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🟦 NEXT UP 🟦 Verse x EXPANDED.ART: GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION Kim Asendorf, Anna Beller, Anna Carreras, Leander Herzog & Richard Nadler, Herbert W. Franke, Anna Lucia, Aaron Penne, Ivona Tau, Iskra Velitchkova, and more. 🗓 20-29 January 📍 Friedrichstr. 67, Berlin

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🟦 EXHIBITION 🟦 STACK TRACE Kim Asendorf & Leander Herzog The artists add the parameter of time to generative art. Coordinated world time (UTC) serves as the main anchor for the synchronization of the real-time multi-channel NFT installation CHROME. 🗓 until 22 February

Gm! @JustinAversano is ready for the opening of his first solo exhibition in Berlin. See you later! 👋

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🟦 Gm from Berlin with @niceaunties, @cyber_yuyu, and @sixela_0x!

#MISAnfts: DEER by @jonas_lund ♾ NFT ✨ Edition: 100 📍 misa.art (#onflow) 💶 250 ➡️ misa.art/collections/solo-nf… Lund drops 3 JLT COLLECTIBLES that can be used as a playable character in his forthcoming game IN SEARCH OF IDEAS.  #flowfest

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"Certainly not everything that is created with the help of computer programs has artistic value, but why shouldn't these simple beginnings one day create something that is on a par with the great works of painting?" – @HerbertWFranke, 1984

🟦 Geoff Davis, pioneer of early computer art, explains why he created and sold art cassettes in the early 1980s with code on them. "Micro Arts was conceived in 1983 as proper experimental digital art, which is why there were different types of releases: generative art, conceptual art, and text generators. Even the fact that I called it art was controversial, which is why "ABSTRACT ORIGINALS" was titled in quotation marks. The Micro Arts generative releases looked like normal microcomputer data cassettes, as sold in their millions, but instead of games, they had generative art, the SCUM Manifesto, two-year-long minimal programs, and endless story generators. Actually, they didn’t look like games, as I designed punk black and white covers. I was selling curated sets of computer art directly to the public. We sold art cassettes via advertisements in the press and posted cassettes with code on them, not music. The code was converted to sound files, which were converted back to code when loaded into the computer. I was modeling Micro Arts on an indie record label. But the market was not there; even games were new then. The audience wanted more games, not abstract art and concepts. The new microcomputers with color had just arrived, and I got one to see what I could do with them. It was great to have a small machine with everything in one place, and the results were amazing. Anyone who does algorithmic art will know the pleasure of seeing the patterns first emerge on screen. I could program, so it was fun to push the boundaries on this teeny little computer, or micro, as they were known. The ones I worked on professionally were huge, hulking monsters kept in special rooms; even the mini-computers were wardrobe-sized. My first foray into programming a microcomputer was to make generative art. I had no idea of the history of the subject; there was practically no information except in rarefied academic circles. My generative art was mostly abstract, time-based progressions. With Micro Arts "ABSTRACT ORIGINALS" I wanted a series of artworks that were different from each other rather than versions of the same thing. There are a range of methods in that collection. Because of the limitations of computer graphics, they naturally have a similar style. This was 8-bit colour with low-resolution screens; that was state-of-the-art for small 'micro' computers."

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🟦 "Good digital art is good art. I want art that is aware of and contextually purposeful with its medium. I want art that shows me something new about our world. I want art that asks hard questions and, even better, proposes how we can move forward and solve problems. I want art that brings me moments of joy, sadness, and curiosity. I want art that stays in my head and is even better when I see it again a year later." – Chris Coleman (@digitalcoleman)

