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50 post photography artworks by Michael Neff
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Rules of the Game
by Michael Neff

Neff's Rules of the Game explores familiarity turned askew. The series delves into the typology of fields, courts, and tracks, capturing them from an overhead perspective reminiscent of satellite imagery or drone photography. What initially passes as documentary photography, unravels into an uncanny realm, where the seemingly mundane transforms into the surreal. Lines on familiar fields become too abundant, key equipment is misplaced, roads lead to nowhere, shadows that appear natural lack any tangible source, and perspectives skew like reflections in a warped mirror.

The result provokes questioning the familiar—what are these altered sports called, and by what rules are they governed? Is a racetrack a racetrack if you can’t drive a car around it? Are these mere imitations, akin to Canal Street knock-offs, or perhaps the misinterpretations of a game of telephone, reminiscent of Dürer's rhinoceros? Beneath the surface, it becomes evident that these anomalies are not products of camera tricks, but the outcomes of AI image generation, governed by blackbox rulesets that use observations of relationships to mimic reality, but ultimately fail under human scrutiny.

Each artwork in this series can also be ordered as a photographic C-print by each collector, by contacting the artist through X. Prints will be available at 12 × 12 in. and 20 × 20 in.

Read the full artist statement and place your bid below. Bidding ends at 2:30 est today.

All 50 pieces will be randomly assigned to winning bidders, with the auction set to end today on Verse. Each bidder will be refunded down to the lowest winning bid price, so that each collector pays the same price without risk of ‘overbidding.’

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The Age of Self Indulgence is part of TENDER’s exhibition of post photography AI series M O R E . z i p – exploring the maximalist edges of the medium and each artist’s unique expression. This show is presented on Verse – the premier platform for releasing special, art-forward generative series on Ethereum and across algorithmic and AI works from images, live code, and even on-chain.

Each week we will release a new series on Monday at 2pm EST through a 24h auction, ending on our weekly TENDER Tuesday… a day to celebrate important new works, special artists pushing the medium and their unique vision, and the collectors that propel the movement. TENDER will also host weekly Twitter Spaces to discuss the current release on these Tuesday mornings.

There are currently 8 series by 8 artists in the exhibition, and the list will be growing in the coming weeks. Check out the show’s page to read more about the concept and see more works of the upcoming series: