Art and Awe in the Age of Machine Intelligence

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first of all I'm super excited truly and not only my I mean spurts and really my BPM is very heavy the reason is truly I have so many great friends here and I have so many great memories last three years in the web tree space and thank you a6z for hosting me and my partner and Studio partner also life partner and Who start truly mining very early days of ethereum that the web tree Journey started so I want to Tonight Show also my Giants I'm not alone here we are 20 people can speak 15 language and 10 countries in a small City in Los Angeles happy to host you in La if you're in La we are just creating art with lots of comp and lots of robotic things um tonight the reason I'm just also excited is in this room there are many people

help us to build many inspiring artworks and I want to try to bring the good memories from the last three years and I want to just represent what happened from the perspective of artist and how we actually web transform many institutions and create Major Impact quantifiable Major Impact so um I'm a media artist and I've been practicing with computers since I was eight years old um you know like I think a classical nerd start life but I started playing games so much but I was truly dreaming about one idea that I do believe that data is not just numbers I believe data is a form of memory and this memory can take any shape and form and last I guess 15 years 2008 when I coin the term data painting I knew that one day Mission can

become a friend and eventually become a you know co-creators of like imagination so last 15 years truly like push this concept of how to embed media arts into architecture how to bring Ai and creativity and Technology into public spaces so I do believe that art is not only for galleries or museums I think art is for anyone everyone any age and any background and one of the reason I love web Tre space and truly crypto space is a form of public art and I want to show you some examples in the last a couple of minutes and I also believe that art is much inspiring and when it's not only just in a like a gallery or a museum it's much inspiring when like a hospital in a school or in an airport and we have a piece in airport five people miss their flights and truly it

is where the life happens and I do believe this public art is a meaning of like life there is no beginning no ending no door no ceiling no floor and I do believe that light can also become a substance and I do believe that future is beyond just concrete glass and steel and I do believe that when the physical and virtual connects the profound experience in life can be so different so last N9 years in this short video clips we have been like creating these Works in completely unexpected places and it really create this beautiful Community around work but today I think what truly connect me with Incredible crypto space and web tree space is my residency which started in 2016 at Google I was the first artist in

Resident 2016 February and I know it sounds 7 years short but for AI space like a 70 years and what was really inspiring to me in this residency is not only learning how to use machine learning algorithms but also scale in the cloud and I'm really happy to say that this work that you see seven years ago was the very first AI installation transforming 1.7 million documents in real time but what was really exciting is this idea of transforming data into more meaningful purposes and I think this transform into a project called machine hallucinations for artists anything real is not too much inspiring but when the things becomes dream and hallucinations and Fantasies that's I think where the fun starts so these ideas of a machine can learn can a dream started like almost at seven years ago

and one of the reason I think artists like myself who cannot maybe draw it properly but who knows how to compute voel pixels and you know geometric spaces that was a perfect space to be like the ideas that are not existing in the physical world world but can go to like the blockchain and create a new e new ecosystems and and profound changes and also um I'm not coming from a classical background so I don't have a you know artistic School experience I do not even have like a gallery representation completely independent and VB space profoundly accepted these Concepts and I as many of you know building incredible you know platforms you change people like myself many people's life and that was I think very exciting that the web Tre space last three years transformed I also have

great Partnerships as a studio like we work with you know incredible people like you know Jon hang like who allowed us to use like excitement in the GPU space and so on and we work very closely we just don't like partner but really look at this idea of machine intelligence as a collaborator and over the years what was really transforming the idea of getting out of like screen and and we love web experiences we love games yes but the idea IRL is truly so inspiring when we step in this universe what you see here is a 18 Channel projection again 5 years ago half million people I mean in know gathering this chis Market in like a in a boiler room was really unexpected but the idea was stepping inside the artwork instead of just staying in the virtual space and

