The "DeepDream: The Art of Neural Networks" will hold a special benefit and auction in cooperation with, and for the benefit of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Starting Feb. 26 people will have a chance to own one of the artworks created by Google's Dreambots.
Google Research revealed its inceptionist art forms to the public by using algorithms that dig deeper into artificial neural networks in June 2015.
There's no need to worry because the artworks that will be made available for bidding are not the nightmarish images produced by the DeepDreamer with the help of casual users tinkering with the application. The items up for auction are bona fide artist-created images using Google's own artificial neural network.
The featured artists are: Mike Tyka, Memo Akten, Mario Klingemann, Josh Nimoy, James "Pouff" Roberts, Samim Winiger, Jessica Brillhart, Doug Fritz, Alexander Mordvintsev and Michael Ishigaki who are all experienced with the DeepDream, the arts or both.
Just like the Google Research team that discovered its neural networks can produce images as well as it can observe and recognize it, all the featured artists above wanted to take their understanding of machine learning and aesthetic senses further.
"The networks used in this work are trained with natural images from the environment and learn to distinguish objects and parse them into high level features, says the exhibition overview. "[T]hese networks can then also be used to generate new imagery ... based on the learned rules and associations."
The event will auction off the entire limited-edition collection of the DeepDream artworks in a live auction, but interested buyers may continue to bid in a silent bidding after the live auction.
All proceeds will be donated to the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a non-profit organization which aims to bridge the gap between technology and art.
