A evolução das orquídeas by Sofia Crespo and HOLLY
Orchidaceae are an ever-evolving, mutating, and generative family of flowering plants. Meditating upon this evolution we explore the neural expressions of orchid essence, entangling with their cross-pollination of features, details and adaptions: a bustling, rich torrent of diversity and exuberance.
View the work at https://foundation.app/@sofiacrespo/foundation/85037
Stolie Under and Parasoi by Alina Trifan, from the collection AI-Log
"AI-Log" is an immersive project that explores the realms of memory, place, and the allure of the apocalypse. Its genesis lies in a captivating dialogue between myself and AI, a journey of mutual understanding and shared perspectives.
The collection interweaves photographs sourced from various years and countries that photographer Alina Trifan has called home. The resulting compositions resonate with a nostalgic undercurrent, evoking both the sentiments of bygone eras and the interconnections of our present reality. “AI-Log” unfurls like a diary, with entries that oscillate between personal anecdotes and contemplations on universal themes, notably the elusive nature of memory. Through this process, Trifan describes not only revisiting past experiences but also forging new ones.
An unexpected facet of “AI-Log” manifests as a chronicle of events preceding the apocalypse. This element emerged organically during my interactions with AI, perhaps influenced by my state of mind or the melodies that serenaded me. While the imagery often alludes to disintegration and decay within nature, there remains an exaltation of beauty and a profound sense of curiosity for what may lie beyond. This sentiment is particularly palpable in the depictions of human figures who valiantly confront destruction with open arms.
To commence the creative process, Trifan meticulously organized her extensive archive of photographs into categorized folders, considering factors such as year, location, subject matter (nature, people), and a particularly evocative folder entitled "Magic," housing images that exude a textural quality capable of imbuing the final compositions with an air of enchantment. Guided by intuition and a desire to generate fresh narratives, she carefully selected pairs of photographs. Employing the capabilities of AI models, they are then harmoniously blended these visual counterparts, occasionally augmenting the process with textual prompts to achieve the desired outcome.
Visit https://postphotography.xyz/ppp2/gallery/ to view more from the collection.
CHANSU CS02 by Robert LeBlanc
CHANSU is an abstract post-photography series which explores the interplay between traditional post-processing photography software and GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) technology by artist Robert LeBlanc. The project draws inspiration from the contemporary Japanese aesthetic and focuses on the significance of grain and blur in creating a surreal, black-and-white landscape. The result is a world of abstract imagery that blurs the lines between reality and imagination.
Visit https://superrare.com/series/0xd6c4f5a8172cad37328f90ec98cacd02c374ad62 to view the full collection.
Energy Portal #33 Pixel Pete by Matthew Stone
Energy Portals are a series of NFTs and paired physical linen canvases by artist Matthew Stone. The linens were displayed at an exhibition titled "A Portrait of the Artist in the Metaverse" at The Hole gallery in New York. The NFTs were displayed in Stone's own gallery, Magic Energy in Cryptovoxels.
Beginning as physical paint, the Energy Portals are the spiritual beings that have emerged from Matthew Stone's painterly digital paradise. They move easily between worlds and are also the portals that allow others to do the same.
About Energy Portal #33 - Pixel Pete:
This work is a portrait of artist & collector Pixel Pete. Pete collected 'Energy Portal #5 - Claire Silver' when the series was launched. EP #5 is a portrait of artist Claire Silver, that works from her Cryptopunk PFP. After the work was collected, Claire decided that she would like to own her portrait. I proposed to Pete that I make a custom portrait of his Cryptopunk PFP, much like I had done with Claire's punk, that I would then transfer to him in exchange for the return of EP #5 - Claire Silver NFT to me, which I would then gift to Claire. Pete kindly agreed and was excited to support the work ending up with Claire. I worked together with creative feedback and ideas from Pete to create this new work. Intuitively I had left Energy Portal number 33 unminted, from a series that ran until EP #35 when the series first dropped. I had a feeling I might need to add something, but wanted to indicate the size of the collection rather than keep adding to the total number.
Learn more about the collection here.
49/23 #061 by Gregory Eddi Jones
This collection represents a nuanced, visually layered reflection on how old technology gives way to new, and brings forward questions about how we may reckon with such a radical shift in our understanding of what photography can be in the 21st century. “49/23” is digital collage series that blends AI-generated images over vintage photography magazine pages, building a conceptual bridge between photography’s past and future while exploring the disruptions posed by AI toward photographic tradition. To make these images, AI imagery is produced by responding to the existing images and text of the source pages. They are then woven into the pages to produce intricate image/text interplays. The ‘photographs’ also reflect various core themes, including ideas of imitation, popular photography, futurism, and mechanisms of visual production, while often nodding to significant moments in the medium’s history.
Visit Assembly Curated to see the full collection.
Human Trials #1 (1Q12-Q14) by Rashed Haq
Human Trials by artist Rashed Haq is a collection of portraits of people who do not exist, created between 2016 and 2020 using an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. We live in a world of ubiquitous networked communication and generate a tremendous amount of data as many of our interactions are digitized from shopping and entertainment to socializing and medical diagnosis. Algorithms sift through this data to make sense of who we are, and assign to us a gender, ethnicity, age, education level, class, marital status, reliability as an employee, citizenship, entertainment preferences, shopping preferences, and even identification as a terrorist. This invisible system shapes our lives, often without us knowing. These can come in the form of what we can easily see or buy through personalization or recommendation engines, or decision engines such as whether we should be called for the job interview or if we should be fired for low productivity, or whether our mortgage application will be approved. AI often generates distorted views of their subjects as the underlying data can be incomplete, inaccurate, or biased. This collection of portraits visualizes this distortion by retraining the AI on a set of the artist’s original photographs produced in his studio, and inserting “bad” data in the training data set.
