Bard Ionson enjoys working with tools that embed different layers of reading and understanding. Working with Generative AI hence comes as a natural choice. The media seduces with its potential to include multiple layers of images and bring them together through algorithmic alterations. In Alien of Venus, a bright luminous blue dominates the composition. From there, organic features emerge, such as leaf veins and holes. With this micro-organic environment, the artist reflects on the discovery, earlier in 2020, of life on the planet Venus.

As the title itself indicates, "AI Generated Nude Portrait #5" is part of Robbie Barrat's series of GAN-generated portraits of nude figures and among the first works ever tokenized on SuperRare. According to the artist, what is really fascinating about neural networks is how they can "misinterpret" (or possibly reinterpret?) human inputs as the reference images they are given, leading to unprecedented outcomes for the beholder to get lost into. In this work, if one wishes to delve deeper into the subject, there seems to be a plurality of uncanny figures subtly resonating with a bell-like representation of the Holy Family or the tight embrace Klimt portrayed in The Kiss.

Dense, almost as material as a tightly knit tapestry, "AI Generated Landscape Painting #4" pertains to Robbie Barrat's most surreal landscapes, created by training a GAN to produce a naturalistic view using thousands of landscape oil paintings as reference. While the initial results of this experiment were mostly realistic, with a neat separation between ground and waterfronts on the bottom, trees in the middle of the image and sky on its top, in later versions the neural network gave darker, increasingly confused outcomes. As in a bird's eye view or a picture made using a macro lens, this work seems to play with light and color as identified in nature by the fresh eye of an Impressionist. Rather than producing a recognizable landscape, the machine arranges these elements in a mechanic, more abstract way instead, almost challenging the viewers to find their own interpretation of it.

From a burning phoenix to a grinning Cheshire cat, from arcane Latin words to obscure numbers and signs, "Ab Uno Ad Unum" is Hackatao's own, deserved homage to the most intricate and enigmatic aspects of their production. "An alchemical journey into our art, capturing cryptic meanings," as they declare in the caption, this work is actually just the keyhole through which to peer at another dimension, an "elsewhere" pullulating inquisitive creatures engaging the viewer's eye with countless questions.

The art of David Young is a mirror of and to life. This piece, as all the others from the series "Learning Nature", exists in the romanticism of being generated by nature, by the human hands and finally by fate. That factor of randomness that makes it so real, so part of this life, so slightly or very unpredictable, so perfect manifesting in the puzzle of its different roots. Isn't this beauty?

Rah Crawford's "Millennial Ambition" is the good version of the American ads from the 1950s. Like an advertisement for the future, between technology and computer colors: the one of xennials is the generation with analog childhood and digital adulthood. But Xennial also means hospitable, welcoming. Towards strangers and guests. Towards aliens and cosmopolites. Globally, together, through technology.

As hex6c himself asserts, "O Snail" is completely determined by the quoted haiku by Kobayashi Issa, being the result of a balanced dialogue between human and machine. The poetic, verbal components of this work are translated into voluted visual terms by an algorithm designed by the artist, creating a delicate interplay between chromatic lines, layers of interpretation, and trails to be traced or followed over time - but slowly.

Among the first artists to embark on SuperRare and set sail into the crypto art seas, XCOPY has maintained his bold, unmistakable style throughout his whole production, using the immediacy of glitch to critique contemporary issues and attitudes. "Right-click and Save As guy" makes no exception: thanks to the work's witty title, the roughly traced subject is seen as an item to be collected, the figure of a generic "guy" one will probably download and make nothing of in the future."Why would I buy it when I can right click and save as?" reads the artwork's caption, clarifying how the work reflects on the very nature of crypto art.

The oldest piece on SuperRare, "AI Generated Nude Portrait #1" is part of a groundbreaking series Robbie Barrat produced using neural networks. The artist trained a GAN to portray nude figures using thousands of original nude portraits as a reference; instead of producing a realistic outcome, the machine "incorrectly" interpreted the data set Barrat provided, almost developing its own vision of a human body: a collection of folds and lumps of flesh. In this case, there seems to be a relationship between the eerie subject and the background, the work somewhat holding an echo of Daliesque tumultuous dreams.