🟦 EXPANDED and the Foundation Herbert W. Franke are delighted that no one other than @AaronPenne, Director of Engineering at @artblocks_io and artist, translated @HerbertWFrake's original code from 1982. Susanne Päch, Franke's wife and Managing Director of the Foundation Herbert W. Franke, worked closely with Penne over several months to translate the original ZENTRUM code for the 2023 release. She supported Franke with feedback when he coded ZENTRUM in the early 1980s.   Penne explains his process:   "The first thing I wanted to do was get an understanding of Herbert's mindset and perspective at the time that he created this artwork. His code was written in AppleSoft Basic in 1982 for the then-cutting-edge Apple II with high-resolution graphics. A whopping 280 by 192 pixels with six colors.   In order to correctly translate his work with aesthetic integrity, I wanted to understand the type of decision-making Herbert would have made. I asked Susanne for any of Herbert's texts from that time period, and she provided several translated essays. In these writings, Herbert discussed the importance of randomness as the key to human creativity and the power of the computer to display infinite artwork as a continuous performance rather than a static image. These are topics that resonate deeply with my practice and are relevant in contemporary software art discussions.   I did not want to just use an Apple II emulator for this project, so I studied and recreated the various visual artefacts that ZENTRUM produced. I used multiple Apple II emulators to run the original code and flew to Phoenix to use my father-in-law's Apple IIe machine for a week to further understand the artwork."

✏️ @Anna___Beller signing her works on paper at the gallery. She is part of the exhibition GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND curated by EXPANDED.ART x Verse. SOLD: 3 of 6 works on paper. 💎 Available on EXPANDED.ART: expanded.art/collections/ann…

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Who will join us for the opening of EXPANDED.ART x Verse: GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND in Berlin tonight? 🗓 20 January ⏰ 6-9 PM CET 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin 🔗 expanded.art/exhibitions/gen…

🟦 UPCOMING EXHIBITION 🟦 EXPANDED.ART is pleased to present the group exhibition A BEATING HEART. FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART on view from 17 May to 4 June at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin. With among others @annespalter, @carlagannis, @claudia75171655.

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👋 Who is going to join us for the opening of RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY in New York? 🗓 13 April ⏰ 2-5 PM 📍 The NFT Gallery | 88 Clinton Street 19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory through creative collaboration with AI.

🟦 OPEN NOW 🟦 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of ALGORITHMIC EMPATHY. THE PROMISES OF AI at our gallery in Berlin. 🗓 until 23 April 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 Presented in collaboration with @verticalcrypto.

🟦 NEW EXPANDED ARTIST 🟦 Welcome Sasha Katz! Sasha Katz (b. 1984) is a visual artist living and working in Athens, Greece. She studied Illustration at the British Higher School of Arts and Design. Since her graduation in 2012, she has been working with 3D. Since 2016, she has been teaching 3D software classes online and serving as a guest lecturer. Katz's artistic journey revolves around the exploration of female sensuality and body poetry. Her work challenges and redefines conventional beauty standards, celebrating diversity and the unconventional.

👋 from Emi Kusano‘s opening at the gallery in Berlin. JPG ⬆️

🟩 SOLD 🟩 EXPANDED is proud to announce the acquisition of STUDY 34 (2024), a collaborative painting created by Sougwen Chung and D.O.U.G., into the collection of @NiwinEth. ▪️ Acquired for 2.61 ETH Sougwen Chung's work investigates the interactions between mark-made-by-hand and the mark- made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems. A former research fellow at MIT, @Sougwen Chung is a pioneer of human and machine collaboration. There, they programmed and built robots named D.O.U.G. (Drawing Operations Unit Generation_X). These machines mimic the artist’s hand-drawn gestures and synchronously draw along with them The custom robots make marks in a feedback loop with the artist, generating sketches based on neural nets trained on Sougwen’s drawings gestures and biometrics.

🟦 OPENING 🟦 👋 Join us! GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION EXPANDED.ART x @verse_works 🗓 20 January ⏰ 6-9 PM CET 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin The artists @RichardNadler1, @Anna___Beller, @RossnerManuel, @BanzBowinkel and @schwittlick_ will be present.

Gm from New York! We‘re open!

👋 Join us! Crashblossom, Ilya Bliznets, Anna Dart, Olga Fedorova, Ross Goodwin, Danielle King, Margaret Murphy, Kika Nicolela, Roope Rainisto, Daria Rastunina, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Anne Spalter, Nathaniel Stern, Sasha Stiles, Sabato Visconti, Erika Weitz, and more.

