The day before X AE A-Xii, her first child with Elon Musk, was born, Grimes took part in “The Last AI Robot On Earth”, a photoshoot by a Chinese visual artist. Man Chen. The first fruit of this collaboration is an NFT collection, Quiet Noise: Episode 01which is dropping today.
The release includes a limited edition of 500 NFTs priced at $100 each on live arta Web3 platform focused on art and culture.
Silent noise is Chen’s first venture into the world of NFTs and was designed as a multi-chapter experiential adventure providing collectors with additional opportunities and benefits with each new drop.
An NFT from the collection Quiet Noise: Episode 01 by Chen Man. Courtesy of Live Art.
The center image shows the high-end fashion photographer leaning heavily into digital fantasy and manipulation. Grimes stands on the rubble of an urban wasteland surrounded by the fuchsia smoke of rockets and tendrils of multicolored seaweed.
She looks into the camera (and into our souls) with supreme confidence – perhaps such calmness in a moment of collapse stems from her cyborg identity and the fact that she’s wielding a golden sword. The musician, who herself has earned $5.8 million in NFT salesis also pictured wearing a tattered shirt that reads “X AE A-12 MUSK”.
Grimes on the photoshoot with Chen Man. Photo courtesy of LiveArt.
The timing might be coincidental, but at a time of growing anxiety surrounding the potential calamitous directions of AI, Chen and Grimes present an alternative and open-ended approach with the creators expressing a passion for AI, its origin and its future.
“Photography is a fantasy, it allows you to dream, it allows artists to create new worlds,” Chen said in a statement. “This NFT collection has allowed me to have more experimentation with photography. I am much more free to impose my own artistic vision in the genre, to push the limits of photography without any constraints.
Preparatory work for the Grimes NFT. Image courtesy of LiveArt.
The host, LiveArt, was founded by former auction market veterans and differentiates itself from other platforms in part through the use of a token, $ART, which grants holders rewards and exclusive opportunities. “This is one of the most innovative, comprehensive and well-thought-out projects we’ve seen,” Boris Pevzner, CEO of LiveArt, said in a statement. “It has rockets, AI, and the Musks, who are tech royalty. The buzz is off the charts.
After the drop of the “Silent Noise” NFT, the second chapter will feature The memory brickwhere collectors will be “immortalized” by highlighting “biological memories” which will be stored in a hybrid physical-digital work of art.
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