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‘Intertwined Intelligences’: Art exhibition brings artificial intelligence and NFTs together
1 / 9A new AI-NFT art exhibition titled 'Intertwined Intelligences' explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity; Tiny_Networks_of Everything by Sofia Crespo. (Source: PR Handout)
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2 / 9Featuring six artists pioneering AI -- Pindar Van Arman, David Young, Scott Eaton, Harshit Agrawal, Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick from Entangled Others Studio – the exhibition is ongoing till August 20, 2021 on Terrain.art, a blockchain-powered online platform that focuses on art from South Asia; Latent Landscapes 3 by Harshit Agrawal. (Source: PR Handout)
3 / 9Curated by Harshit Agrawal, the show is a step towards building an ecosystem for artists practicing newer forms of art including generative art, neural art, machine-learning, AI-assisted art and aims to serve as a stimulant for engaging with critical questions about the kind of future the world of art ought to create via such technologies; Sarah_15416 by Pindar Van Arman (Source: PR Handout)
4 / 9The artworks "symbolise the essence of a natively digital future, one in which our natural selves are intricately intertwined with a human-machine of the digital world," said the gallery; Sam_15468 by Pindar Van Arman (Source: PR Handout)
5 / 9Aparajita Jain, Founder at Terrain.art and Co-Director at Nature Morte who showcased Al show at Nature Morte in August 2018 in Delhi, titled Gradient Descent, said that AI has evolved exponentially since the show in 2018. "We are proud to follow the journeys of the Artificial Intelligences as well as these supremely gifted artists. I am in awe of the sophistication in the works and I love the potential of how interactive they can be! We are presenting 3D creatures that resemble life forms but generated through algorithms, and the augmented reality feature allows viewers to truly engage with these digitally native creatures. We are even exhibiting portraits that have been painted by trained robots. It goes to show the limitlessness of artistic creativity," she said; Humanity (Fall of the Damned), Second State by Scott Eaton (Source: PR Handout)
6 / 9Interestingly, the art produced is digital in nature, and is available as NFTs and physical works; Lexy_20200 by Pindar Van Arman (Source: PR Handout)
7 / 9“Human existence and digital technologies are no longer separable. Our lives are deeply intertwined within a web of technology, which itself is rapidly cultivating an intelligence of its own, seeded by human intelligence and mined data, added Jain; Latent Landscapes 4 by Harshit Agrawal (Source: PR Handout)
8 / 9"As we transition to a world of digitally native beings, all aspects of our lived experience are transforming,” noted Harshit Agrawal, the curator of the show; Glided Mechanical Gripper Beetle GIF screenshot (Source: PR Handout)
9 / 9“Each artist uses AI to imagine alternate realities of common natural subjects, themes that might be considered passé in mainstream art today, but here re-imagined and re-interpreted through the lens of AI. It is as if they are building a new, digital reality through these essential genres, asking the viewer to balance their own deep rooted understanding of the natural world and the uncanny departures introduced by AI,” added Agrawal; b63n_014627,1___2020_11_12_18_17_46___c by David Young (Source: PR Handout)
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