Pindar Van Arman π
@VanArman
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AI Artist with a bunch of Painting Robots - https://t.co/mELkJdPnRm - cryptovoxels: https://t.co/IhA777L2ZW - discord: https://t.co/DeVpzgcSmi
Joined June 2011
Introducing the byteGANs.a kilobyte on the blockchain. a 100% on-chain project.
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1/6𧡠. Some people are asking me what 100% On-Chain Art means. It means every single bit of the art is on the blockchain. No IPFS, No arweave. Nothing is needed but the blockchain to enjoy the art exactly as it was intended. A quick demo using bloody skullGAN #85
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Reflection.by Van Arman.999 Works.0.33 ETH. Wednesday February 7th.12 PM EST / 6PM CET. 100% onchain.generated on mint. In collaboration with @nft_paris, @sovrnart, and @foundation_artb. 1/8π§΅
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Celebrating my 5 Year SuperRare Anniversary with a Raffle for a Free bitGAN Collab!. Frozen skullGAN by Me and @anirvedas . First raffle was destroyed by bots, so doing it with premint to eliminate them as much as possible. Link to the premint will be in the comments shortly:
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MINT OUT!. WOW - Such a cool birthday present from everyone. A mint out of my most involved work to date. π Thank you so much everyone for sticking with this and looking more deeply at it. Time for π·ππ . BTW - That's @MaryPatBing's Reflection being painted in the background.
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Traveling home and my daughter is really impressed with me right nowβ¦
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Second Round of Guaranteed byteGAN spots just went out. Congrats to Winners , but don't worry if you were not on it. Just decided to make one Final PreMint for 50 Spots open to everyone, Drawing at Midnight EST!.
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This is crazy. miniPODS were airdropped to everyone on @braindrops_art that held more than one podGAN. Floor is now 8 ETH. Buying the 2 podGANs that would have made collectors eligible for this airdrop was 0.2 ETH. and they are beautiful.
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The power of @Superrare Collector Royalties. First time I sold this, it paid off the house. Then when it resold, it paid for a new backyard studio. Thx @XCOPYART @2Yeahyeah and cozomo_de_medici.
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One of the awesome things about doing a 10K ordinal is that we can hook up all of our Sovrn Curated collectors with spots. CENTS is a free mint + inscription fee. If you had trouble with the Atlas sign-up, submit w/ a support ticket. Closing in 12 Hours (midnight ET)
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It's my birthday and there is no way I am going to end the day without Reflection minting out. So close, so every hour I am going to mint 10 for museums & institutions. This guarantees a mint out by Midnight, but also gives everyone a final chance to mint their own.
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WOW - 30k Followers. 2 days ago I was at 14k. Who would have thought a 100% on-chain AI Art project would be so popular?
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Thanks ππ Cozomo de' Medici ππ for supporting my art. Took more than 20 years to find an audience that appreciated it, and I am grateful for that everyday. π·.
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Just finished an accounting of the byteGANs deploy. It cost over 30 ETH to record the contract and 1111 GIFS directly on the Ethereum Blockchain. That's $50,000 USD in Gas Costs. Here to hoping it sells out. DROP TIME HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED HERE:.
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When generative art uses AI to reflect, everything becomes possible. #feedback #generativeart #creativeai
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10 WETH Offer for @ClaireSilver12 s genesis piece. No way. Will start thinking about it at 600 ETH.
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Coming to NFT Paris - in both physical and digital form.
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Why is 100% On-Chain so important? . Cause a back-up is NOT needed @CozomoMedici & @artnome. The Art is stored On-Chain and is as secure as your ETH. Here is quick demo of how to view the 100% On-Chain xeno byteGANg being auctioned on @SuperRare Aug 17.
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The byteGANs gonna keep on dancing even when the company hosting the jpegs disappears, cause they are 100% on-chain.
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Reflection Drop Site. Allowlist Open at 12:00 PM EST.Public Mint at 12:30 PM EST. **optimized for MetaMask**.instructions for etherscan also provided.
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The byteGANs have ascended into the blockchain. I renounced ownership of the contract today making them 100% immutable. They can never be changed in any way, by anyone.
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100 New AI Imagined Faces.100% on-chain. Tuesday March 14 3pm PST.more details below.
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The bitGANs have done it again. They have escaped my control and found a way to continue their eternal dance 100% on-chain. Drop will be live Wednesday 12:00pm EST.
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One of the things #CryptoArt has opened my eyes to is that the gender disparity in art is real. Women are even underrepresented in #CryptoPunks where only 38% are female. For my latest CryptoPortrait I trained a GAN on only female punks. Here is the work in progress.
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Have spent 4 months working on Quantum Skull, a new work born in a quantum computer, animated as an NFT, and painted on canvas by one of my robots. Proud to announce that is headed to @Sothebys for the upcoming Natively Digital auction April 18. Watch with the volume on!