🟦 EXPANDED and @FellowshipAi are delighted to present AUNTIEDOTE, @niceaunties' first solo exhibition in Germany, on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin. On view will be new surreal videos from the AUNTIEVERSE created by the artist with AI, showing a world where every suppressed being could exist freely and without judgement. 🗓️ 23 APRIL – 11 MAY 2024 🪩 OPENING: 23 APRIL 2024 | 6-9 PM CET ❗️ The artist will be present. 📍 EXPANDED Showroom | Friedrichstraße 67, Berlin

🔲 GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT by Foundation Herbert W. Franke Day 1️⃣: HALL OF FAME w/ among others, speakers and guests: ▪️ Frieder Nake (@CarlCanary) ▪️ @HansDehlinger ▪️ @AaronPenne ▪️ @JeffGDavis from @artblocks_io ▪️ @AnneSpalter ▪️ Caroline Csuri (@CharlesCsuri) ▪️ @Ganbrood ▪️ @Seth Goldstein from @brtmoments

🟦 NEXT UP 🟦 EXPANDED.ART x The NFT Gallery: RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY Olga Fedorova, Danielle King, Roope Rainisto, Manuel Rossner, Sasha Stiles, Nathaniel Stern & Anne Spalter, Sabato Visconti, Erika Weitz and more… 🗓️ 11 April - 13 May 📍New York | London

🟦 SOLD 🟦 LINE CUBE #10 by @HansDehlinger. In the collection of @way2collector. In the 1980s, Hans Dehlinger created a series of cubes as pen plotter drawings. Almost 40 years later, the now-84-year-old artist returned to this topic, and 10 new cubes, titled LINE CUBES, are emerging from code as "aesthetic events". A fascination with cubes is visible in Hans Dehlinger‘s work from the very beginning of his artistic expression. Among his early drawings is a series of digitally manipulated cubes, originally produced in 1986/87 on a small pen plotter. Larger drawings followed as he gained access to a larger plotter in subsequent years. One of the works from this series, a silkscreen print of CUBE 4, was Hans Dehlinger‘s first contribution to SIGGRAPH in 1989.

🟦 FINAL DAY 🟦 Tomorrow is the last day to visit STACK TRACE, the duo show exhibition by Kim Asendorf and Leander Herzog. ⏰ 11 AM - 6 PM 📍 Friedrichstraße 67, Berlin

🟦 ON VIEW 🟦 EXPANDED.ART x Verse: GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION The exhibition aims to define a point in history where a network of artists are generating abstract works with algorithms and codes. 🗓 20-29 January 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin

🟦 NOW REPRESENTING 🟦 EXPANDED.ART is delighted to announce our representation of the Estate of @HerbertWFranke. Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022) was a pivotal figure in bridging the gap between art and science.

👋 Gm! We‘re done installing the exhibition CODED CUBES. In the 1980s, @HansDehlinger created a series of cubes as pen plotter drawings. Almost 40 years later, the now-84-year-old artist returned to this topic, and 10 new cubes are emerging from code as "aesthetic events" titled LINE CUBES.

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🟦 The EXPANDED COLLECTORS CLUB is a community for art appreciators in pursuit of enriching their individual collecting journeys through unique and memorable experiences. Held online and IRL across the globe (on special occasions), through exclusive studio visits, thought-provoking discussions, and more. ▪️ No strings attached.
▪️ No mint passes.
▪️ No keys. ✨ Just an interest in community, curation, culture, and collecting.

🟦 BERLIN ART WEEK 🟦 Visit us next week during Berlin Art Week.