With its captivating intermittence and straightforward message, "Andy Warhol" can be seen as a statement on Hackatao's production, and it is still used as the duo's profile image on SuperRare, which they joined early on. Simple and yet detailed, perfectly symbolic of their love for Pop Art, the work is a sort of contemporary animation of a series of silkscreen prints by Warhol himself, perfectly transposed in their own, distinct style. The GIF's caption directly addresses the viewer, showing how Hackatao's attentive observation of pop culture invites the public to respond with the same attention.

Le Falher emphasises the tension between the human artist and the machine, working as a collaboration through iteration and feedback. This work is visually striking, and makes links to the traditional art historical canon arguably making it more accessible.

The way this artwork was created, using a collage of fragments from google image searches is really intriguing. It creates an almost puzzle-like alternative universe, that invites the viewer to explore it in detail. I also enjoyed the abstract surreal quality it thus gets infused with.

Series: Structure from Chaos. 25i Oozing out the center of chaos, comes structure from the four pillars of existence. Harmoniously intertwined together, each with their own origin story. Aware of one another's presence, they all collaborate to create something unique to our existence.

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I love how this looks and feels. Like a plush Rorschach test.

Nature is a recurring subject in AI art. This landscape is how an AI would picture nature. It is an encounter between a human eye and a blurry generated reproduction of reality. What we are looking at doesn't want to be mimesis of the real world, instead it exists in its own world. As Young says "We know that there's not a human intelligence in the code, but still we anthropomorphize." Ophelia Fu has her own very style. It's elegant and intrusive. In this work, Ophelia animates some static art she previously made - the unexpected breaking out of this round shape form its core it is surprisingly comforting.

Known for its dankness, its ability to captivate everyone's gaze with a combination of striking, distinct style, and a punch line as title or caption, XCOPY's work poses the immediacy and roughness of glitch aesthetic at the service of sociopolitical critique. In "hello admin pm me," the viewer is once more confronted with one of the disturbing/disturbed characters the artist portrays, ending up being captured by the subtle play between the welcoming word "hello" and the subject's minacious look.

Almost a visual pun, immediate, clean. Minimal, possibly referencing first experiments in 3D animation.

What is certainly distinctive about Thato's work is the expressiveness of its geometric balance. Although minimal and mostly monochromatic, the artist's compositions have a profoundly dramatic quality, capable of conveying emotions and sparking reflection on the most varied subjects. From the simplest of wildflowers to the most dubious of theories, Thato translates reality in his own visual terms through primitive shapes and carefully designed patterns, always entrusting narration to the balance of forms and shades.

From an extraordinarily creative, energetic and positively engaging member of the community, a visceral vision hand-printed on paper with rubber stamps made by the artist himself. While somewhat reminiscent of a wound or a chasm, Mattia Cuttini's "Lo strappo" (the rip) can be seen as a witty reference to glitch and pixel art - or the gateway to an animated elsewhere.

In this work we see a flux of colors and soft moving images or, to be more specific, a complexity of images. The layers of these work bring a dense meaning to the viewer. As the artist states about the work: some stories say there are souls who dwell in its waters. The water is a metaphor to express the many layers of trained GANs used to create this work. It is fascinating how the artist pays a tribute to Robbie Barrat and his portrait model. The adding of images from politics makes the whole experiment connected to the real world. The viewer is left in front of a mystical maze, a place to witness or enter at their discretion.

"Satoshi Nakamoto - Decentral Eyes - Variant 03" reflects on the identity of who developed the Bitcoin Blockchain, cleverly combining the portraits of Hal Finney and Dorian (Satoshi?) Nakamoto with the abstract of the blockchain white paper and other excerpts. As in an ultracontemporary 3D collage, incorporating text and pixelated pictures on multiple moving levels, Coldie's work suggests that cryptographic pioneer and cypherpunk activist Hal Finney might be the face behind the name of Satoshi, him being the first person to receive a bitcoin transaction.

0xbull is active in the crypto art space since the beginning. He deals with environmental issues. His style is characteristic of what the crypto space likes to collect.

When I added Miss Al Simpson’s Modern Love to my collection about one year ago I wrote that it "Reminds me of one of Richard Prince's Nurses getting enveloped by a Clyfford Still." My feelings haven't changed. There is a long history of male artists anonymizing women through abstraction but Miss Al Simpson's work is refreshing because it does this without objectification. For me, the mysterious women portrayed in works like Modern Love and The Self Isolators have deep and complex inner lives. They are to be thought about, to be reckoned with, and not just ogled as one might with say Willem de Kooning's hypersexualized Women I. As with most artists, I think Miss Al Simpson's strongest work ends with a question mark instead of a period and these two works definitely fit that description for me.

