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Presidential Portrait 2017 - 2021

$0.88 ETH auction$12

The artists rendering of the Presidential Portrait for 2017- 2021, in the classic early NFT CryptoArt animated gif and GAN style. Created using DCGAN from South Chintala and forked by Robbie Barrat. 

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Mortal Men Token Ring 9

$2.06 ETH$12

The ninth ring of the Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die. A ring lost and then forged into a token for this present age. Created from an AI model of coins from a power of this world. A power to see, to conceal. Power to change history, kill, to protect and heal and yet doomed to die.


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Ascension of Cosmic Christ

$2.06 ETH$12

Mystic exploration in caring for each other with love and folly of the attempt to fix our problems by escaping into the cosmos. May we discover ourselves and each other on the journey.

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Eternal Flame

$3.33 ETH auction$12

The Eternal Flame is the fuel to our collective conscious which breathes the fire for a new iteration time and time again. This is an original render created by Braulio Crespo in 2018.

In 2021, it was used to train an artificial intelligence model by Bård Ionson. After the model was trained, Crespo refined the flame one more time. Original audio produced by Aldo Crespo.

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Life Is Green

$2.266 ETH$2.163

Life in many layers. The sacred and profane in relief. Holiness in the mundane. Generative AI Art exhibits layers of paint, fibers, porcelain, green leaves. Many thousands of images make the neural network training consider many textures and shapes which might seem contrary. Made from a blending of two GAN models of crucifix and toilets. Work exhibited at Abstract Art in the Age of New Media

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The Spider And The Zinnia

$0.5 ETH$2.163

A zinnia grown by my daughter and a small spider captured on the glass of the scanner.

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Happy Green Bug Lives

$1.5 ETH$12

(video) Rosencrantz is not dead he lives as a bug now. Watching life pass by sitting on a leaf.

My daughter found this green bug in my generative art images and was so excited to see it come to life as it makes faces in the art transitions. Images generated from a StyleGan2 artificial intelligence model of toilets.

4K resolution - contact artist for mp4 file to play on your digital screen or TV

The original video comes from the Fountain remix project Fountain No. 501. Fountain Art

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Happy Green Bug 4K

$1.545 ETH$2.163

A little happy green bug has chosen where to sit for the day or to hide away as its world changes. My daughter found this green bug in my generative art images and was so excited to see it come to life as it makes faces in the art transitions. Images generated from a StyleGan2 artificial intelligence model of toilets.

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Tres Crucifijos ∞

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Tres Crucifijos Infinito, the three crosses ad infinitum. An artificial intelligence model creates crucifix into infinity. Generated imagery created by training the model on 5,750 images of contemporary and classical crucifix and the artists animated oscilloscope drawings of a hypercube. It has an aspect ratio of 3 or 16:48 for display on ultrawide monitors.

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Shop Now

$2.1 ETH$2.163

"make america great again - CLICK THE 'SHOP NOW' BUTTON", is what the Facebook advertisement said in 2016, what did we buy?


An art film made from artificial intelligence / machine learning using a next frame prediction method.


2048 x 1536 px, Video (22.9 MB)

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People vs. COVID-19

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3D Model of COVID-19 protease generated with oscilloscope.


The protease is studied in order to learn how to block it so the virus cannot replicate.


Profits from this work will be donated to Save The Children https://gitcoin.co/grants/494/save-the-children for COVID-19 expenses.


It has been created from a 3D model of the COVID-19 main protease from the US National Institutes of Health https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3DPX-013157 Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.2210/pdb6Y84/pdb

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Orange 100 Editions

$105 USD$2.163

This exclusive work is part of a next frame prediction series by Bård Ionson. The orange blobs generate from nothing and migrate in space until they disappear again. Orange is an exploration of religious themes symbolized by the crucifix. It was generated out of Bård's experimentation with the construction of new forms of the crucifix using neural network techniques.

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256 variations of Color Magic Planets

$0.1 ETH$2.163

Inspired by the shapes and colors of childhood and the exploration of planets, where translucent vinyl shapes overlay to create new colors to spark the imagination. Using the token code the location of shapes and colors are generated. Watch out for the Entity in their latent spacecraft. Based on an original artwork by Liza Grace "Colorform Multiverse" (Generative)


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Small Bug Layer on Async Art

$0.9 ETH$2.163

One layer of the master work called Happy Green Bug

A less happy bug.

Inspired and remixed from https://fountain-art.com?501

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Daughter Layer for Artificial Entity Probes

$0.8 ETH$2.163

The Entity is a triune being who displays herself in different physical forms. There are three parts but she is one. The Daughter has decided to exhibit the form of the crucifix in order to instigate a response from the human mind. Pick her form, size and place. These images have been generated by the Entity using artificial intelligence software like StyleGAN and Pix2Pix.