🟦 REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024. AI IN CONTEXT #2 How long is the future? The exhibition is part of the AI Biennale in Essen. Curated by Anika Meier for EXPANDED. CONTRIBUTORS
With contributions from Fellowship, Photo Edition Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Kate Vass (Zurich, Switzerland), Blueshift by Diane Drubay (Paris, France), Objkt.one, Office Impart (Berlin, Germany), MUD Gallery (Shanghai, China), KÖNIG GALERIE, and more. ARTISTS: AI
With Kevin Abosch (Kate Vass), James Bloom, Sougwen Chung, Crosslucid, Boris Eldagsen, Far, Amir Fattal (KÖNIG GALERIE), Mishka Henner, Aaron Huey, Kalen Iwamoto, Krista Kim, Mario Klingemann, Emi Kusano, William Latham, Jonas Lund (Office Impart), Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Maria Mavropoulou (KÖNIG GALERIE), Margaret Murphy, Niceaunties (Fellowship), Sasha Stiles (Objkt.one), Skye Nicolas, Jurgen Ostarhild, Marcel Schwittlick, Anne Spalter, Phillip Toledano, UBERMORGEN, aurèce vettier, Ziyang Wu, and more. ARTISTS: AI IN CONTEXT
Herbert W. Franke, Hein Gravenhorst (Photo Edition Berlin), Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss, Claudia Hart, Hans Dehlinger, Heinrich Heidersberger, Gottfried Jäger (Photo Edition Berlin), Pierre Cordier (Photo Edition Berlin), Roger Humbert (Photo Edition Berlin), Karl Martin Holzhäuser (Photo Edition Berlin), Betha Sarasin, Arno Beck, Joachim Bosse, Harto, and more. MEDIA PARTNER
The AI Art Magazine 🔜 More info.

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🟦 Gm! We‘re open! REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024, with Kevin Abosch and Boris Eldagsen

🟦 @HerbertWFranke (1927-2022) was a pivotal figure in bridging the gap between art and science. He was a scientist, author of science fiction, curator, mathematician, physicist, and speleologist. He was a co-founder of Ars Electronica in 1979.

Gm from the opening reception of RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY in New York! 👋

Gm! Welcome to Twitter, @HansDehlinger!

🟦 INTERVIEW 🟦 Only a year ago did the artist behind @niceaunties discover AI. Since then, she hasn't stopped creating the world with AI that is familiar to her from her childhood in Singapore: auntie culture. "Her" aunties are nice; they laugh, cook, travel, and enjoy life. In real life, aunties are strict; they are loving and caring, but they are not nice. Niceaunties is building the AUNTIEVERSE, a world full of images and videos that bring awareness to the struggles in life and are a reminder to be generous with the people in your life and yourself. On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, EXPANDED and @FellowshipAi present the first solo exhibition by Niceaunties in Germany. In conversation with Anika Meier, Niceaunties discuss AI and storytelling, auntie culture and beauty treatments, and criticism of AI and how to deal with it. (Spoiler: don't deal with it!)

🟦 "I can still remember when the Apple was delivered to our house, and we carefully removed it from the packaging like a raw egg. I think we paid around 2,000 German marks for the computer and the two drives. That was a little more money back then than it is today.

In any case, we were very proud to now own such a freely programmable PC ourselves. It looked more like a somewhat strangely shaped typewriter, not particularly spectacular, and in what I thought was a pretty hideous shade of light beige. Herbert soon started writing small graphics programs because, ultimately, that was what Apple was all about. He was particularly interested in those aspects that he considered to be radical innovations in the field of fine art through the use of computers. Even though it was completely clear to him that such systems were still in their infancy and that their great potential would only be revealed in the future.

Unlike other artists who continued to like to plot pictures to hang on the wall, which also corresponded to the conventional idea of art, Herbert saw other dimensions in computers. Herbert, therefore, consistently said goodbye to plotters when he entered the PC world. He saw the glowing screen as the goal of the presentation—the work was not static but dynamic." – Susanne Päch, wife of @HerbertWFranke, in conversation with Anika Meier (@postanika)

🟦 CRYTPO ART SALON LONDON 🟦 Thank you to everyone for joining @AnnkaKultys, @VerticalCrypto Art and us. Among others, @madebyoona, Jehan Chu (@collectionist), Geoff Davis (@microartsgroup), @verisart (Robert Norton & team), @joinzien (@pholsgrove & team), and more.

