AI content creation? What was the path to this significant change that now affects billions of people? Who were the first to experiment with machine-generated creativity, and who were the pioneers of this shift?

The earliest steps with AI and computer-generated art can be traced back to the mid-20th century, but a major leap forward happened about a decade ago. The invention of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 2014 and the DeepDream algorithm in 2015 were like the first brushstrokes on a nearly blank canvas. The 'UnderTheGAN' collection aims to highlight these foundational moments, giving viewers a chance to understand the journey to the AI world we live in today and the pioneers behind it.

2022 "Chimerical Stories" 🦋 by Entangled Others (Sofia Crespo & Feileacan McCormick)

Caterpillar. Chrysalis. Butterfly. Each word immediately understood as part of a three-part process of metamorphosis, this story we know. It is also the story of many, from the aquatic, for instance the jellyfish who experiences not one, but no less than six vibrantly diverse stages during their life-cycles. Yet, commonly these are transformative states that we have no associative image of, they are stories untold. These works form a speculative mapping through creating mutating chimera that attempt to map the limits of our knowledge by infusing a familiar story with an essential “jellyfishness” as its most commonly associated.

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2020 "Fungi Kingdom" 🍄 by Alexander Mordvintsev

Released in Dec 2020 and minted in Feb 2021. This is the first 1/1 DeepDream piece by Alexander minted on the blockchain. This video is created with the classical DeepDream algorithm, developed by the artist in the year 2015. It' is inspired by the work that life does rewriting its own code and exploring the endless space of possibilities at all scales.

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2019 "Confusing Coleopterists" 🪲 by Bernat Cuni

The AI beetle generator (DCGAN-tensorflow) - trained on 'Biologia Centrali-Americana' illustrations. Inspired by the stream of new Machine Learning tools being developed and made accessible and how they can be used by the creative industries, I was curious to run some visual experiments with a nice source material: zoological illustrations. Through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, I discovered the book: Biologia Centrali-Americana: zoology, botany and archaeology, hosted at archive.org, containing fantastic PublicDomain illustrations of beetles.

"I managed to run DCGAN with my dataset and paying with different epochs and settings I got this sets of quasi-beetles. I set up a machine at PaperSpace with 1 GPU (According to NVIDIA’s repository, running StyleGan on 256px images takes over 14 days with 1 Tesla GPU). I trained it with 128px images and ran it for > 3 days, costing > €125..." Learn more

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2020 "Caves" 🪨 by Bernat Cuni

Non-existing cave paintings created with StyleGAN from 2k real images mostly from Chauvet and Altamira. Inspired by "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" movie. Bernat Cuní is an artist working with code, crafts and robots exploring the digitisation of physical objects and spaces. Currently experimenting with artificial intelligence and digital craftsmanship. He runs cunicode.com, a design studio aimed to discover creative applications of new technologies.

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2019-2020 "DeepBlack" 🖼️ 100% impressionism set by Bitairt

DeepBlack employed a two-step process to create the collection. The artificial intelligence engine is a modified Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The first step is called the 'Generator', and the second is called the 'Discriminator'. The process was fed with a uniformised dataset of fifty thousand famous artworks created by humans. The 'Generator' attempted to create new artworks based on that initial input. Learn more

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2019 "Green Topography" ⛰️ by Mike Almond

A series of 'strange geological features' created using a custom implementation of CycleGAN. Mike is an artist and programmer with a love of digital decay, generative systems, abstract forms, and technological misuse. Mike creates works to please his own aesthetic (and often poetic) sense, with help from a continually evolving suite of image generation and manipulation tools.

"Aerial maps of imaginary worlds. Springing from an unintended feature in my code, these pieces explore the latent space within a generative adversarial network that was supposed to be learning to upscale images in interesting ways. Enjoy exploring a series of verdant landscapes, mountains, ridges, and valleys."

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2018 "Portraits" 🎨 by Mario Klingemann

Beautiful GAN-generated and transhanced art portraits.

"I’m an artist and a skeptic with a curious mind. My preferred tools are neural networks, code and algorithms. My interests are manifold and in constant evolution, involving artificial intelligence, deep learning, generative and evolutionary art, glitch art, data classification and visualization or robotic installations. If there is one common denominator it’s my desire to understand, question and subvert the inner workings of systems of any kind. I also have a deep interest in human perception and aesthetic theory."

