Generative art meets floral Photography
Join forces with the AI to create your own personalized piece of art, saved irrevocably on the Ethereum blockchain.
The name you choose becomes the seed used to identify a unique location within the neural network, which once minted is saved on the blockchain and eternally yours.
One of the very first collaborative AI NFT projects!
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You'll need to connect your wallet and sign a message in order to confirm you are the owner of the Noumena before you can download.
Benefits
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Using the tool above 👆, as long as you are the owner you can download a high-resolution version of the image.
Early Access
Owners of a Genesis Noumena nft will get priority access to future collections.
Community
Web3 provides us a unique opportunity to redefine the way we work and creates us the freedom to choose how we invest our time, that's why I've been investing time to help kickstart projects within our small community, as others have also been helping me.
Charity
It almost goes without saying, but there will also be a charitable contribution, for a project that sells out we could donate 20% revenue, but the recipient charities are something we can decide on as a community.
What is Noumena
Noumena was created by Sam (LinkedIn, Instagram), a creative technologist from London, currently based in Shanghai. The Floral collection is a combination of two of his passions, traditional photography and new technology.
How it works
The AI model was trained on a dataset of carefully selected 35mm floral photography (including Sam's own photos 👉) taken with a selection of Contax, Yashica and Olympus cameras, with the objective of reproducing the aesthetics of those particular cameras.
To generate a unique image your chosen name is fed through an algorithm that generates the 512 vectors that are required to pin-point a location within the neural network. The name you choose will always produce the same 512 values and so return the same image from the neural network's latent space. The result is then saved on IPFS and your chosen name is also saved in the smart contract ensuring it can't be used again.
Exploring a new perspective
The name Noumena refers to Kantian philosophy, where Immanuel Kant posited that the way we experience things through our senses (phenomena) and the true nature of the thing, the 'thing-in-itself', the noumena, are not one and the same.
According to Objected-Oriented Ontology art can act like a metaphor, as a way to experience qualities of an 'object' that we don’t normally have access to, by seeing it from a different perspective.
So by collaborating with AI we can attempt to explore the true nature of the flowers, discovering qualities that exist beyond those we are used to seeing everyday, and experiencing them afresh.
What's Next
Upcoming Collections
The next collection will be animated Noumena, more ambitious, technically challenging and diverse than the genesis collection, and will including traits and rarity for increased collectability.
And Beyond
We're also looking forward to building with and investing into our community, whether that involves hosting new artists here on Noumena, or building something brand new, we can decide together.