Bard Ionson enjoys working with tools that embed different layers of reading and understanding. Working with Generative AI hence comes as a natural choice. The media seduces with its potential to include multiple layers of images and bring them together through algorithmic alterations. In Life is Green, Bard Ionson brings together painterly gestures, organic fibres, and a delightful combination of greens and blues.

In Quantum Fluctuations, Markos Kay brings to our attention the existence of the invisible. Microscopic particles compose the visual. Like strokes of paint, they seem to participate in an abstraction. But while the subject is unrecognisable to most, it presents the events happening during a proton collision. With this piece, the unending motif of the infinitely small appears to our eye through digital simulation.

Have you ever feared the blank page? With Tabula Rasa, David Young explores what an AI/GAN would create when starting from scratch. Using the smallest of data sets, he explores how machines understand the world organically. Artificial intelligence, often thought of as rational, is fueled by data selected by humans. From our unconscious, it inherits biases and develops its unique network of interpretation. With this work, David Young places the machine as a successor to painters in the Romantic era, whose emotions brought individual, aesthetic perceptions of the world. The piece's ensemble of organic lines and hues of fuchsia and orange reveal the machine's hidden pattern, offering viewers a unique aesthetic and emotional experience.

Have you ever feared the blank page? In Untitled, David Young explores what an AI/GAN would create when starting from scratch. Using the smallest data sets possible, he explores how machines understand the world organically. Artificial intelligence, often thought of as rational, is fueled by data selected by humans. From our unconscious, it inherits biases and develops its network of interpretation. With this work, David Young places the machine as a successor to painters in the Romantic era, whose emotions brought individual, aesthetic perceptions of the world. The piece's ensemble of organic lines and hues of purples, blues and greens reveal the machine's hidden patterns, offering viewers a unique aesthetic and emotional experience.

Bard Ionson enjoys working with tools that embed different layers of reading and understanding. Working with Generative AI hence comes as a natural choice. The media seduces with its potential to include multiple layers of images and bring them together through algorithmic alterations. In Alien of Venus, a bright luminous blue dominates the composition. From there, organic features emerge, such as leaf veins and holes. With this micro-organic environment, the artist reflects on the discovery, earlier in 2020, of life on the planet Venus.

In Generated #29, abstraction lies in the repetition of a black and white motif, which grows into four directions for an increased optical effect. From rough edges to smudges, the computer-made geometries of Mattia Cuttini show irregularity. These details tell of the artist’s interest in initiating a dialogue between the digital and the analogue. He creates algorithmic visuals, which he then transposes via a printmaking technique. Prints betray the human hand with their imperfections and ink marks. The result is a piece that can only exist through the coexistence of craftsmanship and computational skills.

In Generated #2 - Frame 1, abstraction lies in the repetition of a purple and green motif, which grows into four directions for increased optical effect. The aesthetic and colour palette belies a digital process. Yet, rough edges and smudges bring irregularity to the computer-made geometries. These details tell of the artist’s interest in initiating a dialogue between the digital and the analogue. He creates algorithmic visuals, which he then transposes via a printmaking technique. Prints betray the human hand with their imperfections and ink marks. The result is a piece that can only exist through the coexistence of craftsmanship and computational skills.

In Landscape 7, no shapes bear recognition and only the title hints to the landscape's presence. Against a dark background, vibrant colours of red, pink, green and pearl oscillate. The vibrancy and flow of the lines remind of reflections of lights on the water. Yet such a blurry vision can only push the limits of our imagination. This work tells of Robbie Barrat's use of artificial intelligence as a media. The artist explores the potential for misinterpretations and accidents when working with Generative Adversarial Networks. His practice starts with a representational image that he alters through algorithms until he reaches his signature.

In Landscape 4, nothing is recognisable. Such a blurry vision can only push the limits of our imagination. Yet the colour palette hints to the depiction of a hillside, with yellow grass and bottle-green bushes. The work presents Robbie Barrat’s use of artificial intelligence as a media. The artist explores the potential for misinterpretations and accidents when working with Generative Adversarial Networks. His practice starts with a representational image that he alters through algorithms until he reaches his signature aesthetic.