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Ren

Ren describes the practice as post-humanist AI art. Landscapes, imagined archives and extended fiction recur across a portfolio that includes Paradise Lost and collaborative illustrated narratives.

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Paradise Lost
Official example from Paradise Lost. Artwork © Ren.

A portfolio of imagined worlds

Ren’s official portfolio brings together Lost Memories, American Rust, Museums of AI and other series. These titles and groupings give the practice a broader frame than a single futuristic aesthetic: memory, cultural display and the afterlife of places recur alongside technological speculation. The artist’s own exhibition chronology records presentations with Superchief and Mecenate in 2022, followed by activity in Milan, Los Angeles and Rome in 2023 and further presentations in 2024. These are attributed artist-CV records. [1][2]

Writing Paradise Lost

The artist’s production statement describes Paradise Lost as a graphic narrative with five acts and more than twenty chapters. ChatGPT helped develop scenarios, events and cliffhangers from the artist’s initial idea. Ren identifies consistent characters and locations as a central challenge, addressed through prompting and editing. This distinguishes two kinds of work often collapsed into the phrase AI art: developing the story and maintaining a coherent visual world across many images. The statement frames technology as capable of both empowerment and domination. [3]

From a release to extended fiction

The BrainDrops register dates Paradise Lost to 29 December 2023. Ren’s separate Relics of a Fractured Horizon project, credited with 8nap and Richard Galbraith, combines an extended written narrative with AI imagery. That collaboration helps place Paradise Lost within a practice of world-building across text and image. BD5D reads the continuity as structural: individual pictures are designed to belong to a larger imagined place, and their significance develops through relationships with characters, events and other pictures. [4][5]

BrainDrops releases

Collectors and attribution

Each series dossier links to the sampled wallets that hold it. A wallet holding the collective project All AI Art Looks The Same is not automatically counted as holding work by every participant. Token-level artist attributes are needed to make that more specific claim.

Artist names here are public release credits. Aliases and collaborations are resolved only where the credited record supports the relationship.

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Sources

  1. Ren — artist portfolioArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  2. Ren — exhibition historyArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  3. Ren — Paradise Lost production statementArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  4. Paradise Lost — official release recordPlatform / primary · accessed 2026-10-13

    Official credit, description, launch date and reported supply; not an independent mint audit.

  5. Ren — Relics of a Fractured HorizonArtist, collaborator or presenting organisation · accessed 2026-10-13

    Career or process evidence; release-specific claims are cited separately.

  6. BD5D collector ownership evidenceRead-only chain audit · accessed 2026-10-13

    balanceOf, tokenOfOwnerByIndex and ownerOf at one block for 52 selected wallets.

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