Artificial intelligence and art have been controversial for years. So it is not surprising that Christie faced protests for her first dedicated auction, which the auction house says she was the first of a large auction house, faced protests. In February, more than 5,600 artists signed an open letter asking Christie to cancel the sale.
“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 partially open letter reads. “These models and companies behind them use human artists, using their illegal work or payments to build commercial products that compete with them. Your support for these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further stimulate the massive thefts of human artists’ work companies.”
A representative for Christie shared a statement on the matter.
“From the beginning, two things have been true about the art world: one, artists are inspired by what came before them, and two, art can cause debate, discussion and controversy,” the statement said. “Discussions about digital art, including art created by using it, are not new and in many ways should be expected. Many pop artists, for example, have been the subject of similar discussions. Saying, Christie, a global company with world-class experts, has been positioned uniquely to explore relatively new artists: artists: market and challenges. ”
The representative also showed a positive reception of the auction on X, once Twitter. Artist Daniel Ambrosi has twitter twitter, “so excited that it has been part of this memorable experience … and pleased that my art work is going home with someone!”
A person looks at the works of art created by Huemin called Dream-0 #9 in a picture of the press for the added intelligence in Christie’s New York.
The auction, called increased intelligence, was closed on Wednesday morning. More than 30 many withdrew hundreds of offers and brought $ 728,784, Christie reports. And there is a generative turn: The auction house says 37% of the recorders were completely young for Christie’s, and 48% of bidders were millennia or members of General Mr.
“The auction redefines the evolution of art and technology, exploring the human agency in the era of it within the excellent art,” a promotional statement from Christie’s reading. “From robotics to Gans to interactive experiences, artists involve and collaborate with artificial intelligence in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, prints, digital art and more.”
(Gans, or opposing generating networks, are generating models of one that create new data or images that resemble the data in which they are trained.)
One person holds a press from the works of art created by Clownvamp’s The Junk Machine in a picture of the press for the added intelligence in Christie’s New York.
The open letter collected 6.493 signatures, of which 5,646 were verified. Signators range from illustrators to authors to art therapists to cinematographers, from countries across the globe.
The highest sale was $ 277,200 for a job by Refik Anadol entitled Halucinations Machine – ISS Dreams – A. He used a data set of more than 1.2 million images obtained from the International Space Station and satellites.
Another work, Holly Hendon and Mat Dryhurst The study of Embedding 1 & 2, was sold for $ 94,500. It was the result of a text model in the image trained in the changed images of Hendon himself and came to Christie’s after his involvement in Whitney 2024.