Unusual auction at Christie’s In New York, by the of an Artificial intelligence crafted work of art “Edmond de Belamy came” under the Hammer and achieved an unexpectedly high price.
According to Christie’s, the blurred-acting pressure is the first work of an artificial intelligence (AI), which came in a large auction house at the auction. The auction was advertised as “the arrival of KI on the global auction stage”.
Artist: “min G max D Ex[log(D(x))]+Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))]”
The picture shows a man in a dark robe with a white collar, the French clergy in the 17th century. or 18. A century remembered. Instead of an old master, a Computer was at work here, however. The algorithm that produced the work, bears the sonorous name of “min G max D Ex[log(D(x))]+Ez[log(1-D(G(z)))]”. In spite of this indication, the law is printed below: Clear rules, who is the author of the work and who owns the rights to it, does not yet exist.
Behind the work of the Paris-based collective Obvious that had sold in February for 10,000 euros, a work from his Belamy series of art collector Nicolas Laugero Lasserre. The basis for the auction work, a data set of 15,000 real portraits, the between the 14. and 20. Century emerged. On the Basis of the algorithm that produced the pictures until a competing part of the algorithm, considered one of which is a man-made.
The sale price far higher than suspected
The sale price for “Edmond de Belamy” had previously been only an estimated 7000 to 10,000 dollars. Five bidders drove the price at the auction on Thursday and then, finally, but in the height – at 432,500 dollars (380,000 euros).
The concept of art defined in every couple of generations a new, said Erin-Marie Wallace, the company “appreciates the Rare-Era Appraisals” works of art, the radio station NPR. “We redefine what art in the 21st century. Century actually is. Art is measured by what people are willing to pay for it.”
nf/wa (dpa, afp, Christie’s)