Luxury auction giant Christie’s is ready to organize his very first sale that consists exclusively of artworks made with AI an important art stamp of approval for the novel and ATTimes controversy technology.
The auction, entitled “augmented intelligence”, will be open to offering and being seen in Christie’s Manhattan Gallery from February 20 to March 5. Per Christie’s it is the first AI-Dedicated Sales once set by a large auction house.
The collection will contain more than 20 AI-ven-killed artworks from various prominent digital artists who are known for exploring the relationship between automation and human creativity, including Pindar van Arman, Harold Cohen and Alexander Reben.
Various pioneers of on-chain art known for their NFT documents will also deliver works for the auction, such as Refik Anadol” Holly Herndon & Mat DryhurstAnd Claire Silver.
“The auction redefines the relationship between art and technology and shows collectors human freedom of choice in the AI era in visual arts,” said Nicole Sales Giles, Christie’s Head of Digital Art Sales, in a statement shared with Decrypt. “From robotics to goose to interactive experiences, artists include artificial intelligence on their practices in many unique ways in their practices.”
The pieces at the auction vary in medium of sculpture and paintings to screens, interactive works and digital-native NFTs.
Among the documents that are expected to reach the largest sum at an auction, Pinar van Arman’s ‘Emerging Faces’, a series of physical cloths painted by two AI agents who worked together in 2017 to imagine human faces with generative AI and then and then to paint. The works are some of the first to have been painted autonomously by neural networks and are expected to be sold together in one lot for a maximum of $ 250,000.
Other works at an auction will come to life in real time. In Christie’s Rockefeller Center Gallery, a large-scale robot will be led by the coding of Alexander Reben more and more a fresh canvas painting as bids for the rise of the painting arts-worth the participants of the auction can participate in the creation of the work.
In recent years, both Christie’s and his archrival, Sotheby’s, have aggressive planted their flags In the emerging (and often lucrative) world of digital art. Both houses have organized numerous Crypto-Constructed auctions Since 2021, when Christie Sold an NFT by the artist for a record shift $ 69.3 million.
Published by Andrew Hayward
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