Christie’s to keep the first auction dedicated only to the art of he, between the return

The Fine Arts Auction House Christie’s is set to launch the “added intelligence”, its first auction dedicated entirely to the art created with the help of it.

The auction will last from February 20 to March 5, with a simultaneous exhibition at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries in New York. “Intelligence“There will be more than 20 lots – from digital art to sculptures, acrylic paintings and oil and paints on paper.

“The technology of it is definitely the future, and its connection to creativity will become increasingly important,” said Nicole Sales Giles, the director of Christie’s digital art in a Friday statement announcing the auction. Christie’s has sold that art before, but has not focused an entire auction on it so far.

“Added Intelligence” will include works by the early pioneers of the art algorithm and prominent contemporary digital artists such as Refik Anadol, who used to interpret and transform More than 200 works from the New York Museum of Modern Art. Anadol also co-founded dataland, a place La billed as the first museum of the arts and planned to open later this year. His part at Christie’s auction comes from “Halucinations Machine”, another series of “He’s Data Paintings” made with a model he trained in a set of images curated by the detection orbit in March of NASA .

Also on the block is a “sculpture of he’s poetry” by Sasha styles that represents the feeling “Words can communicate beyond the words” in a black matte steel and LED neon Lightbox. Styles collaborates with an alter alter alter trained in her poetry, and created a writing system that unites her handwriting with zero and 1s of the car.

Then it is Alexander Reben’s “illegal robot’s painting”, which unites the generation and live performance. Acrylic 10×12 feet evolves over time, with a robot that adds to the canvas whenever someone puts a new offer for work. Christie’s price estimates include a stunning gap, from $ 100 to $ 1.7 million.

Reben last year ended a score as The first artist in the settlement in OpenaiCreator of Dall, one of some popular generating tools that allow anyone to create an image with printed or speaking guidelines. Products like Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have led to the experimentation of algorithm art to be achieved for the masses, with the results that fill the sources of Instagram and the Reddit forums and the catapult of it at the center of a passionate debate over the intersection of cars and creativity.

At the heart of the discussion are artists and stylists who charge companies that steal their work to train the data of it without credit or compensation. A Open letter to Christie’s demanding that the auction be canceled expresses that concern. It has received nearly 3,400 signatures so far.

Petition calls for cancellation of auction

“Many of the works of art you plan to auction were created using models that are known to be trained for copyright -protected work without a license,” the letter reads, dating back Saturday. “These models and companies behind them use human artists, using their illegal work or payments to build commercial products that compete with them.”

Christie’s did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reaction, but a spokesman for a Christie told Techcrunch that “the artists represented in this sale have all of the existing, existing multidisciplinary art practices, some known in the main collections of the museum. Works at this auction are using artificial intelligence to improve their work bodies and in most cases, it is being used in a controlled way, with data trained in its own artists’ inputs.

In the auction announcement, Christie addressed another common concern expressed by some artists – that he could replace them altogether. That art of caliber demonstrated at auction is neither a shortcut for productivity, notes Christie, nor a replacement for human distinction.

He as a partner, not human replacement

He “enhances the human spectrum of creativity,” says Sales Giles. “” It is about using technology to push what is possible, exploring what can be achieved outside, but not separated by the human agency. “

It is a picture that is often echoed by artists to the forefront of the art border.

“I collaborate with him to produce art that is transcendental, art that evokes in viewer a truthless truth,” says artist Claire Silver, whose digital image “Girl” appears on the list of auction with an estimated price between 40,000 and $ 60,000. “Together, we create works that are greater than each of us can make only, not even more important than the other for the process.”

staleThe art generated by it takes its graceful magazine printedfrom Leslie Katz

Silver is one of the artists who see it as a collaborative tool and challenge the assumption that it can immediately produce a perfectly created work, ready for exhibition, without any human intervention.

“Sometimes we keep them in a kind of impossible standards where we ask systems to make fun of whole, whole shows, whole movies or whole songs, and indeed, that has never been a point,” Cristóbal Valenzuela, co -founder and CEO for the beginner Runway of him, manufacturer of a tool that generates video from text, images or video clips, told me last year. “You can choose which parts you will include. It depends on you as an artist on how you want to use it better.”