The work (Self-Miracle #555) created by contemporary Chinese image and cross-media artist Cheng Ran in collaboration with the generative art platform Genify and applied science artist Sun Bohan was sold for $144,000 at Sotheby's Digital Art Day Auction on December 18.
The (Self-Miracle) series of generative artworks was first exhibited in September 2024 at an exhibition (Lunar Water) held by the K11 Art Foundation in Seoul, South Korea. It is inspired by Cheng Ran's 2015 film work (Miracle Quest), a 9-hour film supported by the K11 Art Foundation.
This film premiered at the Istanbul Biennial in 2015 and received widespread acclaim. Cheng Ran created a 9-hour film based on three documented events that mysteriously concluded as the film progressed.
In this generative art project, Cheng Ran used experimental film imagery as the visual foundation, revolutionizing his artistic creation. He collaborated with computer art programmer Sun Bohan, exploring the application of algorithms and generative coding techniques to deconstruct and regenerate the temporal elements of film, reducing images to their simplest forms, patterns, and color ranges.
This breaks the traditional boundaries of time, allowing each snapshot to be rearranged and regenerated, creating a brand new temporal landscape. This work is one of the rarest versions in the series.
This year, Cheng Ran collaborated with Genify and Sun Bohan to explore themes of adventure, time, and memory using generative technology. This generative artwork captures image snapshots by the second from the film device, creating unique variations that transcend temporal limitations.
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Cheng Ran was born in China in 1981 and completed the residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands in 2014. He founded the artist organization MARTIN GOYA BUSINESS in 2017, focusing on new media, with works primarily including video and film.
In the early stages of Cheng Ran's career, his films were neither precise nor cinematic, but simply aimed to express personal intimate emotions. Over time, the expression of his works has evolved to a professional level, beginning to explore larger issues through his works. Cheng Ran's video works often revolve around unresolved problems in life, such as identity and death.
Cheng Ran has received multiple awards in the (Best Video Artist) category and participated in the 2015 Istanbul Biennial. His works have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2014), the New Museum in New York (2016), the Sydney Opera House (2019), and the K11 Art Foundation (2024).
Sun Bohan was born in China in 1992 and is an applied science artist and curator active in Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley. He is the founder of SBHStudio and Silicon-based Art, previously founded Bca Technology Art, and is a distinguished lecturer at the International College of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Currently, Sun Bohan is dedicated to promoting the exchange and cooperation between Eastern and Western art technology cultures, focusing on the integration of technology, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and art to explore the construction of a complete, efficient, and standardized art technology ecosystem.
He has curated multiple exhibitions, including the world's first large-scale offline crypto art exhibition 'Virtual Niche' (2021) held at UCCA in Beijing, and China's first large-scale generative art exhibition 'Silicon Valley Future: Tech Generation' (2023). Sun Bohan has participated in several exhibitions, including the K11 Art Foundation, and he is a regular speaker at Stanford University, Tsinghua University, and NFTNYC.
Genify is a global leading multi-chain generative art platform that enables artists to mint and distribute their works on major blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, OKX Xlayer, and Conflux.
Genify has over 200 signed artists and has facilitated the issuance of millions of NFT assets, attracting hundreds of thousands of collectors and artists from around the world, including the United States, Japan, Taiwan, France, the Netherlands, and Brazil. Genify's artworks have been collected by well-known figures such as Zeneca.
The generative artwork (Self-Miracle #555), which was sold at Sotheby's Digital Art Day Auction, was also exhibited at the 'Art Basel Hong Kong' international art fair on December 19, with an audio-visual experience available from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM on December 21.
At the same time, another work by Sun Bohan, Neural Drift, was successfully sold for $13,200.
Neural Drift is an interactive NFT artwork that combines the dynamic effects of neural networks with meme culture. By receiving staking from meme tokens such as DOGE and SHIB, the artwork can adjust its visual display in real-time, with characters drifting in the network to reflect the popularity and volatility of these tokens. Neural Drift captures the transience and cultural impact of the cryptocurrency market, creating a fluid on-chain conceptual artwork.
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