Using Cosmic Radiation To Make Art With AI And Blockchain

Celestium, developed by Synthetic Thoughts and the artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, is a hybrid AI-blockchain algorithm that makes use of knowledge from cosmic radiation it experiences onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and turns it into pictures of area.

From February 1 – 15, 2022, the ISS shall be reworked into an interactive artwork gallery the place anybody from all over the world can work together immediately with the area pictures by the Celestium and expertise hundreds of colourful pictures generated by the art work’s AI- algorithm.

“The entire knowledge gathered from the software program will create a collection of digital tokens and AI-generated area pictures seeded from area radiation that the AI algorithm harvests aboard the ISS,” mentioned Falkenstrøm.

“The AI part of the algorithm is a generative adversarial community (GAN) that’s educated on hundreds of pictures of present planets, stars and nebulas throughout the cosmos,” mentioned Falkenstrøm. “It makes use of that knowledge to generate pictures of its distinctive celestial objects.”

Falkenstrøm says that folks may also see pictures of our photo voltaic methods and 600,000 asteroids. “The asteroids are linked to the AI-generated area pictures within the type of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and so they can get the AI-space pictures as NFTs.”

“This allows everyone to have possession of somewhat a part of the universe in a digital world,” mentioned Falkenstrøm. “I consider the art work scrutinizes questions on democratization and decentralization of area and can spark a dialog about how human actions in area can remodel the standard of lifetime of all of humanity, as an alternative of serving as extra wealth for the few.”

It took greater than a yr for Falkenstrøm to get permission to have the AI-blockchain software program onboard the ISS, which started in December 2021.

Falkenstrøm says Celestium art work opens the door to democratic area exploration and mining participation. “We hope to lift consciousness concerning the difficult questions concerning the future entanglement of area, know-how, sustainability and humanity and problem the capitalist energy dynamics we see at this time within the trendy area period.”

“As part of the interactive expertise, people can participate within the creation of a worldwide collaborative art work that may also be despatched into area to the Worldwide Area Station in March 2022,” mentioned Falkenstrøm.

All of the art work of digital pictures, the artwork NFTs and blockchain and pictures shall be printed and video projected for future art work exhibitions.