echoless_spiritual_world, 2018

by Alexander Reben

PNG digital still image

2160 x 2795 px

About the artist

Alexander Reben is an artist and MIT-trained roboticist whose work probes the inherently human nature of the artificial. Using tools such as artificial philosophy, synthetic psychology, perceptual manipulation, and cutting-edge technology, he brings to light our inseparable evolutionary entanglement to the invention, which has unarguably shaped our way of being. This “art as experiment” allows us to understand who we are and consider whom we will become in our continued co-development with our artificial creations. Reben’s artwork and research have been shown and published internationally, and he consults with major companies, guiding innovation for the future of the social machine.

Among the first artists to be producing AI oil paintings, he has exhibited at Vitra Design Museum, MAK Museum Vienna, Design Museum Ghent, Vienna Biennale, ARS Electronica alongside IDFA, Tribeca Film Festival, TFI Interactive, Camden Film Festivals, Doc/Fest and the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. His work has been covered by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Fast Company, Filmmaker Magazine, New Scientist, BBC, PBS, Discovery Channel, Cool Hunting and WIRED, among others. He has lectured at TED, SXSW, TTI Vanguard, Google, UC Berkeley, SMFA, CCA, MIT, and other universities. Reben has built robots for NASA and is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab, where he studied human-robot symbiosis and art. He is a 2016-2017 WIRED innovation fellow, a Stochastic Labs Resident, and visiting scholar in the UC Berkeley psychology department.

About the Artwork

Thought-render fractal artworks are created by a collaboration between a human and a machine. Works from the series are produced as follows:

  1. A computer algorithm generates an adjective-noun phrase
  2. The artist thinks about this phrase while the computer reads his brainwaves and body-signals
  3. The computer uses this data to generate fractals from templates
  4. The computer searches the internet for images of the phrase, which it uses to create a color palette
  5. The computer shows the artist several results, measuring his brainwaves and body signals to select which he likes "best"
  6. The final result is rendered

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Details

File size: 8.4 MB

Contract Address: 0x495f947276749Ce646f68AC8c248420045cb7b5e

Token Standard: ERC-1155

Blockchain: Ethereum

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