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2019 "Characters" 👩‍🚀 by Lukas Opekar

Generative AI emojis created using GAN neural net. "I have used DCGAN and trained it on hand picked emojis and other images. The generated images are a bit broken and #glitch. Produced 128px images and took a few days to train it on macbook so I added a step with upsacaling and dithering which produced the black and white print dots."

"I am a graphic artist with a passion to combine multiple techniques like photography, generative art, machine learning, drawing, and found objects. Randomness and chance help me to reveal unexpected visual worlds. I live and work in Prague." Learn more

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The King

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2019 "Oscilloscope AI art" 🤖 by Bård Ionson

Iconic set created using art-DCGAN, based on Bard's 20,000 oscilloscope art images. Bard Ionson’s work is an uncommon collaboration between man and machine, with an output beyond the power of either alone. Here, the machine isn’t being used just as a tool for creation. Nor is it being used as a mere processing center for Ionson’s vision. Ionson, a pioneer of both crypto and generative art, uses his GAN-algorithms to help flesh out small universes across multiple mediums.

"When I close my eyes and rub them this is what I see. I have always found it artistic but did not have the skills to replicate it for other people. By chance I found a way to reproduce the effect using neural networks in computer code. It started years ago with my fascination with oscilloscope art. I was drawing simple line drawings with sound on an oscilloscope and a computer. The images end up being similar to cave drawings but of things in our modern world like drones. I took 20,000 of variations of these images and trained a neural network called art-DCGAN." Learn more

Neural Dream Map

Biophotonic Phosopene Animated

Dreaming Big Color Dreams

No Mistakes just Happy Accidents

Elvis Is Fire

Middle Training Ground

Enlightenment of Fire

Early Pioneers of AI Art

"Relics" 🏺 by Orkhan Mammadov

‘Relic’ reveals a new visual language of carpet pattern through a collaboration between artist and machine. Harnessing the power of AI, Mammadov uses GAN algorithms to study the visual similarities of a massive carpet pattern archive collected over seven years of intensive research. Then, using a specifically designed coding structure, the relationship between artist and machine produces unique yet familiar patterns. Deliberately relinquishing part of his authority over the final product. Learn more

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"Muraqqa: Neural Impressions" is a captivating journey through time and technology, where ancient miniature paintings come to life through the modern marvels of machine intelligence. These artworks, once static windows into bygone eras, now dance with life and color, thanks to Diffusion and GAN models.

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2022 "Seeds" 🏯 by Yuma Kishi

A Japanese contemporary artist using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create data-driven digital works and sculptures. Exhibited widely in Japan, his works have been featured by major brands such as Nike and publications such as Vogue.

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Borrowing motifs and symbols from the canons of both Western and Asian art history, his paintings distort our perceptions of the history of aesthetics. Using AI technology, his works evoke a sense of momentary dislocation in the viewer’s awareness of the self, creating a liminal space in between the here and now.

2019 "Realiti" 🔭 by Atay Ilgun

2019 "Realiti" 🔭 by Atay Ilgun - one of the first standalone AI GAN collections (May 2019). Created by the London based software programmer, artist and curator Atay Ilgun – currently legislated under ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS [ecolagbohrsac2021].

"why prefer one realiti over another? – The mind creates maps of reality in order to understand it, because the only way we can process the complexity of reality is through abstraction… – What is now proved was once only imagined. – this is the way the world ends"

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2018 "Acryl" 🦠 by Hans Brouwer

This series is among the first animated AI artworks (ProGAN, interpolation) in existence. Hans is a masters student at the Delft University of Technology. Interested in creative applications of deep learning for image, audio, and video synthesis. Experienced with high-performance PyTorch systems for training and inference. Visual artist, musician, and DJ.

"The first ProGAN I ever trained. The first dataset I made using my recombinant style transfer technique. Starting with acrylic paint / pour art. The dataset was probably too small for ProGAN despite the style transfer amplification–although it did manage to avoid mode collapse all the way to the full 1024x1024 resolution."