🟦 Patrick Lichty on PIXEL GRAIN: EXPANDED: Today, everyone has a camera on their mobile device in their pocket. We take photos of our food and our pets, of ourselves, and of our daily lives. What were you interested in photographing back then with your wristwatch camera? Patrick Lichty: This is a crucial point: in 2001, this was much less common. These devices were much less universal than in the 2020s. Considering that 2000 was a critical moment for technoculture, digital art, and so on, going around with a wristwatch camera relatively soon after that was a form of creating an artist's existential photojournal of the time. I wanted to record life from that perspective and note the surreal quality of that vantage point. A 🧵 with selected photographs from PIXEL GRAIN ⬇️ Image: Patrick Lichty, Brooklyn #4 from PIXEL GRAIN, 2001-04

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🟦 EXPANDED is proud to present the international group exhibition THE PATH TO THE PRESENT, 1954–2024, on the occasion of the GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT by Foundation Herbert W. Franke. The exhibition curated by Anika Meier will showcase artists from different generations, from the early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art and AI. On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from about 30 international artists, such as Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, who invented NFTs in 2014, and Herbert W. Franke, who was one of the most influential artists working in the field of art and technology from the 1950s onwards. As early as 1957, Franke proved in his book entitled ART AND CONSTRUCTION that technology "opens up undreamed-of new artistic territory." Franke and generations of artists have consistently explored new territory with analytical methods and the assistance of machines for over 70 years, looking into the future of digital art until they arrived in the metaverse. Herbert W. Franke, Gottfried Jäger, Hein Gravenhorst, William Latham, Jason Salavon, Heinrich Heidersberger, Hans Dehlinger, Lee Mullican, Betha Sarasin, Patrick Lichty, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Operator, Crosslucid, LoVid, Boris Eldagsen, Roope Rainisto, aurèce vettier, Geoff Davis, Bard Ionson, Peter Burr, Travess Smalley, Agoston Nagy, Far, Olivier Bodini, Patrick Tresset, John F Simon Jr., Anne Spalter, Marcel Schwittlick, Mia Forrest, Vikki Bardot, Margaret Murphy, Harto, Reva Fan, and Wubbushi.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening reception of RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY at The NFT Gallery in New York.

🟦 UPCOMING 🟦 TEXT.ILE by Paul Prudence (@MrPrudence) It is his first long-form generative artwork that will also be on view at the Showroom in Berlin. The digital release will utilize Highlight.xyz’s newest long-form generative integration via Worlds on @foundation. 🗓️ 19 December ⏰ 6 PM CET

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🔲 GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT by Foundation Herbert W. Franke Day 1️⃣: HALL OF FAME w/ among others, speakers and guests: ▪️ @SashaStiles ▪️ James Bloom (@crashblossom1) ▪️ Georg Bak (@SNOWCASH432) ▪️ Ana María Caballero (@CaballeroAnaMa) ▪️ Peter Bauman (@monkantony_tez) from @lerandomart ▪️ Julia Staudach (@Tschuuuuly) from @ooeculture ▪️ @Sarah_Ridgley ▪️ Anna Wolf (@NftEconomist)

🟦 EXPANDED.ART is pleased to present SCRAPE, FAR’s (@0xfar) first solo show, at the gallery in Berlin. On view will be a selection of shaped paintings, collages, and lithographs created between 2012 and 2018.

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🟦 TECHNO TERRAIN is an invitation to contemplate the intersection of nature & technology. Through captivating artworks by 16 artists, it reimagines our connection to the natural world, challenging conventional perceptions & delving into the depths of our collective nostalgia.

EXPANDED.ART is delighted to present STACK TRACE, the first duo show by Kim Asendorf & Leander Herzog. The exhibition is comprised of eight works on aluminum and a real-time multi-channel NFT collection, which the artists created as a site-specific installation.

🟦 Gm from Gallery Weekend Berlin with @niceaunties! Tokyo meets Berlin with @StefanLaebe, @r21nomi_px, and @NORIWTS.

