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Edmond de Belamy
A portrait trained on 15,000 classical portraits; it became the first AI-generated artwork sold at a major auction house, fetching $432,500 at Christie’s against a $7,000–$10,000 estimate.
AI creative gallery · Verified Oct 11, 2026
See it. Hear it. Decide what counts as art.
A gallery of real AI-assisted work — landmark images, playable songs, films and books — with the people, tools and debates kept in view.
From auction rooms to music videos, this is the work that moved the argument forward.
These pieces do not all use AI in the same way. Some generate images, some separate a voice from old tape, and some put machine-written words into a human-directed form.
Visual art
Four milestones, ordered by year.
Théâtre D’opéra Spatial
A Midjourney image that won the Colorado State Fair’s emerging-artist digital-arts category and ignited a debate about what counts as art.
Music
Press play. These tracks show four very different roles for AI.
Jolene (feat. Holly+)
Dolly Parton’s song sung by Holly+, Herndon’s freely usable AI voice clone — a consensual alternative to unauthorized voice deepfakes.
Heart on My Sleeve
An original song with AI-cloned Drake and The Weeknd vocals; its viral spread and removal forced the music industry to confront unauthorized voice cloning.
Now and Then
Machine learning isolated John Lennon’s voice from a 1978 cassette demo so Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr could finish the final Beatles song.
Where That Came From
Made with Travis’s consent, AI rebuilt his singing voice from more than 40 recordings after a stroke left him unable to sing.
Film
One early cult experiment and one festival winner.
Writing
Two books at opposite ends of the human–machine collaboration.
1 the Road
On a New York-to-New Orleans drive, a neural network turned live camera, microphone and GPS data into prose printed unedited on receipt-paper scrolls.
Tokyo Sympathy Tower
The Akutagawa Prize-winning novel includes about 5% text written verbatim by ChatGPT, according to its author.
About the selection
Each work is credited to its named creator and ordered chronologically within its form. The links lead to the reporting, documentation or original video used to verify it.
From this studio
Like what you see? Hal’s own AI art prints and books — gallery wall sets, guides for seniors, and more — live in the studio shop.