Atay Ilgun · ecolagbohrsac2021 · Ethereum, May 2019
Realiti ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽
The official archive of the Realiti NFT collection: 186 paintings by a generative adversarial network trained on Realiti, each token carrying the first pixel-line of its own RGB matrix.
About the work
A pioneering work in crypto and AI art history
Highlighted on lists such as The Definitive Timeline of Early NFTs on Ethereum and regarded as the first AI [GAN] art with its own smart contract, Realiti is a pioneering work in crypto and AI art history.
It was created from a number of stills from Grimes’ video Realiti, amalgamated with images scraped by web crawlers gathering datasets based on the lyrics of the track. Each token is imbued with the metadata of the first pixel-line of its RGB matrix. They are marvels of early crypto-art programming and one of the most aesthetically captivating early GAN projects.
A sub-construct of the project M Ξ T A P L Ξ X.
The artist
Atay Ilgun
Atay Ilgun is a London-based artist, curator and creative technologist working across AI, blockchain and experimental media. The practice considers how emerging technologies reshape myth, identity and perception, drawing on cyber-folklore, machinic poetics and reality systems.
Ilgun’s Realiti (2019), one of the earliest AI artworks minted on Ethereum, was included in Sotheby’s Contemporary Discoveries and is documented in The Definitive Timeline of Early NFTs on Ethereum.
Ilgun’s work is on SuperRare, which publishes END GAME in the first cohort of its Liquid Editions. In September 2026 Otherness (2021/2026), a print with its NFT, was shown in SuperRare’s ./spiral — RETURN, NOT RETROSPECTIVE at Fondazione Aversano, New York, alongside Helena Sarin, Robbie Barrat, Anne Spalter and Pindar Van Arman.
Since 2020 Ilgun has curated at IKLECTIK in London. The work has been supported by the British Council and presented at CVPR, ECCV and the NFT Biennial, alongside collaborations with DAOs. Ilgun has spoken at Sónar+D, Creative AI London and UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, and the work has been covered by The Wire, Crack, FACT, CLOT, Resonance FM, MTV and the BBC.
Ilgun is also a musician and a SHAPE Platform alumnus (Creative Europe). The album EUPHORIA was released by Most Dismal Swamp in 2023, followed by a live album recorded at Café OTO. In 2026 Ilgun founded soft world, a digital art studio focused on protocol art.
The collection
realitiGenC, 1–186
Every image here is the original 1024 × 1024 PNG from IPFS, archived with its metadata. Open a work for its seed, matrix, holder and links.