Mario Klingemann is an artist of and authority on the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to create art and investigate systems. He is particularly interested in human perception of art and creativity, researching methods in which machines can augment or emulate these processes, and has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI art, neural networks and machine learning.

Klingemann is one of the more discerning and critically aware voices in the NFT space, using social media often as a platform to seed and develop arguments and modes of thinking in the space. A critical link between the newness of the NFT community and the well established new media and art/tech communities, Klingemann stands out as a bridge between these two worlds.

Mitosis is a two minute video loop made from over 750,000 AI-generated portraits which Klingemann hopes symbolizes the “challenges, hopes and fears that we are facing in a time where AI is becoming more and more part of our daily lives.” He goes on to suggest that “the changes that it has on our world are often subtle and unnoticeable and we only notice in hindsight that we are in a different place. In our aim to discover something new we head off into different directions. At the same time all the neural models that we train learn from us and our data so in the end when the cycle closes we might just have learned something about ourselves.”

Influenced by David Hockney's "Composite Polaroids" which feature a similar compositional style, Mitosis presents the many faces of AI generated portraits in a composite that sums to one complex, many featured individual portrait. This synthesis of AI, photographic art history as well as the lineage of cubism combines in this work to present something both universal and haunting.

He has worked with prestigious institutions including The British Library, Cardiff University and New York Public Library, and was Artist in Residence at Google Arts and Culture. His artworks have been shown at MoMA New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Photographers’ Gallery London, ZKM Karlsruhe, and Centre Pompidou Paris. Klingemann received the British Library Labs Artistic Award 2016 and in 2018 won the Lumen Prize Gold Award, which celebrates artworks made with technology, and was awarded with the Honorary Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica 2020. His installation Memories of Passersby I made history in March 2019 as the first autonomous AI machine to be successfully auctioned at Sotheby’s.