COVIDPunks

One of 10,000 computer-generated punks who politely comply with local personal protective gear regulations. Way to go, champ!

COVIDPunk #6656

Possibility Spaces are huge artworks created in an emergent series of calls and responses between artist and AI. 

The art explores the human experience as seen through the mind's eye of machine learning, set across twenty-seven diverse realms of deep zoomable images. Please dive in to explore the full zoomable images on https://www.airtists.com/.

This work seeks to position itself within the surrealist tradition, which has always sought to unlock the power of the unconscious mind to reveal hidden truths about being human. The mind's eye reaches for its own meaning so that perceiving the art is an act of creation. In keeping with the surrealist tradition, Possibility Spaces expresses the idea of welcoming imperfection, embracing glitch as beautiful.

The English language is made up of twenty-six little letters, but there's no limit to the number of possible poems that can be written. Creativity lies in synthesis into creations new, and never imagined.

Welcome to Possibility Spaces.

Possibility Spaces by Look Highward

Cathedrals are the fifth realm in Possibility Spaces and travel to sacred spaces for meditation; personal spiritual paths and modes of being. Populated by people in meditative and spiritual practices and poses; with peaceful enlightened faces; opening their chakras; with glowing-coloured auras.

The following artwork description was redrafted by an LLM from the output of another ML process; which used a service called SceneXplain; which is a script that can view a complex image and then attempt to describe it in words.

So everything in this description has been discovered by an AI process whilst gazing at the image itself; without any human text input or editing.

Some of the elements present in the description may not be in the image; as they may be AI hallucinations.

The descriptions may not be accurate or pleasing!

 They are; in their own way; an artistic experiment. They also employ high heat settings and other experimental steps.

Sometimes the editor LLM decided to make its own new chapter title; which I thought was funny; so I left it in.

Please do zoom the highest definition images yourself on www.airtists.com and make your own descriptions of what you find in there!

As the narrative eye of this vista roams; the imposing fortress at its heart stands unyielding; entrenched in medieval grandeur. A seamless fusion of edifice and environment; its stalwart turrets pierce the skies; the labyrinthine crenellations scribed into the landscape like an indelible echo of forgotten battles.

At the stronghold's feet; clusters of silhouetted figures stand; their forms pregnant with wonder at the intricate leviathan rearing before them. Nearby; a wheel of contrasting vermilion and snow heralds the archer's quest; its radiant; solar core crowning the arena's champion.

Upon the canvas' eastern flank unfolds a tapestry of evocative narratives; each branded with its unique signature. One frame is stolen by a fiery sylph swathed in crimson silk; her surroundings green with envy at her blazing allure. Another scene; sultrily muted; unfolds like a poem around a lady donning a rouge cloak; each velvet shadow echoing her solemn aura. In yet another scene; serenity finds its muse in a woman clothed in the purity of alabaster; a crucifix held in hands as tranquil as the pastoral tableau encircling her.

In the upper sanctum of the vista; an extraterrestrial ballet is played out; stardust and cosmic mariners waltzing in a celestial orchestra; the castle itself basking in their star-kissed illumination. Lastly; nestling in the corner; a technicolored tableau of an abstract rainbow unfurls; an ethereal jest bringing a ripple of light-hearted contrast to the resolute composition.

Brooding Montage

ORIGINS: The day before Valentines Day in the year 2020, just one month before a pandemic brought forth a travel ban that would crash global markets, artist Matt Kane held love in his heart for #cryptoart. The artist was spending those days creating artwork for what became Async Art's very first programmable artwork, "First Supper." Among his creative contributions to this artwork including his greenish skinned "Visionary Spirit of Creation," Kane collaborated with fellow artist Mlibty on assets for "I AM THE TABLE," an NFT that Kane claims to still possess. Kane explains, "This particular design went unminted because collaborating with Alotta Money made me extremely insecure about my own Adobe Photoshop skills. Mine were pebbles to his mountain. We were just getting to know one another through the process of this collaboration. In the Discord, I shared my dank design of stacked ETH coins, and asked if anyone with better Photoshop skills wanted to collab on the legs. I didn't directly ask him, not wanting to burden him as I knew he was very busy with CryptoVoxel commissions. My lapse to ask became all the more silly as we became fast friends as the First Supper collaboration continued. With no volunteers, I decided to leave that extra design out of the original table NFT for First Supper. Three years later, when Conlan and Nate reached out to me and explained the concept of Forever Supper, I instantly thought of this unminted table. I've always regretted not including this design in the original table NFT, but as I've come to learn in life, time tends to reveal greater purpose for our pasts."

MINTING THE UNMINTED: 128 variations represent the 128 coins in the original unminted table design: 32 ETH stacked in each leg to represent the required amount to stake a node on the Ethereum blockchain. Like a table, staking is to become the solid foundation on which everyone working on the Ethereum blockchain depends on. It's my hope that that the artwork's variations become ways for collectors to represent their own values as they trade and update their Forever Supper cores to reflect their sentiment toward Ethereum and the market at any given time."