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Thanks so much to @Sothebys @Sothebysverse for taking risk on new collection. And thanks most of all to buyer π Donβt know who it is yet but canβt wait to find out. 100% on-chain work went at more than double the estimate. Cool.
primordial skullGANg by @VanArman live result : just sold for $35560 (21.9ETH) in our Contemporary Discoveries sale, Congrats!.Link:
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Some have been asking so thought I would respond with my Plans for 2023. This is not a roadmap, cause roadmaps don't really apply to art projects, they are a business phenomenon. Will start with general plans, then go into details of a bunch of my projects. 1/π§΅
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primordial byteGANg hanging next to 3 Warhols at Sotheby's New York. Will a 100% on-chain piece out-perform the Warhols at auction. We will find out when the auction ends March 15.
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When I made the byteGANs 100% decentralized and inscribed each of their dancing GIFs into a discrete memory slot directly on the blockchain, I created a layer of ambiguity. Are they an Artwork or a bunch of Dancing Coins?. 1/8π§΅
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The @8liensNFT are revealing themselves tomorrow! . Including my interdimensional 1/1. Here is sneak peak, but the resolution will improve, we promise. Good luck on the reveal.
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Cognition - reflective ai - 100% onchain - generated on mint - coming very soon
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Coming 2/1 - Ghosts in the Shell. 144 new bitGANS to close the First Act.
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It is almost impossible to land a big artist's Genesis Piece, but for 7 days only, I have listed @ClaireSilver12 Genesis "Generative Age" for 500 ETH. This is her very first mint, and a prophetic one at that. In 7 days it goes back into my vault.
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Important: . The Guaranteed Allowlist for byteGANS only guarantees you can mint from 12:00-12:30 PM EST and that if you do, one will be available to you. If you do not show up to mint, your slot will be given to someone on the Waitlist after Whitelist Mint closes.
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Coming to π @SuperRare π August 17. xeno skullGANs. 100% on-chain - byteGANs are so digital they don't even have an image file. They are dancing directly on the blockchain where they were inscribed.
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A robot was given simple yet profound instructions:. 1: Try to imagine a face and paint it on a canvas. 2: Stop painting the moment a face is detected.
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πbyteGANs just hit 5000 ETH volumeπ. and most people don't even yet realize how the images are stored 100% on-chain. AI and Decentralization united in their eternal dance. A kilobyte on the blockchain.
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π¨ Important bitGAN Update π¨. Due to popular demand, the new bitGAN drop will use Allowlists. Instead of having drop tomorrow at Noon EST Feb 15, we will be opening up Allowlist Registration at that time, and schedule drop for a later date. Details:
The bitGANs have done it again. They have escaped my control and found a way to continue their eternal dance 100% on-chain. Drop will be live Wednesday 12:00pm EST.
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Moment my newest painting robot heard about the recent sale of AI Imagined Portrait for 80 ETH. Congrats and thanks to @CozomoMedici, @Pr0mETHe_us, and of course @SuperRare.
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Final hour of bidding for this 36 canvas work. Top bid currently at $80k.
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For years I have been highlighting how my art was created by a collection of AI Agents working with and against each other. But people didn't understand agents, and now they are beginning to, and its all becoming clearer. Painting with visualization of 6 of it's AI Agents.
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Top Ten Cool Things about Beef Brothkos. Have been asked more and more why I think Beef Brothkos (by @toadswiback /@transientlabs) is such an amazing collection, so I have assembled a Top Ten List. 1/11 π§΅
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Confirmed. The podGANs are invading Miami Dec 3-4.
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It's my 5 Year SuperRare Anniversary and am celebrating by introducing byteGAN Physicals. Only available on @SuperRare . Details in the thread. 1/6 π§΅
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Love it when I find old art in a forgotten box. A Proof for a set of 128 AI Faces from 2018. Closely related to my work that was accepted into LACMAs perm collection. Also has been displayed at NFT Museum in Seattle.
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Five years ago I created three early AI Series. Two of them, "AI Imagined Portraits" and "Emerging Faces" were early mints on SuperRare. The third, however, was never released until now. The First Sparks of Artificial Creativity .a 1/1/128 Series.Coming 11/16.Only on @SuperRare
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gm . Last 1/1 postcard giveaway was so popular, going to do a bunch more. All you need to do is β€οΈ so I can randomly select winner. No need to retweet - I hate giveaways that ask you to retweet. So like this tweet for chance at signed 1/1 postcard. And feel free to 'gm'
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byteGANs drop happening in a couple hours at. There are already Collection Offers at Twice the Drop Price. Honored to have such cool collectors!
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All these eyes on the project are finding crazy gems in the Common Cents.
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WOW - response the the 100% On-Chain byteGANs continues to amaze me. Love the support. and to spread that support to other emerging artists, am opening up 200 more Whitelist Spots to people that like and follow the SOVRN-OPEN.