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Mother

$0.5 ETH$2.163

The Entity is a triune being who displays herself in different physical forms. There are three parts but she is one. The Mother in a paradox has chosen to represent herself as a variation of an artificial intelligence character from 1987. Pick what she will look like and where she will go. These images have been generated by the Entity using artificial intelligence software StyleGAN and Pix2Pix.

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Presidential Portrait 2016 -2021 Glitch

$100 NEAR$2.163

A retrospective of the artists work during a dark time. In the classic early NFT CryptoArt animated gif and GAN style. Created using DCGAN from South Chintala and forked by Robbie Barrat. A gif of DCGAN art from a model of portraits and images of Trump processed using SoX

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Fountain #28 out of 501

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The Fountain curated image from a GAN AI/ML model created and trained by artist Bård Ionson. Created from mostly toilets but sometimes mixed with crucifix, gas masks and clocks. An experiment in modern conceptual art with performance from artists of all mediums. The entire model and performance around it are the art.

This copy of the art is owned by me and I may sell it at a future date. You are not allowed to resell it in its current form. Please share it anywhere non-commercially but you must attribute Bård Ionson, title and the url to it. To sell the art you must make it into your own art with modifications or remixing that reinterprets the work in your personal artistic way. The new art you create must attribute Bård Ionson and provide the url to this original work. I encourage you to share alike with your new piece but it is not required because you may use this art as only a very small part of a larger work.

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Fountain #4 of 501

$0.05 ETH$2.163

The Fountain curated image from a GAN AI/ML model created and trained by artist Bård Ionson. Created from mostly toilets but sometimes mixed with crucifix, gas masks and clocks. An experiment in modern conceptual art with performance from artists of all mediums. The entire model and performance around it are the art.

This copy of the art is owned by me and I may sell it at a future date. You are not allowed to resell it in its current form. Please share it anywhere non-commercially but you must attribute Bård Ionson, title and the url to it. To sell the art you must make it into your own art with modifications or remixing that reinterprets the work in your personal artistic way. The new art you create must attribute Bård Ionson and provide the url to this original work. I encourage you to share alike with your new piece but it is not required because you may use this art as only a very small part of a larger work. 

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Fountain #303 of 501

$0.1 ETH$2.163

The Fountain curated image from a GAN AI/ML model created and trained by artist Bård Ionson. Created from mostly toilets but sometimes mixed with crucifix, gas masks and clocks. An experiment in modern conceptual art with performance from artists of all mediums. The entire model and performance around it are the art.

This copy of the art is owned by me and I may sell it at a future date. You are not allowed to resell it in its current form. Please share it anywhere non-commercially but you must attribute Bård Ionson, title and the url to it. To sell the art you must make it into your own art with modifications or remixing that reinterprets the work in your personal artistic way. The new art you create must attribute Bård Ionson and provide the url to this original work. I encourage you to share alike with your new piece but it is not required because you may use this art as only a very small part of a larger work. 

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Fountain #48 of 501

$0.2 ETH$2.163

The Fountain curated image from a GAN AI/ML model created and trained by artist Bård Ionson. Created from mostly toilets but sometimes mixed with crucifix, gas masks and clocks. An experiment in modern conceptual art with performance from artists of all mediums. The entire model and performance around it are the art.

This copy of the art is owned by me and I may sell it at a future date. You are not allowed to resell it in its current form. Please share it anywhere non-commercially but you must attribute Bård Ionson, title and the url to it. To sell the art you must make it into your own art with modifications or remixing that reinterprets the work in your personal artistic way. The new art you create must attribute Bård Ionson and provide the url to this original work. I encourage you to share alike with your new piece but it is not required because you may use this art as only a very small part of a larger work

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Battledore Cave Mural 5 Editions

$39 TEZ$2.163

5 editions

Sound painted on the wall of the cave. Created from the sound of images being displayed on an oscilloscope from the artwork Battledore. 1,734  ×  3,090 px https://www.elementum.art/en/artworks/battledore-108/

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Battledore Sound Wizard 119 Editions

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119 Editions

Sound of the Wizard being exposed. Created from the sound of images being displayed on an oscilloscope from the artwork Battledore. 1,734  ×  3,090 px https://www.elementum.art/en/artworks/battledore-108/

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Digital Fear

$1 ETH$2.163

By Bård Ionson Fear in the digital age. Self portrait of the artist using a glitch scan technique.

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