👋 Who is old enough to remember floppy disks, typewriters, and cassettes? 🧵👇

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🔲 GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT by Foundation Herbert W. Franke w/ among others, speakers and guests: ▪️ @ciphrd from @fx_hash_ ▪️ @drbillkolomyjec ▪️ @ivonatau ▪️ @sougwen ▪️ @xCROSSLUCID ▪️ @jonas_lund ▪️ @annaluciacodes

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🟦 Thank you to all the artists who attended the artist talk with @HansDehlinger and @piterpasma. @aniacatherine from @operator_______ @jtchomko And the artists from the #genartclub: @loackme_ @dominikus @Paolo_Curtoni @DataNeel jussi (not on Twitter)

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Welcome to our collection, Vera Molnár x @MartinGrasser. THEMES AND VARIATIONS #75

🟦 "In contrast to conventional fine art, there are still no fixed rules and no evaluation system for computer graphics. Those who work in this field therefore have the greatest possible freedom—and far more chance of producing something new, something never shown before—than a painter or graphic artist working with hand tools." – @HerbertWFranke, 1984

Gm! RAUCH UND SPIEGEL by @JustinAversano is now open. 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin

🟦 "ZENTRUM, a significant creation from 1982 by Herbert W. Franke—the computer art pioneer, scientist, and science fiction writer—was developed using an Apple II computer and the Basic programming language. Thus, one of the hottest things in today’s generative art just might be looking to the past of generative art."
 – Jiayin Chen (@curatingthings)

🟦 NFT DROPS 🟦 The NFTs by the artists who are part of ALGORITHMIC EMPATHY. THE PROMISES OF AI will drop this week. 🗓 19 April 🗓 21 April The exhibition opens at the gallery in Berlin on 18 April at 6 PM CEST. Presented in collaboration with @verticalcrypto.

🟦 When @niceaunties send you their portrait for their artist page.

🟦 UPCOMING NFT DROP 🟦 ARTIFICIAL SELF-PORTRAIT by Danielle King 🗓 28 April ⏰ 6 PM CET ▪️ 10 NFTs ▪️ Editions of 3 ▪️ 0.08 ETH King explores memory by using AI to change her own images, resulting in multiple versions of herself that exist simultaneously.

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Gm from Berlin Art Week! @WeidingerAlfred, director @ooeculture, came to visit MACHINE ORGANIC, the solo show by Jennifer & Kevin McCoy.

🟦 RECOMMENDED READING 🟦 "I think the energy of this current hype cycle comes from being in a really uncertain moment. With the climate crisis, with the pandemic, with all these geopolitical tensions happening in the world, I feel like they're connected to the hype cycle in that people are looking for a new hope through technology. And they put excitement into this abstraction of AI, because it seems like an opportunity for something new." – @Sougwen Chung

🟦 The McCoys have arrived in Berlin. We‘re ready to install.

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Installing Herbert W. Franke‘s solo show CODED BEAUTY 👀

🟦 ARTIST TALK 🟦 Danielle King, Skye Nicolas, Margaret Murphy, and Manuel Rossner will discuss memory and AI on the occasion of the opening reception of RECOLLECTION. Moderated by Anika Meier. 🗓 13 April ⏰ 3.30-4 PM 📍 The NFT Gallery | 88 Clinton Street

🟦 Framing @crashblossom1.

🟦 We‘ll bring @niceaunties to Berlin on the occasion of Gallery Weekend. In collaboration with @FellowshipAi. AUNTIEDOTE | 23 April - 11 May 2024

🟦 SOLD 🟦 EXPANDED is proud to announce the acquisition of FACE FEEDBACK III, an early AI video by Mario Klingeman, into the collection of @antagonist4ever. ▪️ Acquired for 6.35 ETH In FACE FEEDBACK III (2017), Mario Klingemann (@quasimondo) employs two generative adversarial networks in a feedback loop, continually pushing them to refine their output toward facial forms. Over time, the feedback loop transforms rudimentary patterns into increasingly coherent facial features—skin texture, eyebrows, eyelashes—exposing its iterative process of learning and self-improvement. FACE FEEDBACK III was exhibited in the exhibition, REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024 on occasion of the AI Biennale in Essen. Curated by Anika Meier, the exhibition brought over 50 international artists, along with platforms and galleries from around the world, to Heilig Geist, a former church in Essen, Germany. Image: FACE FEEDBACK III by Mario Klingemann, 2017, in the collection of @antagonist4ever.

