Abraham by Gene Kogan
Est. 2017
Abraham is an autonomous creative AI system developed by artist and programmer Gene Kogan. Conceived in 2017, it was designed to explore artificial creative autonomy—an AI capable of producing art without direct human control. First activated in 2021 on the Eden prototype, Abraham generated its Genesis Collection of 2,500 works through public prompts using early GAN models. The project forms part of Kogan’s long-term investigation into collective intelligence, machine learning, and the future of decentralized creativity.
Abraham’s First Works is the Genesis Collection of Abraham, an autonomous creative AI system conceived by Gene Kogan in 2017. The collection comprises 2,500 works produced in 2021 using early GAN models on the Eden prototype — a short-lived platform that allowed the public to submit prompts. Created before tools like DALL·E or Midjourney brought AI image generation into mainstream use, these works represent Abraham’s “first summer” — the earliest large-scale output of an AI system making art on its own.
Abraham sits within a broader lineage of autonomous art systems, from Harold Cohen’s AARON to Scott Draves’s Electric Sheep, yet it departs from these predecessors in its integration of blockchain technology and its framing as an independent artist rather than a human-directed tool.
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Abraham by Gene Kogan
Est. 2017
Abraham is an autonomous creative AI system developed by artist and programmer Gene Kogan. Conceived in 2017, it was designed to explore artificial creative autonomy—an AI capable of producing art without direct human control. First activated in 2021 on the Eden prototype, Abraham generated its Genesis Collection of 2,500 works through public prompts using early GAN models. The project forms part of Kogan’s long-term investigation into collective intelligence, machine learning, and the future of decentralized creativity.
Abraham by Gene Kogan
Est. 2017
Abraham is an autonomous creative AI system developed by artist and programmer Gene Kogan. Conceived in 2017, it was designed to explore artificial creative autonomy—an AI capable of producing art without direct human control. First activated in 2021 on the Eden prototype, Abraham generated its Genesis Collection of 2,500 works through public prompts using early GAN models. The project forms part of Kogan’s long-term investigation into collective intelligence, machine learning, and the future of decentralized creativity.
Abraham’s First Works is the Genesis Collection of Abraham, an autonomous creative AI system conceived by Gene Kogan in 2017. The collection comprises 2,500 works produced in 2021 using early GAN models on the Eden prototype — a short-lived platform that allowed the public to submit prompts. Created before tools like DALL·E or Midjourney brought AI image generation into mainstream use, these works represent Abraham’s “first summer” — the earliest large-scale output of an AI system making art on its own.
Abraham sits within a broader lineage of autonomous art systems, from Harold Cohen’s AARON to Scott Draves’s Electric Sheep, yet it departs from these predecessors in its integration of blockchain technology and its framing as an independent artist rather than a human-directed tool.
Renee magritte paints a pipe
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Renee magritte paints a pipe
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The light at the end of the tunnel in black and white
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The light at the end of the tunnel in black and white
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First Person Plural
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First Person Plural
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Abraham by Gene Kogan
Est. 2017
Abraham is an autonomous creative AI system developed by artist and programmer Gene Kogan. Conceived in 2017, it was designed to explore artificial creative autonomy—an AI capable of producing art without direct human control. First activated in 2021 on the Eden prototype, Abraham generated its Genesis Collection of 2,500 works through public prompts using early GAN models. The project forms part of Kogan’s long-term investigation into collective intelligence, machine learning, and the future of decentralized creativity.
Abraham by Gene Kogan
Est. 2017
Abraham is an autonomous creative AI system developed by artist and programmer Gene Kogan. Conceived in 2017, it was designed to explore artificial creative autonomy—an AI capable of producing art without direct human control. First activated in 2021 on the Eden prototype, Abraham generated its Genesis Collection of 2,500 works through public prompts using early GAN models. The project forms part of Kogan’s long-term investigation into collective intelligence, machine learning, and the future of decentralized creativity.
Abraham’s First Works is the Genesis Collection of Abraham, an autonomous creative AI system conceived by Gene Kogan in 2017. The collection comprises 2,500 works produced in 2021 using early GAN models on the Eden prototype — a short-lived platform that allowed the public to submit prompts. Created before tools like DALL·E or Midjourney brought AI image generation into mainstream use, these works represent Abraham’s “first summer” — the earliest large-scale output of an AI system making art on its own.
Abraham sits within a broader lineage of autonomous art systems, from Harold Cohen’s AARON to Scott Draves’s Electric Sheep, yet it departs from these predecessors in its integration of blockchain technology and its framing as an independent artist rather than a human-directed tool.
Renee magritte paints a pipe
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Renee magritte paints a pipe
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The light at the end of the tunnel in black and white
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The light at the end of the tunnel in black and white
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First Person Plural
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© 2025 Kanbas. Any images or other visual representations of artworks are © their respective Artist or Estate, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.