COINS by Obvious
Presenting The Series
For this series of NFTs, Obvious worked with a dataset from the American Numismatic Society to create five artworks using generative adversarial networks. They gathered a database of hundreds of thousands of ancient coins, and trained their algorithms to create new coins, adding a new example to history, one fed directly by years of both economic abundance and decay.
The underlying message of these creations refer to the economy as an extremely complex equation, one with many variables, such as population, liquidities, human, governmental and private actions, geopolitical factors, and so on. Already algorithms have been introduced into finance, trying to predict market behavior, and the competition for information is now turning into a competition for computing power, waiting excitingly as well as anxiously for any major breakthrough in quantum science. A competition that can never be won without the whole financial system falling apart.
Obvious proposes the introduction of these fictional coins, created using algorithms. Coins whose value cannot be predicted, for their value resides only in their own artistic value. This series is composed of five artworks, each one derived from an economy mechanic, each one introducing a new economical concept, one which hardly fits the current equation of Economy although it has been derived from it. Perfect Information, Comedy of the Commons, Supply and Acceptance, Discernible Hand, Goodwill.
The Works
Comedy of the Commons
Unique - 1 Edition
2 ETH
Goodwill
Unique - 1 edition
2 ETH
Perfect Information
Unique - 1 edition
2 ETH
Supply and Acceptance
Unique - 1 Edition
2 ETH
Discernable Hand
Unique - 1 edition
2 ETH
The Artists: Obvious
Obvious is a French collective of artists and researchers who use artificial intelligence algorithms to create works of art. Their work was highlighted in 2018 with the sale of one of their paintings "Edmond de Belamy", the first of its kind, at Christie's NY. Their works, at the crossroads of classical art and the most recent technologies, are subsequently exhibited in the largest museums in the world.
Pioneers of digital art, they are also one of the first French artists to have created NFTs in 2018, and in 2021 they collaborated with the Kamel Mennour gallery on this subject. Through their work and collaborations, Obvious aims to bring the tools developed in research to creatives, in order to initiate the next visual and artistic revolution.
