{"id":6134,"date":"2023-04-18T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/ai-on-acid-to-drop-at-nifty-gateway-april-19-2023-nft-culture-nft-news-web3-culture-nfts-crypto-art\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:58:10","slug":"ai-on-acid-to-drop-at-nifty-gateway-april-19-2023-nft-culture-nft-news-web3-culture-nfts-crypto-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/ai-on-acid-to-drop-at-nifty-gateway-april-19-2023-nft-culture-nft-news-web3-culture-nfts-crypto-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAI ON ACID\u201d TO DROP AT NIFTY GATEWAY APRIL 19, 2023\u00a0 | NFT CULTURE | NFT News | Web3 Culture | NFTs & Crypto Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Enhanced Collection of Generative AI Images to Commemorate the\u00a0 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of LSD\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAI on Acid\u201d<\/a> is an experimental conceptual art project by visual artist Glen Wexler who\u00a0 is best known for creating digitally enhanced photocompositions of improbable\u00a0 situations featured on hundreds of album covers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This body of work is an adaptation of the seminal research project \u201cLSD & Creativity\u201d by Los Angeles psychiatrist Dr. Oscar Janiger, who first experienced LSD in 1953 when\u00a0 its manufacturer, Sandoz Pharmaceutical, was seeking medical uses and marketing\u00a0 opportunities for the powerful drug. Impressed with the possibilities, Dr. Janiger\u00a0 embarked on the study of LSD as a catalyst for creativity. The research encompassed\u00a0 all the arts and involved people from all walks of life. Some of the luminaries who\u00a0 participated in the controlled sessions while under the influence of LSD were Aldous\u00a0 Huxley, Alan Watts, Jack Nicholson, Cary Grant, James Coburn and Andre Previn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 1958 to 1962, Dr. Janiger\u2019s research included the study of the effect of LSD on\u00a0 creativity in the visual arts. A Native American Kachina doll displayed in his office was often the subject for his participants to paint or draw.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAI on Acid\u201d endeavors to recreate the results of the artworks created in the study by\u00a0 using a high-resolution photo of the Kachina Doll from the original study along with\u00a0 reference works created during the study as visual prompts for the machine\u00a0 intelligence to generate new unique works. The reference works inform the AI of the\u00a0 artistic styles and medium used in the original study. Wexler selects various outcomes\u00a0 for the AI to remix, and he processes the generative results to individually enhance in\u00a0 Photoshop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cFollowing my recent documentation of nearly 300 works from the\u00a0 original study in preparation for a coffee table book about the artwork from Dr.\u00a0 Janiger\u2019s study, it\u2019s remarkable to see machine intelligence produce results that are\u00a0 randomly unexpected, yet similar to abstract interpretations of the artists in Janiger\u2019s\u00a0 study, ranging from colorful representations to full-blown hallucinogenic deconstructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wexler observes, \u201cFollowing my recent documentation of nearly 300 works from the\u00a0 original study in preparation for a coffee table book about the artwork from Dr.\u00a0 Janiger\u2019s study, it\u2019s remarkable to see machine intelligence produce results that are\u00a0 randomly unexpected, yet similar to abstract interpretations of the artists in Janiger\u2019s\u00a0 study, ranging from colorful representations to full-blown hallucinogenic deconstructions. It occurred to me that the psychedelic experience bypasses the ego\u00a0 and frees the mind to make unexpected neural connections resulting in an altered\u00a0 perception of reality. In a similar manner, artificial intelligence, which presumably is\u00a0 void of ego, is making random associations based on millions of data points. Now <\/span>more than 60 years following the research project, it\u2019s curious to see results that\u00a0 include the Kachina Doll reinterpreted as a Yoda-like figure.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Oscar Janiger <\/b>(1918-2001) was a pioneering American researcher of the\u00a0 psychedelic drugs LSD and DMT. He was the author of \u201cA Different Kind of Healing\u201d and the co-author of \u201cLSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process.\u201d Janiger\u2019s\u00a0 groundbreaking studies depict an important moment in the history of consciousness\u00a0 and reveal the innate creativity of humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Janiger practiced psychiatry and instructed medical students and residents for more\u00a0 than fifty years. He was an associate clinical professor in the department of psychiatry\u00a0 and human behavior at the California College of Medicine, University of California at\u00a0 Irvine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glen Wexler <\/b><\/a>is a visual artist best known for his elaborately staged photocompositions\u00a0 of improbable situations. Works are included in the permanent collections at the\u00a0 George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Los Angeles\u00a0 County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Palm Springs Art Museum, and have been\u00a0 exhibited worldwide including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At 22-years old, Wexler photographed his first album cover for Quincy Jones\u00a0 Productions while a student at Art Center College of Design. He embraced\u00a0 opportunities in the music industry where he found a visual playground in which to\u00a0 hone his craft and vision. Album cover credits include Van Halen, Rush, Black Sabbath,\u00a0 ZZ Top, and many others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Commissioned works include hundreds of advertising campaigns including Acura,\u00a0 Activision, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Maxell, Pepsi, and Sony. Wexler\u2019s editorial work\u00a0 includes featured conceptual photo illustrations for TIME Magazine. Fine art\u00a0 commissions include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also created iconic\u00a0 photographic logos for <\/span>The Star Wars Trilogy <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Batman Forever <\/span><\/i>films.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nifty Gateway <\/b>is a digital art online auction platform for non-fungible token (NFT) art\u00a0 founded by Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster and has since been acquired by\u00a0 the Winklevoss twins. Nifty Gateway teams up with top artists and brands to create\u00a0 exclusive collections of limited edition and high quality NFTs. In March 2021,\u00a0 Nifty Gateway began a partnership with the auction house Sotheby\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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