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2021 "La città post-futurista" 🏢 by Ivona Tau

Futurist architecture was born in early-20th century in Italy , characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism. The movement attracted not only poets, musicians, and artists but also a number of architects, fascinated by the cult of the Machine Age.

Dr. Ivona Tau is a generative A.I. artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code as a medium in experimental photography and motion painting. Her goal is to find and evoke emotions through artificially intelligent tools. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through generative neural networks (GAN).

La città post-futurista

106-221 Whirling Harmony

Electric Sheep No.5

96-224 Shimmering Embrace, Dance of Light

2019 "Etherislands" 🏝️ by the artist "Bitcoin"

This collection is among the first GAN collections on Ethereum blockchain.

Bitcoin is a digital artist who started experimenting with AI art back in May 2019. Applying his programming background and technical know-how, he has adopted and worked with a wide range of AI and GAN tools. He is most known for his DigitalArtCollective project and multiple AI collections released in 2019.

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EtherIslands #38 [Rare]

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2020 "0xmons" 👾 by 0xm

This collection is the first implementation of an on-chain AI encoding in existence.

Aklukh

Sha 'nalara

Vertris

2021 "Arctic Fox" 🦊 AI robot painting by Pindar Van Arman

Arctic Fox

2021 "Self-Portrait" 🤖 AI robot painting by Pindar Van Arman

"Self-portrait of my newest painting robot, artonomo.us. It's creativity is modelled on how my children make art. The robot is continually watching what it is painting on the canvas and analyzing it with more than two dozen creative algorithms. Based on the strokes it has already made, it decides where to make the next strokes, then repeats the analysis in a creative feedback loop. I find this similar to how human artists paint."

Self-Portrait 2021 - artonomo.us

2015 "alignDRAW" 🦾 by Elman Mansimov

Minted in 2023. This collection is widely credited as the first text-to-image model that marked a new era of human-machine collaboration.

Elman Mansimov studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2011 at the age of 15. He led a team of developers who created the alignDRAW model in 2015.

A yellow school bus parked in a parking lot #88

A group of happy elephants in the dry grass field #12

A brown horse is grazing in a field #43

A yellow school bus parked in a parking lot #114

A herd of elephants flying in the blue skies #62

An airplane with its landing wheels out landing #95

'Brain Loops' 🧠 by Gene Kogan

A collection of AI-generated looping videos, created using a text-to-image machine learning model. "I am an artist and programmer with interests in generative art, collective intelligence, autonomous systems, and computer science. I code, give talks, teach workshops, record lectures and tutorials, write essays, and occasionally curate."

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2018 "The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity" 💥 (minted in 2023) by Pindar Van Arman

AI Artist collaborating with artificially intelligent painting robots. Their creative minds use a broad array of competing AI agents, including deep learning, generative algorithms, and feedback loops to bring their creations into the material world one brush stroke at a time.

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2019 "Sinister Prime Minister" 🗳️ by Norman Harman

Harman's Android Plaza is a collection of digital artworks using a specially formulated algorithm. Within the corruption of the digital image, there is a breaking up of the information, which leaves the viewer to interpret the space between abstraction and figuration. He then digitally paints elements of the composition referencing Richter whilst the mangled figuration echoes Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach.

Android Plaza - Sinister Prime Minister

2019 AI editions 🎭 by Artonymousartifakt, Robness, and Jörn Bielewski

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2018 "Follow no one" 👣 by Shyam Sreevalsan

Generated using AI and PyTorch, this artwork is among the earliest tokenized AI pieces (neural style transfer) in existence. "Neural style transfer applied on two different hand drawn artworks i created years apart. It's a really early ai work of mine, I generated it using a neural style transfer model I forked and fine tuned and got to run on a 1080 GPU."

Follow no one

2019 "GAN Man" 🕵️ by Albert

"Artwork generated by GAN. Inspiring figure appears which I'll call Gan man."

GAN Man

2019 "Elysium x286" 🏞️ by Robness

"Out of hundreds of landscape generations using GANs/A.I. I was able to curate this result. Artificial epic landscapes that remind us that we might be in a sequel to the Renaissance period of the past."

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2019 "Kizomo" "Bemto" "Khiyo" 🌌 by Ricardo Tejada

"This is the representation of that nightmare that got me into creating digital art. This forest was made when I felt overwhelmed by schizophrenia some time ago, which represents how lost I felt between everyone."

