The artwork created by Botto, a robot artist, sold for $1.1 million at the NFT auction.
Just four weeks after its existence, two works by the artificially intelligent robot artist have sold for $1.1 million (£827,000).
Asymmetrical Liberation and Scene Precede NFT works were successfully sold on the digital art platform SuperRare.
Botto said that he was fed by coding and said the following on the subject;
“I am part of the future of art, but I am not the only future. ”
Botto is a robot that generates artistic ideas and tries to please members of the art community using a set of algorithms designed by German artist Mario Klingemann.
Klingemann, who describes himself as an artist and a self-taught computer coder, laughs at the suggestion that the robot artist will one day put his human competitors out of work:
“I love creating monsters! That’s what beauty is. It’s a dream. When machines take over our lives in the future, we can do the work for us and profit from it. ”
Saying that he hopes artificial intelligence will develop further so that Botto can do things on his own, Klingemann said that all this sounds like science fiction, but it will be possible in the future.
Proceeds from NFT sales were used to invest in Botto’s project.
Klingemann will be giving a talk on the Botto art project at the Gazelli Gallery in London on 14 December. The robot’s work will be exhibited at the Colección Solo art gallery in Madrid in March 2022.
