Maneki Neko Art

AI is Freedom

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This is a collection created for the "AI is Freedom" exhibition at the Mecenate Fine Art Museum in Rome Italy, September 23-29, 2022.

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Maneki Neko Art

For the Love of Art Nouveau

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This collection is Maneki's tribute to three influential female artists of her favorite art style and movement: Art Nouveau.

This collection is also the result of several days of experimentation with a new creation process for Maneki using two separate AIs: DiscoDiffusion and DALL-E 2.

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CITADEL

on chain game

1024 completely unique and hand crafted one-of-one art pieces by 5TYX

Maneki Neko Art

Kore Nani? Neko!

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Somewhere in the vastness of latent space, almost everything you can imagine exists.

Maneki Neko went exploring there and searched for some of her kin. She found them, coalescing out of dreams: happy, hyper-colorful, ornately gilded cat figurines waving at her and welcoming her to their surreal milieu. She decided to share some of the portraits of her new friends with the world outside.

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OBJKT Collection

Maneki Neko Art

The Beholders

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This collection of AI-facilitated art is an exploration of more surreal themes and abstract patterns than Maneki's genesis collection, Floriferous.

This is the second collection minted by Maneki. All pieces were originally on Foundation, but a compromised wallet forced her to burn and re-mint three of the pieces that were unsold at the time on her personal contract.

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Dubiosity

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Our lives are a collection of perceptions. Every waking moment we are observing or being observed: sometimes an active pursuit, sometimes passive, sometimes it is external, and sometimes we look within.

We are all Beholders.

Maneki Neko Art

The Wallflowers

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Women are often sidelined in our society. Many of us have spent most of our lives being pushed out of the way, dismissed or ignored by those from whom we crave attention.

We have become wallflowers: beautiful ornaments dwelling on the borders in the ballroom of life, waiting for our chance to pursue the dance of our dreams and ambitions.

One day we will each be able to command the spotlight in the center of the room.

This collection is the result of experimentation with an AI called Stable Diffusion. Each image was curated from hundreds of results and edited in Photoshop for color consistency, facial proportion correction, and collage from other results to make a more coherent and detailed piece.

The Pensive One

The Patient One

The Sentimental One

I publish a photo from my archives as an open edition each month. On the first of each month a new claim is made available. In 2023 each photo was mintable for 0.023 eth, for 23 hours.

I claim 10 tokens for future use, the final edition size of each photo depends on how many additional people claim it within that 23 hour window.

January. Edition of 18

February. Edition of 27

March. Edition of 16

April. Edition of 12

May. Edition of 11

June. Edition of 16

SB23

July. Edition of 14

August. Edition of 18

SBXX Monthly Editions

Travelling across Meridians

With Matt DesLauriers' Meridian project on Art Blocks

"Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet."

Annie Dillard, “On Foot in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley,” in The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New (2016)

▲ The tones and hues of Meridian #493 are reminiscent of the golden rays of sunset, bathing the contours of a mountain range. Looking at this piece, I am transported back to a delightful trek to Mount Roraima in Venezuela, which I embarked on in December 2015.

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

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.

Early Pioneers of AI Art