Atay Ilgun
@tyaagnliu
artist, creative technologist & curator - Creator of Realiti May, 2019
Realiti No.3 at @Sothebys 'Contemporary Discoveries' Auction, New York. Curated by Luba Elliott @elluba. Bidding open from July 8-15. Info 🧵↓
❤️🔥 music to my ears = artificial scarcity, certified authenticity and enabled digital ownership ❤️🔥
1/9 Why NFTs are a great way to invest in AI (and better than memecoins): AI is reshaping the world as we know it. While many people either believe or came across that statement (maybe fear it), I think most haven't fully attempted to picture what that future will look like.
If you were wondering why A.I.F.X is cypherpunk >
Happily, fren 😉 There are a lot of layers to this; including IRL crypto-raves I was loosely involved with around Berlin and London. Those scenes really borrowed from the cypherpunk ethos: the widespread use of strong encryption and privacy-enhancing tools as ways of enacting…
'In May, a new nonprofit called the Infinite Node Foundation acquired the full intellectual property rights to CryptoPunks from Yuga Labs. In their words, the acquisition marks a new era of “museum-grade conservation” and “evergreen endowment.” In my words: somebody has…
Below is the slide I showed at the recent Creative AI meet‑up in London, curated by @elluba ✨ It was there to talk about how I felt when I first stumbled onto NFTs in early 2018. As a digital artist and publisher, I literally lost sleep over the idea that an artist could…
Emotions are forces that shape our identity. They transform us, revealing what remains alive within us when everything accelerates. Sensus was born to give space to what we feel, to make the invisible visible. Our sensitivity connects us to the world. Know more 👇
outputs that operate as 'ontological cracks' suggesting that RXALITI can still be otherwise
This is what it feels like joining the Realiti collector’s club — cheers mate 💜
Lol. This might be simultaneously the nerdiest and most cypherpunk welcome I’ve ever received. Thank you
sometimes i'm like 'yeh this guy has a point' then i'm like, in 10 years i prob gonna be rolling up in a Lambo with the grandkids to a museum where pieces by 3-4 of my aliases are hanging on the 'CONTENT ART' floor - right next to the 'POP ART' wing.
Calling art and the things you create 'content' devalues it before people even engage with it. Treating it like a product being pushed off an assembly line isn't going to do you any favors with how people perceive and enjoy your work. Take pride in what you do, call it what it is
every collapse of a world-system opens a moment of ontological freedom, a chance to imagine and instantiate a new metaphysics and RXALITI.
Congrats to @permaweave for snagging a RXALITI on the secondary market, one of the ultra‑rare editions that has a Realiti twin 🗻 🔔 Quick heads‑up: some marketplaces can’t handle the .gifs custom server I've built for RXALITI is dishing out. So, if you are seeing 'Unminted…
Technic-driven world systems reduce life to procedural control, leaving little room for magic; the unquantifiable, ineffable dimensions of human RXALITI.
When people say they’d expect Realiti #3 [the lowest edition ever released, bundled with a print] to sell for more than 1 ETH at Sotheby’s, I see it as a sign, an opportunity to observe how they imagine its future. It feels more like a blessing than a disappointment. I never…
![tyaagnliu's tweet image. When people say they’d expect Realiti #3 [the lowest edition ever released, bundled with a print] to sell for more than 1 ETH at Sotheby’s, I see it as a sign, an opportunity to observe how they imagine its future. It feels more like a blessing than a disappointment.
I never…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwV25-5WAAQEkkd.jpg)
whos' ready for the part ii 🦇 Identity Lag in the Vampire Castle of Digital Art 🦇🧛♂️
Back in 2021–2022, I dipped my toe into @tezos @objktcom community, but not gonna lie it didn't seem too welcoming an ETH maxi and native at the time. So I stayed on the sidelines, quietly appreciating the community-driven, art-focused approach from afar. Now, co-curated with…
this will take under 10 min to read and i think is worth everyone's time this week Hito is a living example of why tech requires art
"Hito Steyerl on How It Uses Us" by Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez with @HitoSteyerl The artist explores AI image-making’s material costs and asks how the technology uses the user 📖lerandom.art/editorial/hito…📖 Mentions: @DAcemogluMIT @phillip_isola @annaridler @soficrespo91…
Realiti #12 🏙️ has found its new home with @permaweave. Congrats on your first Realiti, so happy you’ve got such a low edition number and a stunning cityscape after a long while scouting for the right one ✨
If interested in my AI sculptures/instruments mentioned at the Creative AI Meetup, check out the latest XENO FUTURISM issue; showcasing my work alongside insightful critical essays and theory-fiction reimagining technology and AI. ps: fw the fact that website is loki giving M Ξ…
Hey everyone 🌟 On the link below, you can check out the slides from my recent talk at the Creative AI Meet-Up in London, curated by @elluba. It covers a number of topics including Realiti + RXALITI, with a deep dive into noise as an AI material texture in RXALITI. And I also…
RXALITI #155 Minted by @VanArman. This one is one of the rarest 'b1024.conv1' [a deeper, early convolution layer in the neural network] editions. Grateful for the support 🌿