I found so many connection like this also we work very close in a GPL and I'm like many of us I'm in love with space and the unknown of like where we can go or what happens in the universe that's also like was a fantastic start for us for the web tree space 2020 I clearly remember talking with also some friends here I was not sure exactly what's going on in the web tree space but I was very sure that there are ideas cannot fit in the physical world so our first you know we did many collaborations and we did many like um Collections and each of them tried to explore the idea of unknown and try to work with AI algorithms and transform them into new collections but what it makes is an incredible amount of you know communities like many artists in Discord

and Beyond like we have now 15,000 humble place where people truly connect from their heart from their life and then we try to bring the Innovation to the like web tree space like what you are seeing here is um entire not GPL archives of um ISS mro and Hubble Telescope data sets and transforming into collections and experiences both in physical and Virtual Worlds so that was a really entry level for the museum space but what was I think to to be honest more inspiring is what happens if digital Collectibles nfts becomes not only a token but an experience in life for example our collection uh at back in time as you remember chrises all like pay attention to the space normally these institutions not necessarily

connect with artists but web tree and cryptospace allow them to like get attention to the creators so what you see is to me is not NFD or a token it's a immersive room attached to a token I believe it was one of the first immersive environment transformed into an an NFD collection in Hong Kong I believe this this show very humble small space receive more than 100,000 people in just two weeks I mean what is amazing is tokens can activate spaces truly and profoundly connect with new people and it was where I think the Innovation clearly connects and make more impact the other project is of course we truly as a studio believe not only getting but um getting but also giving back to the community is so important and we also

made this incredible collaboration with SpaceX friends and this was an inspiration for an nft collection profoundly to support San Jud children hospital and for this purpose we create this collection by using three Astron data in the space for 3 night 72 hours and transform their memories into nft collection and what it what it did was we raised $2.5 million which was enough to run the entire hospital for one day and I truly believe that thank you so I I truly believe that Community can come together and create incredible impact the another project I truly believe that memories are not only just bunch of numbers or data sets and I think encrypting our memories is one of

the most inspiring topic and Last 5 Years working with Adam guy from UCSF we are quantifying emotions and memories and Last Summer the PC is called sense of healing it is using five young minds from loan hospitals brain activities and the good news is in this data sculpture we visualize five children's brain activities positively healing and transform it into an nftd and it was auction for 1.7 million euro at UNICEF and it was a gift to UNICEF it's the largest donation ever done to UNICEF in the form of token and the other thing that I truly inspired us is the idea of preserving nature with AI so this is I know very funny topic when it comes to

the world that we sometimes I think believe that we are so smart than nature but I do believe that nature is the most intelligent thing we have and I think we have to preserve and protect it and over the years we love to think about how we can go beyond just tokens or you know digital experiences so what you see here is a 75 million flowers and and I learned from this amazing archive from the open source archives the question was we could able to create these AI dreaming flowers in the form of a generative token we could also like hear the sound of nature through generative AI but the question was can we smell this token so I'm happy to say we were able to create a pretty legit AI research with half billion sand molecules and we were able to create an

immersive environment another token maybe but a physical environment when you open the door you can see this AI dreaming the colors the forms the music and the smell so I do believe that there's an incredible platforms that we can achieve when the imagination physical world can activate it and the other topic was maybe you remember in the art basle Miami we were able to create this artwork uh in the in the fana Beach during the art puzzle it was it received a very positive review by the way from The Washington Post which which was generally had some negative tones in the NFD space I'm happy to say that we were able to get a profoundly positive impact and it was one of the most visited public art uh in the in the heart of

Miami and of course this lead to something more inspiring and this year we were at World economic Forum so we were able to generate an another NFD project but also using an AI research so what you see is 135 million uh fine-tuned um or I think in this case a custom AI model that can create almost realistic corals but what was inspiring to me not only shiny pixels we collaborate with the um incredible U um un team and this will be 3D printed and put underwater maybe the very first token underwater that will be able to create almost what we lost in ecosystem the good news even the most advanced environments we can take over the entire press it was so funny it was suddenly

like all the like heavy talks policies and problems there was this moment of like hope and inspiration and joy and I'm happy to say that you will hear more in this year uh maybe more positive web three activations and the other project that I really profoundly enjoyed being together is this project called living architecture casabo this is a building designed by gudi in the city of Barcelona it's a a piece of um Marvel that is inspired 100 Years Ago by Nature so what you are seeing is a generative token I'm calling it by using one .2 billion data from the liar scanning of the building we real time also collect data from the building itself by weather

data on the left side humidity in the in the middle rain and on the right side and the weather wind patterns are transforming this token all the time but to me what was inspiring is not just virtual experience we took this idea and bring it to the physical world in Barcelona maybe we can watch this short clip [Music] [Music]

