Christie’s held its first auction of AI paintings – three dozen works were sold for $728 thousand.

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An animation by artist Refik Anadol, titled “Machine Hallucinations—ISS Dreams—A,” sold for more than expected, achieving the highest bid of $277,200. The work was generated using a dataset of more than 1.2 million images taken from the ISS and space satellites.

Refik Anadol. Machine Hallucinations – ISS Dreams

American Pindar Van Arman’s “Emerging Faces,” which was billed as another important work at auction, attracted no bids at all. A work by the late American artist Charles Csuri, considered a pioneer of “computer art,” sold for $50,400, below the auction house’s low price. The auction’s total sales were $728,784.