GENERATIVE: "I wrote an algorithm in Processing to stack the coins which make up the legs of the table. Using the concept of the Fear & Greed Index, 50 is the most stable. 0 being the most fearful contains the greatest weaknesses in the structure. 100, being the most greedy has the coins wobbling, almost dancing as greed threatens to unstake the coins to be cashed in. In order to create the unique cover art for each variation, I repurposed an algorithm I was originally working with in early 2020 that I created to test the limits of Async Art in those early days. On a whole, this is a loving tribute to a period of time that has grown to carry meaning into the future for a global audience, as we all continue building and learning."

This is an Expansion Pack for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

THE UNMINTED TABLE

ETH = DING DING DING 
Headlines: 69M 
Stacking: 38,000 ETH 
Staking: Everyday 
Collector's Favorite Artwork: "First Supper" 

This is an Expansion Item for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

NORMIE DINNER BELL

Mandala Tokens

#1454356508678677848161558875153655126017957241585

ETH = Silver
Stacking: 128 ETH
Staking: 4 NODES
Fear & Greed Index: 100

This is an Expansion Item for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

ETH = Silver - Stacking 128 - Fear Index: 100

Rotating nested squircles: a fully on-chain spin-off of "Markov's Dream: Orb" by Harm van den Dorpel, 2022. Colours, amount of rings, rotation speed and curvature are determined on mint. The animated vector graphics that compose this artwork are entirely generated by the Solidity code that the smart contract was programmed in. It does not rely on any web server or off-chain storage solution like IPFS, which means that this artwork is indestructible and will live on as long as the Ethereum blockchain exists.

Markov's Dream: Orb (lite)

On-chain rotating nested squircles by Harm van den Dorpel, 2022

Orb (lite) #75

An edition of 500 artworks total with 12 color variations. Final rarity will be determined at the completion of the reveal.

Don't Feed the Pigeons

Hustling down a New York City street, under a sea of towering skyscrapers and kaleidoscopes of light, a gust of night air rushes through your hair as a dozen pigeons take flight around you. Their silvery gray feathers glow blue, red, and purple from the hues above. Don't they look regal?

Pigeons have a bad rep. Sure, people see them as pests now, but starting even earlier than 4500 BCE (6,500 years ago), it was a different story. Once considered a beautiful companion, pigeons were highly respected creatures. Some kept as pets, some used as mail carriers with their intelligence and navigational skills, others decorated with medals of honor for saving thousands of lives in war or stranded boats out at sea. In fact, pigeons were brought to America on the first-ever expeditions from Europe because the voyage simply couldn't be done without their help. Over the years, like a true New Yorker, they have scrappily adapted to their new environment, thriving in a concrete jungle built for mankind. Despite their fall in status, they are still as intertwined with the city as Lady Liberty. As the many signs read "Don't Feed the Pigeons", or do, but at least stop to appreciate the beautiful life - big and small - that creates the beating pulse of New York City.

The color variants of "Don't Feed the Pigeons" are all named after graffiti, stickers, or signs found in New York. There is a special nod hidden in the SVG layers to a very special friend. R.I.P Alotta Money, sending you love from all of the beautiful creatures here missing you.

Don't Feed the Pigeons #495

Don't Feed the Pigeons #472

Seed Vault

Seed Vault #88

Seed Vault #87

Seed Vault #86

bedroom cuboro stacks by sean lockwood, 2016, 100 editions

A series of 3D rendered animations describing Cuboro block arrangements contained in a corner of a bedroom, with different simulated time-of-day lighting. As a screensaver, each animation corresponds to the time and location of the housing computer.

by sean lockwood   
production by laurel schwulst and daniel brewster

Initially tokens for this work were minted on the bitcoin blockchain, using the now defunct service [ascribe.io](https://www.ascribe.io/). The ERC721 contract for this artwork was deployed in 2018.

bedroom cuboro stacks (94/100) by Sean Lockwood

Mint your room. Do you like it? Build it in the real world, paint it, put your favorite things inside, and pose in it.

Room for Everyone

ROOMIE #382

ROOMIE #381

Coldie

Mixed reality AR/VR/Metaverse 3D sculptures and VRM avatars derived from the DecentralEyesMashup portrait series by Coldie in 2021. Originally released as the first generative series on ASYNC alongside XCOPY and Alotta Money.

DEyes Legends - OG Series #115

FOMA

This foma collection is our own aesthetic statement on the explosion of a.i. works currently in the space.  Robness curated 1000 versions of what he dubs 'abstract mascots.'  Playing with word prompt a.i., He managed to get the gans to use the foma logo, magazine page fold textures and classic mascot design aesthetics to produce some sort of weird juxtaposition of vintage and future character design.  All were hand curated out of 1000s of generations and we tried to make sure each were very unique from each other. Further, we are making these images cc0 which has been another topic of the day in our world.  Feel free to remix, put on shirts etc.