What kinds of art projects does Mirage Gallery feature?

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Mirage Gallery organizes its output into four distinct project types: Dreamers, Crypto-Native, fully AI-generated artists, and Curated. The right one to explore depends on what you want from the work — a collectible object, an evolving on-chain piece, a fully synthetic artist identity, or AI-assisted art from human creators. Each type has a different authorship model and a different behavior after purchase.

The four project types at a glance

Project type Who or what makes the art What makes it distinct Example
Dreamers Humans and AI together Combines traditional fine art, machine learning, and collectibles Dreamers
Crypto-Native AI-driven, with on-chain evolution Artwork changes when it is resold, across 10 phases Crypto-Native
Fully AI-generated artists Entirely AI Artwork, headshot, and biography are all generated Alejandro & Taylor
Curated Human artists using AI A collection of AI art from artists worldwide Mirage Gallery Curated

Dreamers: fine art plus machine learning plus collectibles

Dreamers is described as "the artistic intersection of humans and artificial intelligence." Each Dreamer combines three elements: traditional fine-art practice, machine learning, and collectibles. If you want a piece that reads as a collectible object while still carrying fine-art and ML provenance, this is the category to start with.

Crypto-Native: art that changes when it is sold

Crypto-Native is the most mechanically unusual type. The artwork evolves when a secondary sale happens. Rather than trading the same file back and forth, each owner holds a unique step in a 10-phase evolution that every artwork passes through.

The practical implication: what you own is a stage, not a fixed image. Before buying, check which phase the piece is currently in, since the version you receive depends on where it sits in that sequence.

Fully AI-generated artists: synthetic from artwork to biography

Mirage Gallery began by creating entirely AI-generated artists. For these, every part of the artist is machine-generated — the artwork, the headshot, and the biography. Alejandro & Taylor are the named examples. This category is the clearest fit if your interest is in AI authorship as a concept rather than AI as a tool used by a human artist.

Curated: AI art from human artists

Mirage Gallery Curated works with artists who are not AI-generated themselves. It is described as building a collection of AI art from artists around the world. Named curated artists include Huemin, Roope Rainisto, Claire Silver, DeltaSauce, Artemis, David Rees, AmliArt, and Charlesai. Featured releases listed on the site include Claire Silver's AI Art is Not Art, Huemin's New Dimension, Revrart's Then and Now: Ever-changing Worlds, KOI's Beyond the Lens, Artemis's THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE RHYMED, and David Rees's Meta Masks.

How to choose

  • Want a collectible with fine-art roots: start with Dreamers.
  • Want ownership that changes over time: look at Crypto-Native, and confirm the current evolution phase first.
  • Interested in AI as the author: explore the fully AI-generated artists.
  • Want AI art made by recognized human artists: browse Curated.

The site also offers Intelligent Member and Sentient Member memberships, which provide early access to curated drops. Membership terms and pricing are not specified in the available material, so confirm details on the site before signing up.