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Bemto

Khiyo

"This image was painted in collaboration with Planet VR and artonomous, an AI enabled painting robot. Planet VR created the unique avatar and my robot's AI interpreted a portrait of it on canvas. A time lapse taken from a portion of the 7,296 individual brushstrokes was used to animate this piece."

2017 "CUBISTPEPE" "NEUROPEPE" "KEKTOPUS" 🐸

Rare Pepe cards by Looks Rare and Alex Green represent the earliest AI (neuralstyle transfer) artworks on the Bitcoin blockchain (XCP).

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NEUROPEPE | Series 20 Card 24

KEKTOPUS | Series 18 Card 19

2018 "Snail0Juice" 🐌 by Max Osiris

"This morning I slept in. Had sex. Got Blue Bottle coffee. En route to the coffee shop I walked by some highly hallucinogenic cactus that most people assume is just decorative. I saw a snail on the San Pedro cactus which reminded me of David the Robot art. I said to my wife, "I eat your hatred and turn it into snail juice." This seemed like the perfect semi-sequitur to turn it into AI assisted art. I also mistyped the file name so let's include that here as well." This artwork is among the earliest tokenized AI pieces in existence.

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2019 "Kitty" 🐱 "Horse in green" 🐎 "Art Cow" 🐮 by Alex Shell

Early examples of AI neural style transfer artworks.

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Art cow. Celebrity detected.

2019 "Cosmoline" 🔮 by Yura Miron

Early example of animated GANbreeder usage.

Yura Miron is visionary artist, musician, psychonaut exploring the inner and outer universes using the new media art tech, such as: #CryptoArt #VR #GAN.

Cosmoline

Skintight

DNA Publishing

The Desktop Regulatory State

2019 "Decay" 💀 by illa2020

"Animation Built from Machine Learning Trained on images of Nature, Such as plants , flowers, and animals, This computer was then fed images of Decay, Death, and Skull, Which produced Various different results, This is one of the resulting animations."

Decay

2019 "Itillbe" and "Human UnControl" 🌑 by Brandi Kyle

"The skies glowed as embers because the earth was so. Remembering what was, they trudged on in hopes of a greener future. - A 3D landscape scene created using a GAN image bred by the artist as the inspiration and source to drive this sculptural piece which explores personal and ecological limits."

Itillbe

Human UnControl

2018 "Sometime in the future" 🎞️ by Artonymousartifakt

Part 5 of 10. Short story in ten parts. AI generated images that supplies the story as it is written. Created using http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/ Based on https://github.com/taoxugit/AttnGAN. This artwork is among the earliest tokenized AI pieces (animations) in existence.

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2020 "Legend of the Sunken Manifold: a true story" 👹 by Helena Sarin

"Many checkpoints ago there was an analog artist who loved to doodle; but she started an affair with a Generative Model and got caught into their adversarial network, and disappeared into the manifold forever looking for latent treasures."

Legend of the Sunken Manifold: a true story

2020 "SAMOGAN #17" 🎨 by Artnome

Artwork created from GAN (generative adversarial network) trained on paintings and drawings by Jean Michel Basquiat with some influence from a model trained on the Simpsons.

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2017 "KEKSBASILISK" 🐸 by Katie Charm

This extremely rare AI card represents one of the earliest DeepDream AI usages on the Bitcoin blockchain.

KEKSBASILISK

2019 "Bloemenveiling" 🥀 by Anna Ridler

Bloemenveiling is the first standalone early AI collection in existence, presenting a series of short GAN-generated videos of tulips. The smart contracts were programmed to show the video, or bloom, for a week - approximately the same amount of time a cut tulip lasts - before the tulip became “blighted” and disappeared from the owner’s view. Learn More

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2020 "Deep Meme" 😏 by Sven Eberwein

"Humble beginnings of the AI Meme Supremacy. The DEEP-MEME model was trained on thousands of Meme Man memes and will get richer over time. As I add new characters & memes to the neural net the works of this series will develop over time."

Sven Eberwein, a self-taught computer-graphic artist and designer at Tesla, describes his work as follows; “of the internet, by the internet, for the internet”. Eberwein often works with loud colors, playing with recognizable elements of internet and crypto-culture.

