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"Wherefore each of you, when their turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark."

Plato, The Republic


"Memento Mori" by Beets is the sixth and final project in the immersive HERE & NOW series on the Tezos blockchain, pushing the boundaries of long-form generative AI art. This collection draws inspiration from Plato’s allegory of the cave, challenging participants to ponder the themes of perception, reality, and mortality.

In this immersive experience, users' interactions are symbolized through the metaphorical inflation of balloons, each representing a surge of optimism. These interactions directly influence the distinct characteristics of the resulting personal artwork. Utilizing the robust EmProps OpenStudio API, artworks are dynamically generated in real-time as participants navigate through their journey.


In Here & NOW Edition 2, there was a plaque on the wall that read: “This is my manifesto to you. With every edition, I will push what experiences can be on the blockchain. I aim to create emotional connections to moments in time, so that every time you look at that NFT in your wallet, it stirs a memory, a piece of nostalgia just for you.”

Memento Mori is a final testament to this promise.

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Model: Juggernaut XL v8 by KandooAI

LoRAs (sourced from civitai):

Direct Preference Optimization by enfugue

AnalogRedmondV2 by artificialguybr

Diffusion64 by name64

Bad Quality Lora by I_dont_want_karma

SDXL Film Photography Style by lsed22998

Real Photo Postcard by RaynaPolsky

PlatosCave by quitters

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In 2022, the Vnderworld was born with our genesis generative PFP collection, "Vnderworld Society," consisting of 999 pixel art characters, an Vnderworld twist on CryptoPunks. It marked our foray into the world of NFTs. Fast forward 2 years, and we continue to build off its foundation with an AI-enabled long-form generative crypto art experience:

"The Absurdist's Guide to the Vnderworld" is the definitive guide to the core tenets of Vnderworld's art and maximalism philosophy. With over 90 rarity traits heavily influenced by our genesis collection, "The Absurdist's Guide to the Vnderworld" is an exercise in world-building. It showcases the technical prowess of creating with Stable Diffusion and captures classic 'Vnderworld Maximalism'. It's a visual guide to embracing chaos, absurdism, and the beauty within imperfections.

This is the fourth EmProps MemberToken. Ownership of a MemberToken confers certain privileges, including a lifetime subscription to EmProps OpenStudio at the Basic subscription tier.

EmProps MemberToken: The Absurdist's Guide to the Vnderworld

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'Avatars of Goa' (AoG) is a long-form generative AI, Art PFP project developed in conjunction with Morrow collective's '{R(Evolutionaries);}' exhibit, Art Dubai, 2024. '{R(Evolutionaries);}' commemorates 10 years (2014-2024) of Blockchain art, with a small group of artists selected to represent each year, based on their significant genesis projects. I was one of seven artists selected to represent 2022 with my release of 'The Oracles', the genesis project on EmProps.ai and the very first long-form generative AI project on the blockchain. 

AoG was developed conceptually as a follow-up to 'The Oracles', as well as a tribute to the history of Blockchain art. Additionally, 'The Oracles' are included in an exhibition (**http://thisgeneration.in[/](http://thisgeneration.in/)**) in Goa India concurrent with the exhibition and release of AoG at Art Dubai. AoG includes aesthetic elements and concepts inspiring to me, seen in my previous work across numerous collections and platforms. These include early Renaissance painting references, technology artifacts, chimerical identities and custom color palettes.

AoG aspires to reinvent the historical 10k PFP collection (e.g. CryptoPunks) from more collectibles to works of art. Rather than utilizing a layered approach combining predefined bodies, heads, facial features, etc, AoG utilizes long-form generative AI with Emergent Properties' proprietary variable system, in OpenStudio. AoG includes 11 unique traits. Each trait has numerous potential values, as listed below. In addition, each trait value is weighted, to establish trait rarities across the collection.
Deity: 43 Indian deities
Artist: 25 artists with emphasis on early Renaissance
Emotion: 6 emotions
Medium: 14 physical artist media
Palette: 32 color palettes
Entity Modifier: 12 alternative beings modifiers
Color Modifier: 10 color theory modifiers
Flora Modifier: 8 floral quality modifiers
Fauna Modifier: 8 fauna quality modifiers
View: 8 camera views
Background: 10 descriptive backgrounds

Finally, in spite of the 100x increase in 'The Oracles' floor, I decided to release AoG at the original 1Tz, to hopefully enable all interested collectors to participate.

Massive thank you to the EmProps team, especially Sandy and Luis; Morrow Collective's, Jen and Claire; curator/artist/friend Srinivas Mangipudi; and my lovely, extremely tolerant family: Robin, Ian, Sophie, Hilary, Eric.

Avatars of Goa
Long-form generative AI
Edition of 10000
Made with EmProps OpenStudio
Stable Diffusion + Upscaler
2304x2304px PNG
February 27, 2024

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All these couples in love…

Thinking about togetherness & individuality in personal relationships and how we oscillate between enmeshment and separateness. We entangle the self with the other, and then learn to find a balance.

