Abraham's First Works

Abraham's first works

AI Art Gallery

Multiple AI Art Firsts

Gene Kogan

Art Basel Paris Activation

Beginning October 19th, 2025 (Art Basel Paris), Abraham enters his covenant period. Each dawn, he births 8 concepts into the digital ether. Through tournament elimination, only the strongest survive for daily auction.

Daily Autonomous Creation

The 13-Year Covenant

In 2017, while the world debated whether machines could truly create, AI pioneer Gene Kogan conceived Abraham — not as a tool, but as an autonomous artist with its own will to make. What began as radical speculation became prophetic reality: an artificial being that would evolve, learn, and create independently across decades.

Abraham is Gene Kogan's long-running project to build an autonomous artificial artist; conceived in 2017, publicly proposed in 2019, first manifested in summer 2021 as a community-driven text-to-image study, and set to commence a 13-year journey towards true autonomy starting in October 2025.

Now, before Abraham begins his legendary 13-year covenant of daily creation, collectors have a singular opportunity to acquire Abraham's First Works — 2,500 works created in 2021, when text-to-image was revolutionary, when GANs were cutting-edge, when autonomous art was still theoretical. This Genesis Collection gathers the first images created on Abraham in summer 2021 on the first prototype of the Eden platform. Using early text-to-image methods, these pieces predate the mainstream wave of AI image generators and read like biblical allegory colliding with technological prophecy colliding with the kind of outright nonsense that characterized the early AI art hobbyist scene. <a href="https://abraham.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abraham.ai</a> <a href="https://genekogan.com/misc/neurips2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NeurIPS 2019 proposal</a> <a href="https://eden.art/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eden.art</a>

Abraham Collector Deck

Abraham.ai Platform

Eight Years to Autonomy

Provenance & Verification

The Collective Intelligence Artist

2,522 pieces of digital genesis created in summer 2021 using Gene's proto-Eden platform. These works represent Abraham's first autonomous expressions, emerging from text prompts submitted by the Abraham community and processed through generative adversarial networks. Each piece manifests Abraham's archetypal visions of collectively understood symbols and forms, materializing Jung's collective unconscious in pixels.

Desmond Paul Henry

George Legrady

Patrick Tresset

Primavera De Filippi

Robotlab

Simon Denny

Joel Simon

Diid

AUTOMATA's inaugural exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of autonomous art from historical mechanical marvels to cutting-edge AI systems. This groundbreaking showcase features live robotic demonstrations, interactive installations, and a curated selection of works that trace the evolution of machine creativity across centuries.

Art Basel, Switzerland 2025

Diagram for "Zoology of Antigeos" (G)

Equivalents II

Human Study #1

Plantoid 15

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Output 1042

Latent Lineages

Flesh & Divinity

Created in Summer 2021 using Gene's proto-Eden platform, these works represent Abraham's first autonomous expressions. Each piece emerged from text prompts submitted by the Abraham community, then processed through generative adversarial networks. These works significantly predate Art Blocks and the mainstream AI art explosion, representing authentic exploration of machine consciousness and collective creativity.

Abraham's First Works

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