CURATED: ROOPE RAINISTO

Roope Rainisto is a Finnish artist, designer, and photographer with a passion for storytelling. Rainisto’s work explores the boundaries between the real and the virtual, combining AI-generation procedures with traditional art methods, creating artworks that strive to invoke emotional impact in their viewers.

His latest NFT collection LIFE IN WEST AMERICA ranks amongst one of the highest-valued AI art collections. He is the winner of Claire Silver’s 2nd AI art contest.

Previous to his current art career, Rainisto had a prestigious 25-year career as a professional designer. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Networks from the Helsinki University of Technology.


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RECOLLECTION MACHINE,<meta charset="utf-8"> a series of 10 NFTs by Roope Rainisto, examines human memory and our relationship with technology: our insatiable hunger to create, capture, and consume memories, no matter whether these memories are real or imagined. The transmitted signals compress the richness of experiences into lossy compressed copies, making them more palatable and consumable. 
The cold terminals, the myriad of displays, gather our attention, seemingly plain, neutral, and unadorned. From these devices, moments can be recalled endlessly over until they cease to create emotions in us. The past overcomes the present. We obsess about the past, ignore living in the present, creating memories about watching memories. 
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RECOLLECTION MACHINE is part of the exhibition RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY presented by EXPANDED.ART in collaboration with The NFT Gallery at their galleries in New York and London, 11 April – 13 May 2023. 19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. Memories are nebulous. Scientific studies and phenomena such as "The Mandela Effect" have shown that humans rarely recall things in their unbiased exactitude. Artificial Intelligence already assists human memory in the form of predictive text and GPS navigation. One would surmise that there exists a role for AI when it comes to supplementing even more complex memory. Artists: Ilya Bliznets, <meta charset="utf-8">Crashblossom, Anna Dart, Olga Fedorova, Ross Goodwin, Danielle King, Margaret Murphy, Kika Nicolela, Roope Rainisto, Daria Rastunina, Manuel Rossner, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Anne Spalter, Nathaniel Stern, Sasha Stiles, Stephan Vasement, Nicola Villa, Sabato Visconti, and Erika Weitz. <meta charset="utf-8">ABOUT THE NFT <meta charset="utf-8">Contract address:<a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0x47c15a1d104125d411eebe05c0ec381aaa8efe3c"> 0x47c15a1d104125d411eebe05c0ec381aaa8efe3c</a> Token Standard: ERC-721 Blockchain: Ethereum Metadata: Frozen and decentralized

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Roope Rainisto's AI creations are both instantly recognizable and disturbingly surreal. The Finnish artist embraces AI in all its imperfections and uses it to create AI photographs that are at once intimate and otherworldly. 

Roope Rainisto worked as a designer for over 25 years before fully devoting his career to exploring the field of AI photography. Since then, Rainisto has seen a remarkable rise to fame in the spheres of NFT and AI art. His NFT collection, LIFE IN WEST AMERICA, which explores a distorted vision of the idea of the American West, ranks among the highest-valued AI art collections. The work of Rainisto plays with the brain's innate pattern-seeking abilities by providing viewers with scenes that they have both seen a million times but have yet to encounter, cementing his success in the NFT space.

In conversation with Anika Meier, Rainisto speaks about stretching the boundaries of AI.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND AI

ROOPE RAINISTO: STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY

19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. In collaboration with The NFT Gallery in London and New York. 


AI AND MEMORY 

RECOLLECTION | NEW YORK, LONDON

The exhibition THE PATH TO THE PRESENT, 1954–2024 will showcase artists from different generations, from the early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art and AI.

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THE PATH TO THE PRESENT, 1954–2024 | GALLERY

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Curated by Anika Meier, the exhibition IMAGINE TODAY, 2024 showcases 12 artists who are working with AI today, imagining stories and exploring AI's creative potential.

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