https://underthegan.com New acquisitions and exhibitions from the Under THE GAN archive of early AI art. en https://underthegan.com/exhibitions/learning-the-face https://underthegan.com/exhibitions/learning-the-face Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:00:06 GMT No subject tracks the machine's progress like the human face. In 2015 a network could only gesture at celebrity — smears of eyes and symmetry that read as almost-someone. Within three years GANs were conjuring convincing strangers, then painterly nudes that collectors mistook for expressionism. By 2023 the dreamed face carries a biography: lit, weathered, remembered. Hung in order, these six works are a single decade-long portrait session — the sitter never existed, and the painter slowly opened its eyes. https://underthegan.com/work/jules-birds https://underthegan.com/work/jules-birds Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Flocks of birds generated from latent space, 2026. https://underthegan.com/work/shl0ms-inferior-image https://underthegan.com/work/shl0ms-inferior-image Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT SHL0MS’ Monet experiment reframed a genuine Monet Water Lilies as AI-generated, a stress test for human perception at the edge of the AI era. https://underthegan.com/work/sarah-meyohas-infinite-petals https://underthegan.com/work/sarah-meyohas-infinite-petals Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Endless blooms generated from a dataset of individually photographed rose petals. https://underthegan.com/work/pale-kirill-places-that-never-existed https://underthegan.com/work/pale-kirill-places-that-never-existed Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT A machine dreams landscapes from a childhood it never had — terrain that feels remembered, yet was only ever generated, 2025. https://underthegan.com/work/lindia-dounia-once-upon-a-garden https://underthegan.com/work/lindia-dounia-once-upon-a-garden Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A 2024 generative garden — growth and bloom rendered by AI. https://underthegan.com/work/mendezmendez-skywalker https://underthegan.com/work/mendezmendez-skywalker Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Skywalker, 2024 — a luminous AI composition. https://underthegan.com/work/orkhan-mammadov-relics https://underthegan.com/work/orkhan-mammadov-relics Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Cultural ornament dissolved and reconstructed by a GAN, 2020. https://underthegan.com/work/roope-rainisto-life-in-west-america https://underthegan.com/work/roope-rainisto-life-in-west-america Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Photorealistic, fictional Americana generated as if found photographs, 2021. https://underthegan.com/work/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-infinite-images https://underthegan.com/work/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-infinite-images Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT An endless stream of generated images on authorship and likeness, 2021. https://underthegan.com/work/botto-genesis-works https://underthegan.com/work/botto-genesis-works Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT First works by Botto, a community-governed autonomous AI artist, 2021. https://underthegan.com/work/anne-spalter-ships https://underthegan.com/work/anne-spalter-ships Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Vessels conjured by a network from its memory of the sea. https://underthegan.com/work/ivona-tau-untitled https://underthegan.com/work/ivona-tau-untitled Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Atmospheric generative imagery with the soft grain of memory. https://underthegan.com/work/oxm-0xmons https://underthegan.com/work/oxm-0xmons Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT Fully on-chain generative creatures, computed and stored on the blockchain. https://underthegan.com/work/refik-anadol-tbd https://underthegan.com/work/refik-anadol-tbd Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT A 'machine hallucination' turning vast datasets into flowing motion. https://underthegan.com/work/helena-sarin-tbd https://underthegan.com/work/helena-sarin-tbd Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT 'Neural bricolage' — GANs trained on the artist's own work, 2019. https://underthegan.com/work/fabin-rasheed-latent-saints https://underthegan.com/work/fabin-rasheed-latent-saints Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Latent Saints — figures surfacing from latent space, 2020. https://underthegan.com/work/sven-eberwein-deep-meme https://underthegan.com/work/sven-eberwein-deep-meme Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Internet meme culture generated back as training-data dreams, 2020. https://underthegan.com/work/berk-zdemir-bgan-punks https://underthegan.com/work/berk-zdemir-bgan-punks Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Pixel-punk NFT avatars regenerated through a GAN. https://underthegan.com/work/shortcut-gan-masks