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Crazy week ahead. Tuesday is @brtmoments mint where I am releasing 100 AI Imagined Faces 100% on-chain. Wednesday is the close of the @Sothebys auction for a 1/1 byteGAN. Will be fun.
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I owner minted another and was man am I getting lucky with the draws, then I realized that just about everyone coming out is awesome. Here is my latest Reflection:
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@CozomoMedici If you have to do anything on the block chain in a rush, stop, and donβt do it. 99% of hacks create a massive FOMO moment where you drop your guard and mess up OPSEC because you are in rushβ¦ Then your wallet is gone.
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20 new Quantum Portraits have just finished. Includes people in the space that I have met with, artists, curators, collectors, and just awesome people. QPs are not for sale. Can only be obtained by having a portrait sitting and trading a digital portrait of yours for it.
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podGANs just broke through the 3 ETH wall. I donβt remember it ever being this high.
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Great Drop - It looks like 95% of it will be fairly distributed. For the number of people that were on Whitelist and couldn't mint, I owner minted to cover you. Fill out support ticket on discord, I will personally investigate and set up private sale. Thanks again everyone!.
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5 years ago I knew GANs were going to be big, and it took a bit, but people finally came around. I have an even stronger belief that Reflective AI will become focus of both AI art, and AI in general. Reflection is your chance to get in on it early. Link to mint in Comments.
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Just made a 1 DPI painting with my daughter cause schools out for summer!
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An interesting misconception going around about Rutherford Changβs Cents.is that the 10,000 pennies are AI. They are not. They are 10,000 copper pennies. This makes the collection extremely unusual as most every 10k project is generative.
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Cents hanging with the big boys and establishing itself as one of the premier ordinal collections.
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4000 Total Volume in first Day - Insane. Thanks everyone.
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The next 1/1 byteGANg is available in Sothebyβs Paris Contemporary Auction. Only 11 of these byteGANgs will ever be released, each at a special auction. This one is a GANg of 16 Black and White octo primeGANs. Bid Here:.
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Just put a @SuperRare Space Proposal together called. Serials. The Pitch:. Artists typically use Editions to expand collector base, but Collectors prefer 1/1s. Serials has realized that the answer to this misalignment is large affordable Serial 1/1 Collections. 1/4
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Was it @proof_xyz coverage or is it upcoming @braindrops_art drop, but whatever it was podGANs just broke 2 ETH floorβ¦
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Introducing byteGAN Physicals. Here's to the abundance of Art, but scarcity of NFTs. Details on how to get byteGAN physicals will be revealed on May 23rd, my 5 year @SuperRare Anniversary.
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vaulted this quarter and still sniping, though people keep on beating me to punch recently, go away until later everyone, nothing to see here
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First Round of Guaranteed Whitelist just went out. Sorry to those that didn't make it, but there are two more chances. Biggest one is here where 200 more wallets will be announced tomorrow.
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Next week, there will be an opportunity to purchase a new 100 edition collection of mine - premiering at Bright Moments in Tokyo this May - through a Dutch Auction that will be taking place on Tuesday, March 14th at 3pm PT on the Bright Moments Marketplace. links & moreπ
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ππ New @SuperRare Drop! ππ . The Collaborator 11,464.by Van Arman and the bitGANg. a SR 1/1 with optional physical. Bidding open here: (1/5) More.
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That was fast. The first 10 Reflection presales are complete. For chance at a Presale Invite tomorrow, check them out at the link in the comments and tell us what you think.
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When Sotheby's appraised the . π―% on-chain primordial skullGANg. their estimate was half of what they gave for one of my robot paintings. But I think on-chain digital work is worth more!. Let's show the normie art world how valuable 100% on-chain is at.
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Thank you so much everyone. Wow that was fast and cool. So appreciative - this gives my studio the funding to dive deep into my next drop with my new feedback robots. Stay Tuned.
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Totally honored to be part of this with @SuperRare. Was artist for almost 20 years, and things didn't click until I found them. Poured months and months of effort into the 250 pieces I made for RarePass holders. Hope you enjoy the reveal in a couple days. .
Our first RarePass Airdrop Artist isβ¦@VanArman πβ¨. An award-winning artist who is pushing boundaries with AI, quantum computers, and painting machines. What wild creations does Pindar have in store for RarePass holders??. The series drops on 12/2β¦.
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Big congrats to fellow @braindrops_art artist @ClaireSilver12. 20 ETH floor on her Genesis. Gonna flex with 3 of mine from the collection (all Qualia for those in the know.)
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Warning! DO NOT GET INTO CRYPTOPUNKS!!!. There is no turning back.
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As I see more and more people understanding AI Agents, it is just a matter of time before they realize that my robot paintings are some of the first examples of AI art made with Agentic AI, and have been for almost 15 years. In the recent Reflection series, multiple "expressive"
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