Realiti
Created by Atay Ilgun in May 2019, Realiti is one of the earliest AI Art NFT collections. Named after and inspired by the Grimes track Realiti, its 186 dream like pieces explore memory, mood, and digital consciousness. The collection was featured by Sotheby’s in recognition of its cultural importance.
Explore collectionDeepBlack
DeepBlack debuted in September 2019 and was created by a GAN trained on a dataset comprising of classical masterpieces. The collection captures the machine’s attempt to interpret and recompose the canon of art history. Featured in Christie’s Augmented Intelligence sale, its first sale dedicated to AI Art.
Explore collectionDigital Art Collective
Created by the crypto artist known as “Bitcoin”, Digital Art Collective debuted in June 2019. Spanning 214 NFTs minted across 2019 and 2020, the collection showcases a range of visual styles generated using multiple Early AI tools.
Explore collectionEtherIslands
Created by the crypto artist Bitcoin using Nvidia’s GauGAN in October 2019, EtherIslands imagines AI generated island paradises through painterly machine vision. With a total supply of just 54 NFTs, its scarcity has made it one of the most elusive and quietly coveted grails in Early AI Art collecting.
Explore collectionEarly AI Art
Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative creative force of our era.
We are witnessing the birth of a medium that will redefine the boundaries of art, authorship, and imagination.
AI Art is Digital Art, and Digital Art is intangible, it doesn’t exist as a physical object.
Ownership of Digital Art must be established by consensus. In this space, the blockchain has become the gold standard.
NFTs provide a Decentralised, Independent and Verifiable record of ownership.
Early AI Art NFTs occupy a unique position in cultural history.
They are pioneers of both AI Art and blockchain technology, created before either was widely understood.
These works are not defined by technical perfection. They bear the fingerprints of the machine at its earliest attempts to see and to imagine.
They are time capsules from the moment when artists and algorithms first met.
As AI’s role in society continues to expand at an exponential pace, the significance of these works will only deepen.
They will be recognised as the genesis points of a medium that went on to define a century.
Amid the infinite production of contemporary AI Art, collectors will look to the beginnings.
The supply of Early AI Art NFTs is extraordinarily limited.
Early AI Art NFTs are spread across a few small bodies of work, often numbering in the dozens or hundreds per collection.
All it would take is a modest increase in demand for them to become almost impossible to acquire.
For the discerning collector, this is an opportunity that will look inevitable in hindsight.