NFT SurR Post: Where Visual Art Meets Technology.
Behind every work is a story. That has been the premise here since 2023 — a place for the backstories, the references, the ideas and inheritances that go into what SurR.Ai makes.
From September 2026 there is a second thing alongside it: the SurR.Ai Registry, a permanent public record of the works themselves.
The two belong together. This publication has always been about the stories behind the work. The registry is the work. A record without its context is a spreadsheet; context without a record is a blog. Here they sit in one place, and they are searchable together.
What you'll find here
Registry entries. One per work, published a work at a time — its number, year, form, where it lives on-chain, its edition status, and a short note on how it was made. Entries are never removed.
Articles. The longer pieces. Where a work carries a story worth more than three lines, this is where it's told — alongside writing on the phygital model, the collectibles market, and the thinking behind the practice.
The Charter. What the registry is, how to verify any work in it, and what it deliberately does not claim. → Registry Charter
The studio
SurR.Ai is the studio identity of the artist Vladi Lepi, working through LV Agency, Inc. of New York. The practice began over a weekend in July 2022 with a first hundred works, before there was a name for any of it. The archive now exceeds 2,500.
The work began as silent visual art — still images and video without sound — and that remains most of the archive. Newer work brings sound in. Throughout, AI is used as a compositional instrument under the artist's direction: the artist does not prompt algorithms, he choreographs them.
More on the practice: Total Art + Tech
Why a registry
Provenance in the art trade is almost always written last — assembled years afterwards from invoices, stockbooks and memory, by people who weren't there when the work was made.
The registry writes it first.
→ The Record Was Always Written Last: The SurR.Ai Registry Opens
Finding things
Everything here sits in one searchable index. Search a series and you get both the entries and the writing about them:
The Subtle Seven · Phygital · Cosmism
Search a registry number for a single work. Search a year for everything catalogued from it.
Browse by label: Registry · AI Art · Phygital · Collectibles
Elsewhere
The Phygital Times — art, sport, culture, technology and markets.
The Future of Collectibles — where art, technology and commerce meet. Weekly, on LinkedIn.
The Pitch Perfect Phygital — an Art + Tech digest for media and collectors. Weekly, on LinkedIn.
Click. Scan. Type. Connect. - SurR.Ai - All the links. All the time. Any time.
The studio: surr.ai · The publication: phygitaltimes.com
LV Agency, Inc. and its studio SurR.Ai participate in the market discussed. Nothing on this site is investment, legal, or tax advice, and no representation is made regarding the future value of any work.
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