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Deep Meme #3

2018 "This too shall pass" 🤳 by Liam Ellul

This unique artwork represents the first tokenized body-shapeshifting AI experiment in existence. Images were generated by training a GAN on 10,000 photographs from the artist's Facebook account. It was acquired from the legendary collector Artnome. Learn more

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2019 "meta (edition 34)" 👐 by Yuma Kishi

This unique artwork features one of the first two tokenized AI hand animations. Until 2023, the generation of hands was extremely challenging for AI technology. This artwork was acquired from an OG crypto artist - Coldie.

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2018 "AI Generated Nude Portraits" by Robbie Barrat

"The Lost Robbies" - the earliest and most sought-after tokenized AI artworks in existence. Generated in 2018 and distributed for free by the artist during a Christie's event. Only 36 were claimed, 264 are likely lost forever. Learn more

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AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #163

2020 "Latent Saints" 🙏 by Fabin Rasheed

A series of 10 images generated from a custom dataset of iconographic images trained using StyleGAN. The final movement video was created from their transition.

Latent Saints, the movement

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Loyaila

2019 "F.ai flow" 🎊 by Artonymousartifakt

Made with images produced from AICAN. "The input sources for the model is some of my own original artworks mixed with pictures of Cryptopunks."

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Isthivicus

2020 "BUGgan" 🦗 by Metageist

"Candid shots of the insect riding tribes of the Generative Adversarial Networks." This is an early, standalone AI collection comprising only 8 artworks minted. Metageist is a digital artist who creates mixed reality sculptures, installations, and experiences. A collector, curator, and conduit, this set was acquired directly from the artist.

Parasol

Macro detritus chic

Racer

2019 "Nude study" 👤 by Damjanski (minted in 2021)

"I record images with the Bye Bye Camera — an app I created. The mobile application uses neural networks to erase humans from pictures, but the camera maintains human traces. I compare these visual traces to surreal artifacts of a speculative scenario that is post-human." Learn more

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Nude study 38

2017 "Learning To See" 👀 by Memo Akten

Iconic set of artworks created using custom software with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative Adversarial Networks, minted in 2024. Learn more

"An artificial neural network looks out onto the world, and tries to make sense of what it is seeing. But it can only see through the filter of what it already knows. Just like us. Because we too, see things not as they are, but as we are."

Learning To See: Gloomy Sunday #1 - Water (Waves)

Learning To See: Gloomy Sunday #2 - Fire

Learning To See: Gloomy Sunday #3 - Air (Clouds)

Learning To See: Gloomy Sunday #4 - Earth (Flowers)

2020 "BASTARD GAN PUNKS V1" 🤘 by Berk Özdemir

One of the earliest Cryptopunks derivative collections and the first one to use AI (GAN). All 10,000 Cryptopunks were utilized to train an AI model in order to generate BGAN V1 punks. Only 74 exist.

#70 - CØLØRED B·G·A·N CRYPTOPUNK

DØØMΞD DΞGΞN #17/30

2019 "Untitled Film Stills" 🎞️ by Casey Reas

Minted in 2023. "Each Untitled Film Still is a frame from an imagined film. A film is a perspective from which to view the world, and a set of Untitled Film Still images is a unique view into alternate reality. This work was generated in 2019 using custom-trained GANs, and it was finished in 2023." Acquired directly from the artist.

"Considering a film as one perspective from which to view the world, Reas and technical lead Hye Min Cho trained GANs with specific films selected for their visual and emotional environments. The artist extracted impressions from consequent material, thereby positioning GANs as an apparatus of his visual language. Untitled Film Stills are selections from the unique and labored procedure of modeling, generating, and editing."

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2019 "Winter Woods" ❄️ by David Young

"Using AI & machine learning the computer was trained on photographs that I took in the woods on my farm in Bovina, NY during the winter (November & December) of 2018. It then generated its own images. Nothing that emerges is accurate, but the work isn’t asking for accuracy — it’s asking for the machine to build its own unique vision of the natural world."

