here's another, le comte de belamy, owned by nicolas laugero—lasserre, an urban art collector who, whosecole 42, a coding school also in paris. translation: what truly astonished me about 0bvious is that they created a hybrid between a start—up and artist. what was great, we realised afterwards, was that a form of art that was subversive was brought into the school, which also has a subversive spirit. the discussion goes on about whether computer—generated works can ever be considered art. 0bvious actually told us that the images themselves aren't important — they're making conceptual art — and you need to understand the concept which, in this case, is the ai behind the scenes. it would probably be a mistake, as some have done, to compare the work of obvious with the masters of the early 20th century. perhaps instead, they should be compared to works of artists like damien hirst and jeff koons. and maybe the skill actually lies with the inventor of the generative adversarial network method. google brain researcher ian goodfellow — a surname, which when translated into french, becomes bel