NEW YORK— Augmented Intelligence, the first artificial intelligence-dedicated sale at a major auction house, closed the morning of Wednesday, March 5, 2025. The auction—which encompassed more than 30 lots with works by respected digital artists—attracted hundreds of bids and the results exceeded pre-sale expectations. The sale totaled $728,784, surpassing its initial estimate. The sale also generated new participants: 37% of registrants were completely new to Christie’s, and 48% of bidders were Millennials and Gen Z.

The highest price in the sale came for a work by Refik Anadol: Machine Hallucinations - ISS Dreams – A, which sold for $277,200, surpassing its high estimate. This work by the esteemed artist is a dynamic painting, employing a data set of more than 1.2 million images taken from the International Space Station and satellites, reimagined through machine intelligence. The painting is a part of Anadol’s project investigating collective visual memories of space, nature, and urbanity, exploring AI’s capacity to imagine new forms of cartographic aesthetics.  

Another notable price came for Embedding Study 1 & 2 by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst which also surpassed its high estimate to achieve $94,500. Part of an exploration into AI’s role in shaping identity, the work emerges from a text-to-image model trained on altered images of Herndon, exaggerating her defining features to interrogate representation. The work came to Christie’s following its inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.

(Press Release)