An Art Exhibition on AI Secured by NFTs

Terrain.art, a blockchain-based digital platform that focuses on South Asian art, hosted Intertwined Intelligences, an exhibition showcasing contemporary works that push the boundaries of our understanding of art. It features the work of six artists – Pindar Van Arman, David Young, Scott Eaton, Harshit Agrawal, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick – pioneers of “the art of AI” and was organized by Agrawal. Artworks, secured on blockchain using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are a first step towards building an ecosystem for artists practicing new art forms, including generative art, neural art, machine learning, and AI-assisted art, says the Gallery.

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“AI has evolved exponentially since the show in 2018. We feature 3D creatures that look like life forms but are generated by algorithms, and the augmented reality feature allows viewers to truly interact with these creatures. digitally native, ”explains Aparajita Jain, founder of Terrain. .art, and co-director of the Nature Morte Gallery in Delhi, which presented Al’s first exhibition in India in August 2018. Agrawal explains that each artist has used AI to imagine alternate realities of common natural subjects, themes that could be considered “past” in the mainstream. art today, but have been redesigned and reinterpreted.

Sarah_15146 by Pindar Van Arman
(Terrain.art)

Artists add their own creative dimensions to what can roughly be called “the art of AI”. Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick from Entangled Others Studio train their AI on hundreds of insects to imagine new insect creatures, generating new 3D shapes and functional descriptions of their different body parts. These insects are not simply a recreation of their natural counterparts, but rather an artificial life imagined and created purely digitally by the “mind” of an AI, guided by human artists.

Meanwhile, Scott Eaton creates visually magnetic abstract human forms. He achieves this by training his AI and machine to learn the essence of human skin and lighting from his own photographic works and apply them to abstract figures he sketches. Pindar Van Arman combines multiple forms of AI to mimic his portrait style, while still eagerly awaiting the transformation AI is able to execute through feedback loops.

Unnamed work by David Young
(Terrain.art)

David Young forces his AI to a minimum of data in the form of photographs he takes of flowers at the time of flowering. He then manipulates the AI ​​results with his own generative (non-AI) algorithms to tap into the understanding of the aesthetics of his AI.

Humanity (Fall of the Damned) Second State by Scott Eaton
(terrain.art)

Sofia Crespo works with datasets of labeled drawings of various life forms found in nature to imagine new representations using her AI. It then probes these generations from the prism of scientific research. Harshit Agrawal works with the traditional theme of landscapes to blur the lines between digitally imagined and natural realities. He allows his AI to imagine compositions of dreamlike landscapes, non-standard but familiar, to which he adds subtle but realistic movements.

Ladybug with golden mechanical clip by Feileacan McCormick
(Terrain.art)

Intertwined Intelligences is on view on Terrain.art until August 20.

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