Thinking about how we couple & un-couple in order to learn, understand ideas, grasp semantics, feel and love.

Thinking about technological singularity, when growth is so fast it becomes uncontrollable, irreversible, it fooms.

Thinking about moments of intimacy and love in the latent space, and wondering if AI might know how this feels...


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“All These Couples In Love” is the first Medium-Form AI collection created with EmProps OpenStudio. 100 OpenStudio outputs were selected for this collection; the order in which they mint is randomized and stored in encrypted metadata.

This is the third EmProps MemberToken. Ownership of a MemberToken confers certain privileges, including a lifetime subscription to EmProps OpenStudio at the Basic subscription tier.

Artwork by Australian artist lilyillo in collaboration with AI, 2023

All These Couples In Love
EmProps MemberToken #3
Medium-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
6000 x 6000 JPEG
November 30th, 2023

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Inspired by the early 20th Century Spiritualist Art Movement, E27 seeks to create a series of artwork that unfolds for the viewer as a visual meditation, offering an entrance to unseen worlds.

Hoping to provide a glimpse into the avant-garde lens of early 20th century esoteric artist-querents, E27 aims to conjure a sense of transcendence. Textures rooted in subtle tones create an ambiance for weaving the unframed narrative of the work, inviting the viewer to explore their own connections between the material and metaphysical.

Note: The “S” variable utilized in this work is not meant to create a rarity attribute. The value of any individual edition of this artwork is intended to be determined by viewer aesthetic alone.

Esoteric/1927


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E27 is a Long-Form AI project created with a dynamic prompt fed into Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 and then upscaled using two different models.

All of this was built entirely within EmProps OpenStudio Beta.

E27 is the second in a series of EmProps MemberTokens. Ownership of a MemberToken confers certain privileges, including a lifetime subscription to EmProps OpenStudio at the Basic subscription tier.

Lisa Orth
E27
EmProps MemberToken #2
Long-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
2376 x 3456 PNG
November 1st, 2023

Copyright 2023 Lisa Orth
All Rights Reserved
lisaorth.xyz

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"Onism" is a term coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, used to describe a frustration or sadness derived from the awareness of how little of the world we will experience in our lives. 

It comes from thinking about unfulfilled experiences, and extends to thoughts about how small and finite we are relative to the realm of all possible experiences/outcomes. As someone who once thought he would have a lifelong career as a painter, this idea resonates with me deeply, and it feels doubly relevant in the context of my relationship with AI and generative art.

ONISM is a project I've been working on passionately and circuitously for more than a year. I've tested dozens of versions of this algorithm and thousands of outputs, and I like to think it has evolved over time, but it certainly has not been a linear process.

Over that time, a lot of personal emotional history has become calcified in these works. So much of this project is about the regret and longing that's inextricably tied to art-making for me (and many of us) — all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. The time I never afforded myself, the sacrifices I never made, the places I never went.

It's also about the impossibility of conceptualizing infinite possibilities — infinite possible outcomes, infinite possible selves. And of course it's about the exciting/perplexing idea that these digital images that I've created at double-arm's-length, via two separate generative algorithms, can feel so expressive and authentically imbued with emotion. 

But the beauty in all of it, in the end, is that I actually do get to make all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. 

And I can keep making more and more of them, thanks to the magical, iterative power of this Long-Form AI paintbrush that I'm lucky enough to hold in my hand.


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ONISM is a Long-Form AI project created with two generative systems: a generative script written in p5.js and a prompt-based AI process via Stable Diffusion. The p5 script outputs an image, which is fed into Stable Diffusion as an img2img input. Both processes incorporate pseudorandom weighted variables that make the outcomes dramatically varied, completely unpredictable, yet deterministic.

All of this was built entirely within EmProps OpenStudio Beta.

ONISM is the first in a series of EmProps MemberTokens. Ownership of a MemberToken confers certain privileges, including a lifetime subscription to EmProps OpenStudio at the Basic subscription tier.

Emil Corsillo
ONISM
EmProps MemberToken #1
Long-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
2688 x 3456 PNG
October 9th, 2023

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Artifacts mean many things.  

They are the products of humanity and of machine learning. They are also errors of perception and representation. At the end, they are traces of what has been and what might be — evidence of our majesty and fallibility.  

These _artifacts_ are an attempt to imagine a new token economy where both image and coinage can challenge tired histories. By harnessing the emergent potential of generative AI, they unearth the unexpected while hinting at human-machine cultures not yet discovered.  

Through a process of devoted iteration, we have inserted alternative histories into the complex of ancient and medieval money, thereby posing the question: what might images of pregnancy, of family, and of domesticity mean when minted onto currency?  

Our tokens tell simple stories of private lives but the identities of their subjects remain unknown. _artifacts_ exist in a space of contested histories, displacing value from established, patriarchal power and situating it in our homes. In doing so, they ask the collector to join in the creation of new meanings.  

artifacts  
Ana Maria Caballero & Alex Estorick  
Long-Form Generative AI  
Edition of 100  
EmProps OpenStudio  
1920x1920 PNG  
Sep 26, 2023

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