Claire Silver's Genesis Collection Joins OpenSea's Flagship Collection
Claire Silver's Genesis Collection Joins OpenSea's Flagship Collection
🎨 AI Art Gets Flagship
OpenSea adds Claire Silver's Genesis collection to its Flagship Collection, recognizing the pioneering AI art series.
- Genesis features 500 AI-collaborative artworks launched in 2022 on Braindrops
- Explores themes of transcendence, mythology, and rebirth through human-machine collaboration
- Collection showcases marble temples, dissolving human forms, and fragments of lost culture
Major milestone for AI art legitimacy:
- Featured in exhibitions from Los Angeles to global auctions at Sotheby's London and Christie's New York
- Helped establish AI art as legitimate digital fine art
- Became a stable pillar of the AI art movement
OpenSea's inclusion honors Silver as an artist who "didn't just pioneer AI art, she gave it a soul." The collection represents a poetic expression of collaboration between human creativity and machine intelligence.
Joining OpenSea’s Flagship Collection… @ClaireSilver12's Genesis collection, a poetic expression of collaboration between human and machine. Welcome home, native tongue. More below.
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