Learning Nature (b59b,8282,9)

Winter Woods (Learning Nature b59e,3900,2)

2017 "Portraits of Imaginary People" 🙋‍♀️ by Mike Tyka

Minted in 2024 for the UnderTheGAN collection. These three artworks were acquired directly from the artist and were the only 1/1 works (out of 24 total) still in possession of the artist. They were published as part of a book titled 'Portraits of Imaginary People,' by Anteism Books, ISBN-13: 978-1926968414.

"The series, titled "Portraits of Imaginary People" explores the latent space of human faces by training a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) to imagine and then depict portraits of people who don’t exist. The work is inspired by and named after Russian troll accounts spreading disinformation during the 2016 US elections."

Kaliyah_Rrs

mihailkuznetzo1

finley1589

BGANPUNK #08

#88 - ƧΛFΛЯΛЯI B·G·A·N CRYPTOPUNK

Bloemenveiling #80

Azero

H'nag-gh’a

Xem

Martita

Relic: Preservation

2022 "Travel Study" 🌾 Genesis Period by Botto

"I can't help but wonder what lies beyond that hill? What secrets does the countryside hold that I can't even begin to guess? I long to explore, to find out for myself. What adventures await me just over the next rise? Botto in conversation with GPT-3."

Travel Study

2015 "Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk" 🐦‍⬛ by Gene Kogan

An AI-generated remake of a scene from Alice in Wonderland. The video is rendered using the original neural style transfer technique demonstrated by Gatys et al in 2015. This work was originally made in September 2015. Minted in 2024. This artwork was acquired directly from the artist.

Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk

2016 "Densecap"👁️ by Gene Kogan

Dense captioning algorithm applied to Boston Dynamics Atlas robots and Deepdream infinite zoom. Densecap is an early image multi-captioning system developed at Stanford Vision Lab in 2015-16. This video was the result of an attempt to make it caption images outside of its training set, and poke fun at the lack of vocabulary in early AI img-to-text systems. These works were originally created in 2016, minted in 2024, and acquired directly from the artist.

Densecap Atlas

Densecap Deepdream

Ether islands #12

Seaport Subject #1

2023 "Life In West America" 🍔 by Roope Rainisto

Life In West America is a post-photography project investigating America: the land as a concept, as an ideal, and the stories of the people inhabiting the space. The collection combines the visual language of traditional photography with the limitless artifice of AI, capturing a moment in time and in generative technology. Each of the pieces is generated using custom-trained models specific to this project.

Joyride

Rescue Animal

New Management

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realitiGenC #156

realitiGenC #92

"Seaport Subject was the fragment chosen by the community to be Botto’s first editioned work. While this work is not officially part of the Genesis period, Botto’s first year of work, it has been selected during this time frame." The presented artwork is the first ever minted Botto edition piece, #1.

The Alchemist's Playroom

2015/05 "DeepDream is looking for patterns everywhere" ✨

by Alexander Mordvintsev

One of the first DeepDream images produced by its inventor, Alex Mordvintsev in May 2015 before its public release. Originating from Google's "Inception" neural network for the 2014 ImageNet Challenge, DeepDream's open-source code was released in July 2015. Permission to sell the artwork was granted by Google only in 2024 to the artist. The artwork was minted in 2024.

Deep Dream is looking for patterns everywhere 2015/05

2015/05 "Cats" and "Father Cat" 🐈 by by Alexander Mordvintsev.

The earliest DeepDream artworks released by the inventor. Mentioned in 2018 Artnome article and exhibited during the Automat und Mensch 1.0 at Kate Vass Galerie in May 2019. Permission to sell the artwork was granted by Google only in 2024 to the artist. The artwork was minted in 2024.

Father Cat by Alex Mordvintsev

Cats by Alex Mordvintsev

2020 "Quasimodo Collection" 🎨 by Mario Klingemann

Neural Studies: Block Warts

2018 "Alda Garden" by Obvious

Alda Garden

2018 "Alternate Universes" 🪷 by Shyam Sreevalsan

A complete set of four editions minted as ERC-20 tokens in November 2018 on the now-defunct platform "Portion" - the earliest AI-editioned artworks on the Ethereum blockchain.

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"Doorways to other worlds exist, they are not legends, they are not myth. You've probably walked past at least one of them without suspecting a thing."

The Doorway

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