https://underthegan.com/work/shortcut-gan-masks Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Ritual masks generated by a GAN. https://underthegan.com/work/anna-ridler-bloemenveiling https://underthegan.com/work/anna-ridler-bloemenveiling Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Machine-learning tulips linking flower auctions to the economies of images, 2017. https://underthegan.com/work/atay-ilgun-realiti https://underthegan.com/work/atay-ilgun-realiti Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A study in synthetic, GAN-generated realism. https://underthegan.com/work/bitcoin-etherislands https://underthegan.com/work/bitcoin-etherislands Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A conceptual, generative island chain held on-chain. https://underthegan.com/work/casey-reas-untitled-film-stills https://underthegan.com/work/casey-reas-untitled-film-stills Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT GAN 'film stills' from films that were never shot. https://underthegan.com/work/lukas-opekar-characters https://underthegan.com/work/lukas-opekar-characters Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A series of invented faces generated from latent space. https://underthegan.com/work/mike-almond-green-topography-set https://underthegan.com/work/mike-almond-green-topography-set Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT GAN-synthesised green, map-like terrains of nowhere. https://underthegan.com/work/bernat-cuni-confusing-coleopterists https://underthegan.com/work/bernat-cuni-confusing-coleopterists Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT The AI beetle generator (DCGAN) trained on "Biologia Centrali-Americana" zoological illustrations. https://underthegan.com/work/damjanski-nude-study https://underthegan.com/work/damjanski-nude-study Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Recorded with the Bye Bye Camera app, which uses neural networks to erase humans from pictures, leaving surreal human traces. https://underthegan.com/work/kevin-romond-good-fortune-with-flowers https://underthegan.com/work/kevin-romond-good-fortune-with-flowers Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A 2019 generative work — blossoming forms emerging from a GAN. https://underthegan.com/work/yuma-kishi-meta-edition-34 https://underthegan.com/work/yuma-kishi-meta-edition-34 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Human form braided together with flora and machine, 2019. https://underthegan.com/work/artonymousartifakt-f-ai-flow https://underthegan.com/work/artonymousartifakt-f-ai-flow Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A flowing field of generated form by a pseudonymous artist. https://underthegan.com/work/coldie-gandinsky https://underthegan.com/work/coldie-gandinsky Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A GAN homage improvising new abstractions after Kandinsky. https://underthegan.com/work/norman-harman-works https://underthegan.com/work/norman-harman-works Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Experiments in the texture and colour of latent space. https://underthegan.com/work/deeplack-deeplack https://underthegan.com/work/deeplack-deeplack Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT A self-titled study in deep generative texture. https://underthegan.com/work/memo-akten-learning-to-see https://underthegan.com/work/memo-akten-learning-to-see Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Real-time GAN reconstructing live video through what it has already learned, 2018. https://underthegan.com/work/tom-white-perception-engines-1-series https://underthegan.com/work/tom-white-perception-engines-1-series Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Abstract prints engineered to be recognised by neural-network classifiers, 2018. https://underthegan.com/work/hans-brouwer-acryl https://underthegan.com/work/hans-brouwer-acryl Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Generative abstraction reaching for the texture of acrylic paint, 2018. https://underthegan.com/work/jacob-horne-r-earthporn https://underthegan.com/work/jacob-horne-r-earthporn Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Sublime landscapes generated from the internet's most-upvoted scenery, 2018. https://underthegan.com/work/robbie-barrat-ai-generated-nude-portraits https://underthegan.com/work/robbie-barrat-ai-generated-nude-portraits Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT A GAN trained on classical nudes, dissolving the figure into colour, 2018. https://underthegan.com/work/b-rd-ionson-oscilloscope-ai-art https://underthegan.com/work/b-rd-ionson-oscilloscope-ai-art Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT AI imagery in the glowing visual language of the oscilloscope, 2019. https://underthegan.com/work/mario-klingemann-tbd https://underthegan.com/work/mario-klingemann-tbd Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT Beautiful GAN-generated and transhanced art portraits, minted in 2020.