alignDRAW - the first text-to-image artwork from 2015.
By early 2015, neural networks had mastered the art of 'image-to-text' and could create natural language captions for images. Flipping this process, and turning text into image, was a much more complex challenge solved by 19-year old prodigy Elman Mansimov's alignDRAW model.
Fellowship is pleased to present a special release of both print editions and fully on-chain NFTs of this historical artwork, containing all the original images created in 2015.
"alignDRAW images can be compared to the first fixed photographs taken by Niepce in 1826-1827." Dr Lev Manovich
"These images represent the birth of text prompt AI generated imagery." Darius Himes, Christie's
The first text-to-image artwork from 2015.
Fellowship is excited to release the first text-to-Image AI artworks from Elman Mansimov’s alignDRAW, a breakthrough project that marked a new era of human-machine collaboration.
“When we look at the initial low-resolution and hazy images from nearly two centuries ago, we see the whole future potential of photography, which eventually became the dominating imaging and communication technology of our time. And when I look at comparable low-resolution alignDRAW pictures, I see a similar promise for a new major visual method that could very soon become as essential as lens photography was in the last two hundred years.”
— Dr. Lev Manovich (the most cited digital art writer in the world).