The 65th Annual Grammy Awards, held last night, February 5, were a standard affair that seemed to generate the most buzz over two wildly unsurprising topics: Beyoncé breaking the record for most career wins while again being passed up for a big award, and Ben Affleck apparently having a horrible time. But amidst an otherwise uneventful ceremony, sharp-eyed digital art aficionados may have noticed a new phenomenon: An artificial intelligence artwork — generated in real time — was displayed on the screens behind the stage.

The trippy, shape-shifting abstract images are the work of Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol, and according to a representative from his studio, the display marked the first time AI art was used in a Grammy broadcast. Anadol has minted his AI pieces as NFTs and sold them at Sotheby’s. It seems only fitting that AI and NFT art would make their Grammy debut at a stadium called the Crypto.com Arena, the new name for the former Staples Center in Los Angeles as of 2021.

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