Pindar Van Arman

The artist.

Pindar Van Arman's series called byteGans refers to a set of artworks created using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques known as "generative adversarial networks" or GANs.

A GAN is a type of neural network algorithm that is trained on a large dataset of images, and can then generate new images that mimic the style and characteristics of the original.

Each byteGan in the series was trained on a set of 8-bit images that Van Arman custom designed himself. Once trained, Van Arman was able to generate thousands of unique variations of the byteGANs including the 36 in this image. Van Arman then took his art a step further and compressed the byteGANs more than 1,000,000X to make them compact enough to be embedded in a single transaction on the ethereum blockchain. This digital image does not rely on file storage, but exists 100% on-chain where the byteGANs will dance for eternity.