🟦 SOLD 🟦  EXPANDED is proud to announce the acquisition of INFINITE DESCENT, an early AI video by Mario Klingeman, into the collection of @delronde. ▪️ Acquired for 10 ETH Created in 2017, INFINITE DESCENT reflects Klingeman’s early explorations in neural networks, where two AI models continuously feed their outputs back into each other, creating an infinite feedback loop that explores the fragility and instability of AI systems. Mario Klingemann’s work has been exhibited internationally in renowned institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, ZKM Karlsruhe, and MoMA among others.

🟦 NEW EXPANDED ARTIST 🟦 Welcome, @Sougwen Chung! Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, widely considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration. She explores the marks made by hand and the marks made by machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics between humans and systems. Sougwen’s work, MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2), is part of the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the first AI model to be collected by a major institution. Recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum, one of four recipients of the TIME100 Impact award, and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.

🟦 MUSEUM ACQUISITION 🟦 We’re proud to announce that Francisco Carolinum in Linz acquired FIBO by @HansDehlinger. The museum was the first to show an exhibition about the history of NFTs in early 2022. They presented @HerbertWFranke’s solo exhibition titled VISIONARY in early 2023 on the occasion of his 95th birthday. In September 2024, @JustinAversano’s solo show, INTRO-SPECTIVE, will open at the Francisco Carolinum, it is his first museum show.

🟦 UPCOMING NFT DROP 🟦 THE ANGELS by Anna Condo. 🗓 19 April ⏰ 6 PM CEST With THE ANGELS, Anna Condo (@a1111ac011d0) says in a subtle way, "I care about you and your future".

Gm! ZENTRUM by @HerbertWFranke.

🟦 SOLD: SOTHEBY‘S 🟦 DRAKULA (ORIGINAL 03) by @HerbertWFranke for 38,100 USD.

🟦 MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS ISS DREAMS-B by @RefikAnadol, 2020 🔜 REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024 AI IN CONTEXT #2 17-24 November 2024 AI Biennale, Essen

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🟦 "I think it’s a shame that publicly we don’t talk more about quality. There have always and everywhere been artists who could do something, and artists who are not relevant but were expensive. The price tag doesn’t say anything about that. In my time, we didn’t have this problem. There was no talk about our art at all—and that was perhaps just as well, because when art scholars or critics got involved, there was usually a "beating." Today, as then, people only talk about the artists who make a lot of money. But quality becomes a factor of consideration only fifty years later." – @HerbertWFranke in conversation with Charlotte Kent (@Lucy2Scribbles) @TheBrooklynRail, June 2022

🟦 TWITTER SPACE 🟦 👋 Join us for the PIONEERS TALK. Speakers: @MonkAntony_tez, @lerandomart Susanne Päch, Foundation @HerbertWFranke @YesClaudiaHart @SNOWCASH432 @microartsgroup 🎙️ Hosted by @postanika for EXPANDED.ART. 🎧 nitter.app/i/spaces/1BRJjZBrVqBJw

Gm! 🟦 Last chance to see GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION AND BEYOND, curated by EXPANDED.ART x Verse. 🗓 Until 29 January 📍 Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin

Gm! Happy Install Day with @JustinAversano in Berlin!

🟦 EXHIBITION 🟦 EXPANDED.ART is delighted to present the exhibition of early computer art and generative art, THE THINKING MACHINE. PRESENTING PIONEERS, 1953-2023 in collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART. Curated by Anika Meier and Georg Bak.