Visit Assembly Curated to see the full collection.
In Translation #3 by Claudia Pawlak
“In Translation” is a collaboration between artist and machine; A bringing-together of the past and future of photography and artistic practice. Drawing inspiration from the cyanotype work of Anna Atkins as well as artist Claire Silver, a machine-learning algorithm was trained to create a unique set of otherworldly botanicals, which were then printed as cyanotypes. The nature of the cyanotype as a direct imposition of object-to-paper, facilitated by sunlight, leads one to assume the existence of the object being recorded. Through digital intervention, the object is instead replaced with a facsimile - one which suggests existence, though it exists only in the print. Through minting the works as NFTs, the process comes full-circle: Bringing that which was originally created in the digital world, back into it. Through an intersection of art, technology, and the historic photography process, these images provoke the viewer to question the authority of the image-document.
View more from the collection at the Obscura website.
Don’t Look Back #17 by Anna Condo
“For centuries women, muses and models were facing gentlemen painters, photographers and filmmakers ... they have contributed to and elevated art, repeatedly and silently co-creating with their male counterparts .. today, albeit rather too slowly in my opinion, women artists are making their voices heard and visions seen ... I firmly believe they will enrich the history of art for the centuries to come .….. technology, as a fairly new medium, is one of our keys to change ... art knows no boundaries, no limitations ... control is just an illusion, so let us all watch the future of art unfold.”
Visit https://foundation.app/collection/dlb-a1111ac011d0? to see the full collection.
Youth and Mariel Boatlift Emigration from Morro Castle, from the collection 90 Miles by Michael Christopher Brown
90 Miles is a post-photography, AI reporting illustration experiment by Michael Christopher Brown, curated by Blockbird, exploring historical events and realities of Cuban life that have, since 1961, motivated Cubans to cross the 90 miles of ocean separating Havana from Florida.
For over 25 years, I kept a list of subjects to document but was unable to, mainly due to access or that access was impossible. While working in Cuba from 2014-2016, more subjects were added to the list with the assumption they would likely never be created.
Since 1961, not long after Fidel Castro came to power and after the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, every year thousands of Cubans cross the 90 miles of ocean that separates Havana from Florida.
In 2022, Cuba experienced its largest exodus since the 1980s due to an ongoing economic crisis, with soaring inflation alongside shortages of food and medicine.
The Cubans who attempt the crossing are incredibly resourceful, as necessary to the journey and as reflected in the rafts and boats often assembled from tires, random pieces of wood and plastic, household supplies, etc.
Visit https://www.airlab.co/90-miles to view and learn more about the collection.
Time After Vessels #74 by Sofia Crespo
There’s an ephemeral nature to diving: we can only capture one experience at a time: the synchronicity of all the elements, conditions, and creatures that together create that specific moment. With this series, I wanted to recreate that aspect of randomness and presence encountered when photographing underwater. Each photograph is perfect in its own way, despite imperfections, as it serves as a snapshot or testimony of an instant.
Whilst underwater there is a rush to visually absorb and remember each texture as future inspiration, to make the most, before returning to the safety of terrestrial life. I often spend hours after a dive reflecting on the visual patterns I encountered, attempting to comprehend the colours and textures that exist at various aquatic depths, my brain in turn creating an amalgam of these. These amalgam memories were articulated through custom algorithms and self-trained GANs, live generating in-browser a fragment of an irreplaceable moment.
Visit the Bright Moments website to view the full collection.
Written. by Linda Dounia
“Written.” by multidisciplinary artist Linda Dounia is an AI animation trained with ink asemic calligraphy on paper. The work is accompanied by a short poem:
And I, a wanderer on this temporal plane,
Find solace in your ethereal perfume,
A solace that transcends words,
A comfort in the vastness of the world,
And the ties that bind bodies at birth, enduring.
For in the heart of you, little flower,
Lies a truth too profound for words,
A truth that seeks to find its echo,
If you dare to listen,
In the quiet moments of a world too loud.
”Written.” was presented as part of the group exhibition Tomorrow & Tomorrow organized by Larsen Warner Gallery in Stockholm. The exhibition presented the work of 12 international artists utilizing digital and NFT technology to pioneer new ways to view the creation of art and subvert traditional expectations of art making. The two part exhibition highlighted a cross-section of artists in dialogue with one another, reflecting the diverse artistic expressions that are possible within this digital world.
Visit Linda Dounia’s website to learn more about her work.
“Been on in the game as long as you can wheelie your Schwinn”
“Puff ponies 'til I turn blue in the lips”
Rock Co.Kane Flow - De La Soul feat. MF DOOM — AI assisted music video by Ben Gillin
Artist Ben Gillin has been making music videos using artificial intelligence by injecting the lyrics into Mid Journey and then editing those images over the songs tracks. Mixing his seasoned ability to create imagery using these AI tools that have a cohesive visual aesthetic unique to how his own feelings about the musical works, we get a dynamic animation that feels perfectly suited to the tracks selected which is both nostalgic and futuristic all at once.
Visit Gillin’s YouTube channel for more examples and his OpenSea page for other works from the Rock Co.Kane Flow video (full video below).