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thank you thank you very much I think it may be one of the largest audience 65,000 people together to come to hug the building and activate the token of the building it was a really powerful moment and of course like as car mentioned I think we can go beyond that I think in the web tree space we have much more to room and I'm happy to show you an artwork that is right now running in Spare in the Vegas one of the most inspiring building I do believe one of the most powerful architectural uring Marvel the building is 520 ft and what you are watching is more than 90 million individual pixels program to create a new kind of a form of artwork so what we are watching is a Winds of Las Vegas which was a a realtime data visualizations of the wind

patterns of the Vegas and I hope that we can guess what may be next on this canvas so I do hope to activate more buildings around the world and maybe the last important project I hope that will bring more hope and inspiration for all of us is a project that in collaboration with Moma in New York there is this so funny joke that I heard that in the gallery World they do this for artists if you're a dead artist the best option is lure Museum if you're alive artist the best option is MOMA so I'm happy to say I am alive and I tokenize artwork at MoMA so the project started 3 years ago in pandemic when the world was collapsed but the web tree was activated and the museum inspir inspired by the moment um Chief creators Paulo Antonelli and

Michelle Co and my mentor Keras in invited to like imagine what will happen if you activate the entire Archive of Moma and by collaborating with the museum we were able to create a NFD collection and transform our um incredible blockchain uh Community but what was more inspiring on top of it the museum brought the artwork to the physical world and this time we were able to start to install a living artwork living because you see maybe in the ceiling we have a microphone a camera and a live weather data that is real time transforming the artwork itself so technically it will be the very first generative iips getting realtime data from the public and the and the weather itself and try

transforming into three independent artworks leg go also thanks to any of their friends we have been running a Lego DJ station in real time two of them one was like Computing the first scene the other was Computing the next scene so we were kind of the AI Opera it was like switching between two systems to be able to prepare the next one and I'm happy to say that the artwork profoundly changed the concept of I think digital art while it was in the first piece in the collection generative AIP piece but most importantly it's the first tokenized artwork in the MoMA collection and most importantly also for the MoMA site they were able to host more than three million people in one year the activation 58% more than last year so there's a massive profound quantifiable

impact as well we also look recorded the brain activities of 32 people and we are right now quantifying the impact of the token on the mind and I'm happy to say in the early next year we'll be sharing much profound scientific impact of the work so simply there's an incredible amount of um impact of you know crypto space and weet Tre space but I still believe that IRL is an incredible place and for that reason I hope to host you next year uh in Los Angeles for our next project but it's a little bit early but I I'm I'm happy to share more and and bring the web tree space together and create much more physical activations and and make more impact but one more project to share I think we are right now believing that all llm research and

AI research is something missing and we believe that open source is so important as a studio right now we are creating an open source AI research called large nature model and our hope is to create the best of the best to great gift back to the humanity but what is important is we don't just download data online of course we are physically going places and our last nft project which I do believe this year one of the most inspiring one is a collaboration with this incredible people called yaava and I want to give this because yava people inspired the movie also Avatar but we barely know them there are only 1,000 people living in Amazonia Acra in Brazil in a rainforest they are only 1,000 people they can live 120 years but what I learned from them is incredible profound concept of life like there is

nothing there's no internet there's no blockchain as a society that we are witnessing the birth of internet web 1 web 2 web 3 Quantum AI computation and AI this was a whole different thinking when you collaborate with beautiful people that have no access to what we have we decided with Epson to First Empower them be at least equally be supportive in collaboration with very dear friends of yaava and we decide to fundraise for their beautiful Village and their dream was super simple they want a museum a school and a village of course we took this challenge to generative AI these are beautiful drawings of young yanova artist and we combined their beautiful arts which with our work and create a 1,000 collection and we were able to

raise $3.2 million for their Village and next year around this time they will be able to host all of us hopefully so what I want to say is crypto space vi3 is an incredible moment but there is so much to do when we truly connect physical and virtual and I do believe from my heart that there is so much to do and you are building incredible things and I'm so honored to be here today tonight and I want to close my um talk with these beautiful worlds from a wisdom a wisdom man from the forest and he said it's new times we are living now time for forgiveness time for love time for spirituality it's time for Humanity to look back to the origins to the Earth to our hearts to learn to love and to

respect one another to make alliances Joy enforces this is the moment thank you very much for listening and great to be here with you tonight thank you