Anonymous AI-Collaborative artist CLAIRE SILVER will have two works represented in Christie’s and Gucci’s Future Frequencies: Explorations in Generative Art and Fashion collection, open for bidding July 18 – 25, 2023. Featured in the auction are “style moderne”—an homage to the Art Deco movement—and “Shinjitai”—a collaborative piece with Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist Emi Kusano.

In each of her works, Silver creatively explores intersectional aspects of fashion, art, and technology. Interplay between autonomous systems, AI, and fashion represents a fusion of disparate ecosystems – overlaying fashion, an industry concerned with garment design and production, onto the worlds of generative art and artificial intelligence, which employ algorithms, modeling, and data to simulate human-like intelligence and artistic output. It’s an invitation to avant-garde thinking, with the motivation to propel radical new ideas and concepts around fashion’s supporting technologies towards future realities.

Claire Silver remarks, “I'm very proud to present two works: ‘Shinjitai,’ created in collaboration with Emi Kusano for Gucci, and ‘style moderne,’ a solo piece for Christie's. ‘Shinjitai,’ which translates to "new character forms," is wearable art that uses AI to merge the storied aesthetic of Gucci with the spirit of Harajuku fashion. Inspired by Art Deco, ‘style moderne’ uses machines to create an intimate digital home for its collector. Combining AI, 3D, film, and advanced mathematical functions with antique paintings and tapestries from China, Japan, and Eastern and Western Europe, both works are intended to celebrate the era of AI: the sophistication of experience, the innocent joy of the new, the depth of cultural heritage, and the light of the future. In the spirit of our digital + physical world, both works include physical components for their collectors--from rolls of fabric to hologram displays.”

The auction—which also showcases Emily Xie, William Mapan, Zach Lieberman, Botto, Helena Sarin, DRAUP, among others--takes places on Christie’s 3.0, a fully on-chain auction platform launched by Christie’s in 2022, and the works will also be highlighted on Gucci Art Space, Gucci’s online gallery space spotlighting and empowering artists by providing them with the freedom and latitude to harness uncharted, innovative concepts and expressions at the intersection of fashion and art, to disrupt and redefine existing norms.



This auction and exhibition is showcased alongside Christie’s seventh Art + Tech Summit happening July 19 & 20 in New York City and the works will be on display at Christie’s at 20 Rockefeller Center July 14-23.

About the pieces



Claire Silver x Emi Kusano, “Shinjitai”

AI, 3D, Film

Christie's 3.0 Claire Silver x Emi Kusano Shinjitai

Claire Silver x Emi Kusano, "Shinjitai"

A neo-classic--bold, discerning, and unafraid of the strange beauty of the new. She is a bohemian cyberpunk with an obsession for Grace Kelly and mecha anime, effortlessly gliding through the neon Harajuku night. Deliberate, delicate, powerful, optimistic. Her mind is sharp. Her heart is young. Her step is sure. Gucci's history is a blooming vine of global aesthetic innovation. New, multimodal materials and movements have found their moment again and again in Gucci's hands. To honor that, the artists used a variety of mediums to create this wearable art. The work was digitally hand-sculpted, and AI was used to texture it with AI-Collaborative art. That art combines advanced mathematical functions with ancient paintings from China, Japan, and both Eastern and Western Europe. The 3D+AI textures are mixed with the aesthetic of tapestries from cultures across centuries. These AI works were then disassembled to their purest forms--shapes and colors--and arranged in a series of abstract collages that glow and dance over the fabric. A laborious process, the work is a love-letter from the artists. It is intended to reflect the sophistication of experience, the innocent joy of youth, the weight of tradition and the light of the future.

In addition to this film piece, the collector will also receive the full ensemble as a 3D file, which may be displayed as a sculpture in metaverse, worn on an avatar, 3D printed, or used in any other 3D digital setting. The collector will also receive the avatar itself.

Finally, the collector is entitled to a physical roll (50 yards) of fabric, printed and embroidered with the piece’s primary AI-Collaborative pattern. This abstract pattern will be the first physical work of fashion from either artist, and arrives with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity.

Claire Silver, “style moderne”

AI, 3D, Film

Christie's 3.0 style moderne

Made using a mix of AI and public domain materials, ‘style modern” reflects on the spirit of the Art Deco movement and its parallels to our age. In Art Deco, all is made beautiful, no matter how humble. Utility and aesthetic are combined, equally important, with the goal of creating a sense of luxury and awe in those who view it. The focus, therefore, is using the industrial and practical to create a divine and intimate experience for human benefit. AI is, at its best, a natural succession of this philosophy. Public domain assets are human creativity set free, and in the spirit of our creative lineage, Claire included them in this piece. Human and machine, the past, present, and future work in harmony to create form and function. AI was used to texture the 3D scene from pieces of AI-Collaborative art. The art combines advanced mathematical functions with ancient paintings from China, Japan, and Eastern and Western Europe, and the 3D textures were combined with tapestries from cultures across centuries. The film was originally public domain, reiterated several times with AI and finished with work done digitally (by hand). In the spirit of abundance, this piece has two additional components:

1) A code entitling the collector to claim the 3D scene and associated files, so they may utilize the space digitally/in metaverse (this claim will take place in March 2024).

2) A physical hologram depicting the centerpiece of the work, the blooming flower. This hologram may be displayed physically however the collector sees fit.