for place
This algorithm is an experiment in short-form generative art; I’ve released a set of image editions I’m calling “for place”. I’d love to share more about what the name means to me, how I achieved the aesthetics, the core system driving it, the pixel recursion and so on, but the truth is I have a vision now that’s stronger than ever and I have to pour everything I have into making it real.Maybe I’ll rekindle the algorithm once that’s done, and give a proper break-down and share the code or put...
for place
This algorithm is an experiment in short-form generative art; I’ve released a set of image editions I’m calling “for place”. I’d love to share more about what the name means to me, how I achieved the aesthetics, the core system driving it, the pixel recursion and so on, but the truth is I have a vision now that’s stronger than ever and I have to pour everything I have into making it real.Maybe I’ll rekindle the algorithm once that’s done, and give a proper break-down and share the code or put...
Sunrise at Marfa
The universe is profoundly beautiful. When making art, throughout history, we’ve tended towards literal representation and realism: capturing the interplay of light and shadows, the subtle language of forms and compositions, a quest to imitate human visual perception - the image - and how it can make us feel. Now, with software as a medium, we’ve opened up a most infinite possibility space for new kinds of representation. Not just of light, but of any other physical law, real or imagined - th...
Sunrise at Marfa
The universe is profoundly beautiful. When making art, throughout history, we’ve tended towards literal representation and realism: capturing the interplay of light and shadows, the subtle language of forms and compositions, a quest to imitate human visual perception - the image - and how it can make us feel. Now, with software as a medium, we’ve opened up a most infinite possibility space for new kinds of representation. Not just of light, but of any other physical law, real or imagined - th...
There's Paint in my Computer
In Search of the MediumIn 2022, I began to think of my smart contracts as "medium-native artworks." After all, they were designed for and within the EVM and its constraints; they were interoperable, exposed APIs to interact with the visual art, and experimented with blockchain incentives. My thinking went further: they're native to computing arts, digitally native, because they're math equations quantized to the pixel and its RGB color space. Surely, this makes the work special and ...
There's Paint in my Computer
In Search of the MediumIn 2022, I began to think of my smart contracts as "medium-native artworks." After all, they were designed for and within the EVM and its constraints; they were interoperable, exposed APIs to interact with the visual art, and experimented with blockchain incentives. My thinking went further: they're native to computing arts, digitally native, because they're math equations quantized to the pixel and its RGB color space. Surely, this makes the work special and ...
Proscenium
Proscenium is an art algorithm that produces a new kind of landscape painting, abstracted both in form and concept; it creates a generative geometry in three dimensions that starts as the snapshot of a world, and ends as paint texture on canvas. In creating it, I’ve prioritized aesthetic emergence through the interplay of a few simple systems, and even after being my sole focus for more than a year, the algorithm still surprises me in the best ways. For now, I want the work to speak for itsel...
Proscenium
Proscenium is an art algorithm that produces a new kind of landscape painting, abstracted both in form and concept; it creates a generative geometry in three dimensions that starts as the snapshot of a world, and ends as paint texture on canvas. In creating it, I’ve prioritized aesthetic emergence through the interplay of a few simple systems, and even after being my sole focus for more than a year, the algorithm still surprises me in the best ways. For now, I want the work to speak for itsel...
Thanking Sally
Sally is one of those people you feel lucky to meet. She runs a print shop out of her basement, with help from her family, in a small Appalachian town. When I’ve seen her, she is always smiling, and surrounded by beautiful artwork. That’s because her art is printmaking - empowering artists through the physical (re)production of paintings, photographs, digital artworks, or any other two-dimensional representation you can imagine - and she’s a master. In contrast to her unassuming and warm deme...
Thanking Sally
Sally is one of those people you feel lucky to meet. She runs a print shop out of her basement, with help from her family, in a small Appalachian town. When I’ve seen her, she is always smiling, and surrounded by beautiful artwork. That’s because her art is printmaking - empowering artists through the physical (re)production of paintings, photographs, digital artworks, or any other two-dimensional representation you can imagine - and she’s a master. In contrast to her unassuming and warm deme...
