Ethereum

Khaos Awakes

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Painting with Fire: A History in GANs by Bard Ionson

Description

In this fusion of fire and algorithm, we witness the awakening of Khaos, the primordial void, where artificial intelligence stirs the embers of creation, crafting a world from the caprice of digital flames. Channeling the fire myths of the world, Prometheus, the Phoenix, the gods of the sun and flame. A story of technology brought to humans; to myths of destruction and rebirth. To be immortal; to be a god; it is always a paradox of fire and technology. The morality of the fire is always in question but we desire it and fear it. And yet it has changed us, we have learned so much since we first touched fire. We used it to destroy the wood, smelt the metal and build the chip. And now we teach and show the fire what we know; what we create and our reflection is there telling us our faults. The GAN is but a single neuron in a blazing star; a greater fire is coming. One of 200 unique pieces of art in Painting With Fire: A History in GANs. Exploring the history of generative adversarial networks GAN as represented by fire. https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire StyleGAN 2 - Karras, Tero; Laine, Samuli; Aittala, Miika; Hellsten, Janne; Lehtinen, Jaakko; Aila, Timo (June 2020). "Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN". https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00825 Paul Mouginot of aurèce vettier creates "then came clouds of smoke"|2021|https://superrare.com/artwork-v2/then-came-clouds-of-smoke-19199

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single subject

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square

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