I Robot
In 2018, Burning Man came to the Smithsonian — the Renwick Gallery's "No Spectators" exhibition brought the playa's art into the nation's capital, and hanging among it was Android Jones' "I Robot," created around that year's Burning Man theme of robots and machine consciousness. The piece is Jones staring into his own namesake: an android rendered in his signature electric mandala language, circuitry blooming like lotus petals, a machine caught somewhere between boot-up and enlightenment. Created years before the AI wave broke, it reads more like prophecy, and poses a question: when the machine opens its eyes, what will it worship? From a Smithsonian wall to the palm of your hand, faithfully adapted as a 100mg 24-karat gold aurum.
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“As the alchemical process was to turn lead into gold… I’m fusing these Earth elements, using the electrical element of fire, forging them in the crucible of my own imagination.”
Android Jones
Painting of the Opera
The work of Android Jones has been painted live across the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building, two of the most recognizable buildings in the world.
The man.
The machine.
Android Jones has a personal history with machines. As a kid, he survived a near-death brain surgery that machines helped pull him through — “in an organic world, I would not be having this conversation,” as he’s put it — and the nickname “Android” stuck long before it became his artist moniker. “I Robot” comes out of that history. It’s not a warning about technology, it’s a portrait of it, painted by someone who owes it his life. The painting also has ages well: made well before AI image generators existed, it asked what machine consciousness would look like — and now that question is everywhere, but this piece was there first.
I Robot has now been immortalized on 24-karat gold. Double serialization, individually numbered, made by a human and built to last.
Wired front to back.
We obsess over the details. Our designers spend an enormous amount of time adapting each work of art to ensure a faithful adaptation on our golden canvas.
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Certified authentic.
Each Aurum is double serialized, with one unique serial number on the bill, and one on the certificate of authenticity, or COA. Each COA is sequentially numbered, so you'll know which you got off the production line of our mint.
The serials on every COA are protected by FIPS-compliant holographic, tamper-evident seals. The Aurum bills have the same embedded anti-counterfeiting tech found in the Swiss franc. In short, there's never been a more protected gold collectible or art print.
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Protected by dual layers of flexible polymer, the 24-karat gold inside is safe from scratches and exposure to the elements.
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Big names, small lots. We only mint a small number of first editions, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.
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Fine art has a market (including prints), and gold has a market. Fine art made with gold has appreciation potential across both.
About the Artist
Android Jones
Andrew “Android” Jones cut his teeth in the engine rooms of blockbuster imagination — a concept artist at Industrial Light & Magic who co-founded Massive Black and ConceptArt.org, training grounds for a generation of digital artists — before walking away to invent a genre of his own. He calls it “electro-mineralism,” defined by intricate, luminous paintings built from light and software, where Eastern iconography collides with science-fiction circuitry.
Jones’ canvases have refused to stay indoors, having been projected across the sails of the Sydney Opera House and up the Empire State Building, exhibited at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, and performed live before festival crowds where he paints in real time like a musician plays. A pioneer of digital painting and a pillar of the visionary art movement, Jones makes images that feel more channeled than created.
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