Cargo #972 by Kim Asendorf
Cargo by artist Kim Asendorf is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating using his signature Pixel Sorting method. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience. The project adapts itself to whatever screen size it is displayed on, creating an immersive and engrossing experience.
Visit the Cargo project page to experience the full breadth of the project.
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT #116 by Maya Man
At first glance, the simplicity of FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT is easy to dismiss, but as you comb through the variety of of resulting works that make up the collection, Maya Man’s brilliance comes into focus as we recognize it as a mirror that reflects the strange world that has evolved from our interactions with the internet and social media. As Maya puts it, text for the project is “wrapped in the sugar cookie aesthetic world of ‘girl power positive vibes boss babe’ kind of media, imitating the graphics designed to catch your eye as you’re scrolling through your feed.”
Visit the FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT project page on Art Blocks and Man’s dedicated project website to experience the full breadth of the project.
Light Years #22 by Dmitri Cherniak
Working in partnership with the estate of László Moholy-Nagy, artist Dmitri Cherniak’s Light Years combines his highly graphic generative style with Moholo-Nagy’s influences in constructivism and photogrammetry to create an exciting and energetic collection. Cherniak, who says automation is his artistic medium, creates a work that carefully pays homage to the Bauhaus professor while also imparting his own unique ability to craft an algorithm that blends elements that are both unapologetically digital and evocative of being worked by hand all at once. Each of the 100 unique editions was created by a code-based generative system, then hand-prepared and printed to a film negative. Working with one of the best photo printers in the world, the high definition scan of the negative was then used to develop the image as a silver gelatin print which accompanies each work.
Visit the Light Years page on Fellowship to experience the full breadth of the project.
Human Unreadable #111 by Operator
In an astounding work that brings together choreography, code, blockchain, generative art, and cryptography, Human Unreadable will culminate in a live performance that is dictated by the motion data within its individual generative outputs. Operator, made up of Dejha Ti and Ania Catherine, have been in practice as an artist duo since 2016 and seamlessly combine their backgrounds - Ti’s as an immersive artist and human-computer Interaction technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist - to create incredibly ambitious works that go beyond the expectations of either artists mediums to form something wholly unique and provoking. The individual iterations of Human Unreadable offer a focus on human vulnerability featuring silhouettes of the body, veiled by various transparent layers such as glass, light and x-ray, resulting in highly graphic compositions.
Visit the Human Unreadable page on Art Blocks or Operator’s dedicated webpage to learn more and to experience the full breadth of the project.
Petro National #86 by John Gerrard
Petro National is comprised of 196 iterations representative of 196 nations and regions realized as gasoline spills on the world ocean. Each of which reflects its per capita annual consumption of petroleum, with low-consumption countries and regions manifesting a very thin spill leaning towards the blue green spectrum to high-consumption countries and regions being thick, lustrous and highly iridescent forms. Society consumes 100 million barrels of oil every day with radically differing patterns between global north and south.
Each broad consumption category in the works encompasses different atmospheric, wave and sea colour traits which are further affected by the minting seed address.
Each of the 196 generated worlds runs on local time as dictated by the time zone of its capital city. Night, day and seasonality will be experienced across the year in the work with long days in summer and short in winter.
Visit the Petro National page on Art Blocks or on the Pace Gallery site to learn more and experience the full breadth of the project.
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Contractions #96 by Loie Hollowell
Based on her Split Orb sculptural paintings, which she began creating following the birth of her second child, Loie Hollowell’s Contractions center on the artist’s embodied experiences with childbirth. Contractions feature two bifurcated orbs situated one on top of the other, with the top orb representing the artist’s brain and the lower orb signifying her pregnant belly and cervix. This new series brings Hollowell’s explorations of bodily landscapes—with a particular focus on sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood—to the digital realm.
Visit the Contractions page on Art Blocks or on the Page Gallery website to learn more and to experience the full breadth of the project.
Anticyclone #749 by William Mapan
Borrowing aesthetics from traditional drawing techniques and materials, William Mapan’s creates a body of work through his algorithm that feels warm and familiar. The name “Anticyclone” refers to a weather phenomena which acts as the inspiration for the swirling organic forms in the work. Mapan’s use of palette types and grids with varying degrees of fill within them provides a wide array of possibilities. The graphite palette shown here in #749 is one that has resonated in a particularly nostalgic way for me since the projects conception.
Visit the Anticyclone page on Art Blocks to experience the full breadth of the project.
Memories of Qilin #953 by Emily Xie
Inspired by traditional East Asian art, Memories of Qilin channels the sense of movement and fluidity found in classical Chinese brushwork, while drawing from the colors, patterns and forms of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The resulting work from artist Emily Xie is a phenomenal mixture of intersecting organic forms and intricate patterns, blurring our perception of what it means to digital. The series name references a fabled chimerical beast found throughout East Asian mythology that represents prosperity and luck.
