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Painting with Fire presents a vignette of transformation: the evolution of GANs from 2014 - 2023 seen through the eyes of fire. Using 14 vintage GAN models, Ionson articulates the emergence of synthetic image generation. Ionson explores fire as the quintessence of humanity's relationship to both innovation and destruction, embracing the unexpected abstractions of classic AI as a distinctive aesthetic statement.

GAN (generative adversarial network) technologies were developed by researchers and programmers but then utilized by artists. Though the technology was invented to make the images as realistic as possible, Brd subverts this to use it chaotically and abstractly; the opposite of what the AI researchers had in mind. This project celebrates the innovators and artists who have brought synthetic image generation to life with models such as the aiCAN, DCGAN, Stylegan 1, 2 & 3, bigGan, biGAN, pix2pix, AttnGan and more.
https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire/
a Sovrn Curated release

Painting with Fire: A History in GANs by Bard Ionson

Progressing over years the GAN resolution grows learning training all is unclear. Not quite realistic new methods are found to attain photorealism, but what of the strange strange land of the GAN.
Channeling the fire myths of the world, Prometheus, the Phoenix, the gods of the sun and flame. A story of technology brought to humans; to myths of destruction and rebirth. To be immortal; to be a god; it is always a paradox of fire and technology. The morality of the fire is always in question but we desire it and fear it. And yet it has changed us, we have learned so much since we first touched fire. We used it to destroy the wood, smelt the metal and build the chip. And now we teach and show the fire what we know; what we create and our reflection is there telling us our faults. The GAN is but a single neuron in a blazing star; a greater fire is coming. 
One of 200 unique pieces of art in Painting With Fire: A History in GANs. Exploring the history of generative adversarial networks GAN as represented by fire.  https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire
DCGAN - Radford, Alec; Metz, Luke; Chintala, Soumith . "Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks"
Wasserstein GAN (WGAN): Introduced by Martin Arjovsky, Soumith Chintala, Lon Button in 2017, WGAN addressed training stability issues in GANs by using a different approach to measure the distance between generated and real data distributions. This innovation led to more stable training of GANs and improved quality of generated images.|Jan 2017|https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07875

Training Fire

Fire moves, fire warms, fire feeds, fire cleanses, fire destroys, fire is life, fire is death
Channeling the fire myths of the world, Prometheus, the Phoenix, the gods of the sun and flame. A story of technology brought to humans; to myths of destruction and rebirth. To be immortal; to be a god; it is always a paradox of fire and technology. The morality of the fire is always in question but we desire it and fear it. And yet it has changed us, we have learned so much since we first touched fire. We used it to destroy the wood, smelt the metal and build the chip. And now we teach and show the fire what we know; what we create and our reflection is there telling us our faults. The GAN is but a single neuron in a blazing star; a greater fire is coming. 
One of 200 unique pieces of art in Painting With Fire: A History in GANs. Exploring the history of generative adversarial networks GAN as represented by fire.  https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire
StyleGAN 3 - Timo, Karras, Tero Aittala, Miika Laine, Samuli Hrknen, Erik Hellsten, Janne Lehtinen, Jaakko Aila (June 23, 2021). Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks. OCLC 1269560084.
Sofia Crespo, "Neural Zoo," Crespo is known for her work focusing on natural patterns and biological forms created with neural networks, including GANs|2018|https://neuralzoo.com/

Life Matrix

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where it happened, a 2-min walk from Moulin Rouge.

Tin-Tin Tatouages

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crypto winter is coming to an end though.

rektivities

Decal by Hafftka

An interpretation of the Decal by Hafftka. A symbol of permissionless creativity. Series Twenty Seven.

Decal by Hafftka #39

make those unfathomable 100x returns to tell your mates about and they think you just got lucky (which you kind of did, but you also make your own luck).

get rich or die memeing

FIGHT NIGHT

Round 2 KO by OSF

Round 1 KO by OSF

1,989 Sisters is the first NFT collection from fashion illustrator @blairz. 

Every trait in this collection was hand-drawn or painted on paper, scanned and then layered through an algorithm to generate 1,989 women living on the Ethereum blockchain.

The collection includes a nod to ten of @blairzs favorite iconic fashion prints. No brands are affiliated, connected or associated in any way with 1,989 Sisters. The collection also includes eight sets of twins and one set of triplets. This was not by design, but a serendipitous accident as @blairz is a twin and was born in 1989, which was the inspiration for the collection name and number of Sisters.

For more information, visit www.blairbreitenstein.com/nft-collection

Join our community on Discord: discord.gg/sisters