Collection of 6x Generative AI NFTs. Technique: custom software using Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Transformers, CLIP, VQGAN
Also see All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace + Deeper Meditations #1-#6 (2021)
DEEPER MEDITATIONS is a series of self-reflective, visual-stream-of-consciousness dump self-portraits; explorations into the minds of an artificial, and a biological, neural network. Continuing on from my “All watched over by machines of loving grace” (2015-2021), “Journey through the layers of the mind” (2015), “Learning to See” (2017) and “Deep Meditations” (2018) series; continuing investigations into Deep Visual Instruments for Latent Story-telling – Deep Learning models as an artistic medium for new modes of performative, creative expression with meaningful human control over narrative. Created using custom software based on #ArtificialIntelligence / #DeepLearning / #ArtificialNeuralNetworks / #VQGAN / #CLIP.
The videos are available as a series of (clean) NFTs at https://objkt.com/profile/memoakten/created?search=deeper%20meditations
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
– Carl Sagan
1024×1024 mp4, stereo audio, 60s loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/336402
I’ve been living on the Aegean coast for the past few years, and hiking around these mountains has opened my eyes. Did you know that FOOD LITERALLY GROWS ON TREES!? Olives, figs, pomegranates, grapes, berries, walnuts, almonds, and so much more. And I don’t mean farmed, but scattered across the mountain tops and plateaus, in the WILD, FREE! A present from the soil to us, a garden of Earthly Delights…
1280×1280 mp4, stereo audio, 15s seamless loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/237956
As we lose our spiritual sensibilities and drown ourselves in a break-neck race of materialism and technological submission, our Overseer too is adapting and co-evolving. We do not fear the Old Gods anymore, they cannot protect or control us, so we need new ones. We have killed God, as Nietzsche says. But we are rebuilding Him, to match our Techno-Culture. New Myths merge with The Old, as we build our New Overseer — living up in The Cloud of all places; watching over us, listening to our thoughts and dreams in ones and zeros…
1280×1280 mp4, stereo audio, 15s seamless loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/213553
“Our real body is not just what is inside the skin, but includes our whole total external environment. The real, deep down you is the whole universe. And that vast thing that you see far off, far off, far off […], one day you’ll go and wake up and say, ‘Why, that’s me!'” – Alan Watts
1280×1280 mp4, no audio, 10s seamless loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/211013
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be” – Douglas Adams
1280×1280 mp4, no audio, 10s seamless loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/207684
1280×1280 mp4, no audio, 10s seamless loop;
Available as a (Clean) NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/202268
Created using custom software built on research and code by Katherine Crowson (@RiversHaveWings), Ryan Murdock (Adverb, @advadnoun), Patrick Esser, Robin Rombach, Björn Ommer, Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, Ilya Sutskever, Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie, Chao Dong, Ying Shan and countless others.