Visit the Memories of Qilin page on Art Blocks to learn more and to experience the full breadth of the project.
Polychrome Music #244 by Rafaël Rozendaal and Danny Wolfers (Legowelt)
Dutch composer Danny Wolfers and generative artist Rafaël Rozendaal teamed up to create a deeply satisfying audio-visual project in “Polychrome Music”. The work pairs a generative music system that plays an infinite composition on 3 different audio channels with ever evolving visuals in Rozendaal’s signature minimalist, color blocking style. The resultant collection includes an array of pieces that are deeply absorbing to get lost within as they involve in their sonic complicity over time.
Visit the Polychrome Music page on Art Blocks to learn more and experience the full breadth of the project.
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Primitives #376 by Aranda/Lasch
Primitives is an exploration of the creation of primitive three dimensional clusters created by the arrangement of single modular parts by creative studio Aranda/Lasch. Through this, the duo calls into question ideas of form and geometry, modularity and variability, and historic continuity.
Visit the project on the Art Blocks website to fully experience this dynamic work and read further about the built in ability to export iterations as 3D printable files for the creation of a physical component.
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Hollow #132 by Jacek Markusiewicz
For his project “Hollow”, artist and architect Jacek Markusiewicz takes inspiration from Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida’s proposed project which imagined an immense void inside Tindaya, the Sacred Mountain of Fuerteventura’s indigenous inhabitants. The void measured approximate 45x50x65 meters and was conceived as a space for “all the people” to “fully experience the tininess of humankind”. Markusiewicz takes this project that was never realized and through code, creates a collection of 256 pieces that imagine variations on this dream. Some are graced with human silhouettes who form and fade subtly at the bottom of the voids, while others feature a flock of birds gracefully floating through the air, at times reaching the surface before swooping back down.
Visit the Hollow page on fxhash to learn more and experience the full breadth of the project.
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Garden, Monoliths #133 by Zancan
In his seminal work “Garden, Monoliths”, artist Zancan describes his inspiration forming from spring blooming all around his home, taking over the stones and remnants of ancient battles that stood there. The work utilizes mathematical formulas to create patterns inspired by the density and organic rhythm of nature, which can then be exported to a file to be plotted in pen by machine. The resulting work has an astounding, flowing feel that seamlessly seems to blend its organic inspiration with incredible technical prowess.
Visit the Garden, Monoliths page on fxhash to see more from the collection.
100 Untitled Spaces #24 by Snowfro
Drawing inspiration from Johannes Itten, Robert Irwin and Luis Barragán, artist and Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon, also known as Snowfro, worked with his wife Mara, an architect and designer herself, to craft “100 Untitled Spaces” - a collection of algorithmically generated spaces which comes to life with shadows cast from light pouring through fenestrations into them. In addition to the exploration of generative spaces, the work includes what the artist describe as “an algorithm within an algorithm” as each space includes a an artwork from a formerly created algorithm represented as hung artworks in the virtual volumes. The work was released during an in-person event organized by Bright Moments in Mexico City, the artists home town and the seed of much of the inspiration.
Visit the collection page on the Bright Moments website to learn more and experience the full breadth of the project.
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Bosque de Chapultepec #48 by Daniel Calderon Arenas
Released in Mexico City at a four day celebration of generative art in Mexico City, Bosque de Chapultepec is all about how computers can be used as a form of expression. Taking inspiration from throughout his hometown city, artist Daniel Calderon Arenas draws from Chapultepec Park, a park in the middle of Mexico City that is known as a tropical escape for city dwellers who walk the park's many winding paths surrounded by old trees. The look of the project was based on the Garibaldi from El Globo, a famous bakery in the Mexican Republic. Garibaldi pastries are pound cakes dipped in apricot jam and coated with little round sprinkles called "chochitos".
Visit the collection page on the Bright Moments website to learn more and experience the full breadth of the project.
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LOVE #55 by Martin Grasser
In a first of its kind collaboration, the ATP Tour teams with artist Martin Grasser and the Art Blocks Engine to create “LOVE”, a collection of unique digital artworks that uses in-match sports data to celebrate impactful moments from the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, Italy. Each artwork contains metadata that references a number of in-match statistics such as the players involved, round of the tournament, type of shot, and its speed and direction.
LOVE #55 is representative of a winning forehand shot by Rafael Nadal in a round robin match against Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Of the project, they write, “Our algorithm is built on the idea that there is beauty in the very rules of the game. And one of those rules is the court, a highly regulated environment that is essentially a handful of rectangles and lines. Add a ball—a circle, really—and the formula is complete. What we have is not just a record of incredible skill and sportsmanship, but art, as it were, ready-made.”
Visit art.tennis to view more about the project and the full collection.