From his studio in Berlin, Holger Lippmann chats with us about his new project “Fractal Tapestries” dropping on Highlight on August 22 as part of Base’s Onchain Summer. “Looking back at my accomplishments over the years, I think I’ve had a continuous drive for structural condensation.” In Holger Lippmann’s pioneering career as a generative artist, spanning decades, there’s a persistent theme of order and chaos, structure and decay, expressed through code. With “Fractal Tapestries,” Lippmann p...

From his studio in Berlin, Holger Lippmann chats with us about his new project “Fractal Tapestries” dropping on Highlight on August 22 as part of Base’s Onchain Summer. “Looking back at my accomplishments over the years, I think I’ve had a continuous drive for structural condensation.” In Holger Lippmann’s pioneering career as a generative artist, spanning decades, there’s a persistent theme of order and chaos, structure and decay, expressed through code. With “Fractal Tapestries,” Lippmann p...

From his studio in Vermont, James Merrill chats with us about his new project, “RUNAWAY,” dropping on Highlight on August 22 as part of Base’s Onchain Summer. James Merrill is running through hundreds and thousands of test outputs on his screen. With two weeks until the release of his latest collection, “RUNAWAY,” he’s finally starting to zoom out from the constant coding and experimentation that have consumed him for months. “‘RUNAWAY’ is about taking the concept of long-form generative art ...

From his studio in Vermont, James Merrill chats with us about his new project, “RUNAWAY,” dropping on Highlight on August 22 as part of Base’s Onchain Summer. James Merrill is running through hundreds and thousands of test outputs on his screen. With two weeks until the release of his latest collection, “RUNAWAY,” he’s finally starting to zoom out from the constant coding and experimentation that have consumed him for months. “‘RUNAWAY’ is about taking the concept of long-form generative art ...

Cosmic Communications is a continuation of Mark Webster's ongoing Cosmic series in which he explores the algorithmic space of typographic signs, symbols and letters using a single typeface. Inspired by the early pioneering work of the concrete poets such as Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ian Hamilton Finley, Steve McCaffe, and Bob Cobbing, this self-authored lexicon of glyphs serves as atomic units that populate Mark's graphic universe with communicative potential. This small collection of...

Cosmic Communications is a continuation of Mark Webster's ongoing Cosmic series in which he explores the algorithmic space of typographic signs, symbols and letters using a single typeface. Inspired by the early pioneering work of the concrete poets such as Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ian Hamilton Finley, Steve McCaffe, and Bob Cobbing, this self-authored lexicon of glyphs serves as atomic units that populate Mark's graphic universe with communicative potential. This small collection of...

sh3ll is an audiovisual artwork created with code, algorithms and blockchain metadata. Its structure is inspired by natural processes that can be replicated through computational tools. The project is part of an ongoing artistic research that explores the invocation of memory and experimental media. Some visual elements reflect the irreversibility and immutability of blockchain technologies and long-form generative art practices.BackgroundAs an artist, I have been creating algorithmic art and...

sh3ll is an audiovisual artwork created with code, algorithms and blockchain metadata. Its structure is inspired by natural processes that can be replicated through computational tools. The project is part of an ongoing artistic research that explores the invocation of memory and experimental media. Some visual elements reflect the irreversibility and immutability of blockchain technologies and long-form generative art practices.BackgroundAs an artist, I have been creating algorithmic art and...

A generative algorithm and its on-screen viewing is a container of rules inside a container of rules inside a container of rules. Rules, rules, rules. As baroque or bare as you want. In this case, kind of byzantine. Unicurse is an arrangement of 12 rooms, halfway between architectural plan and colorful circuit board. Placed together the rooms form a unicursal labyrinth connected in sequence by a thread.The 12 rooms are built in p5.js from a kit of parts - surfaces, structure, podia, cupola - ...

A generative algorithm and its on-screen viewing is a container of rules inside a container of rules inside a container of rules. Rules, rules, rules. As baroque or bare as you want. In this case, kind of byzantine. Unicurse is an arrangement of 12 rooms, halfway between architectural plan and colorful circuit board. Placed together the rooms form a unicursal labyrinth connected in sequence by a thread.The 12 rooms are built in p5.js from a kit of parts - surfaces, structure, podia, cupola - ...

Andrew Benson, aka pixlpa, is a visual artist who has worked in animation and video for over 15 years. For FWB FEST 2023, Highlight is supporting Benson on the release of Energetic Beings, a generative NFT collection that will be co-created with FEST attendees at a live workshop in Idyllwild, California, on Friday, August 4th. nft://1/0xd103Ac967525a16C31Fd457c500cBDDaB3Be00aa/?showBuying=true&showMeta=true Andrew’s entry into coding came through creating art for live performances, primarily ...

Andrew Benson, aka pixlpa, is a visual artist who has worked in animation and video for over 15 years. For FWB FEST 2023, Highlight is supporting Benson on the release of Energetic Beings, a generative NFT collection that will be co-created with FEST attendees at a live workshop in Idyllwild, California, on Friday, August 4th. nft://1/0xd103Ac967525a16C31Fd457c500cBDDaB3Be00aa/?showBuying=true&showMeta=true Andrew’s entry into coding came through creating art for live performances, primarily ...

In conversation about her new collection “Crypto-Native,” dropping on August 22 on Highlight as part of Base’s Onchain Summer, artist Melissa Wiederrecht opens up about the concept behind the work. “The question I kept coming back to was: is it art and do I care?” It was her anxiety as an artist, and specifically a web3 crypto-native gen-artist, that led Melissa Wiederrecht to experiment and question the expectations that have propelled her to worldwide success. At the same time, while “Is it...

In conversation about her new collection “Crypto-Native,” dropping on August 22 on Highlight as part of Base’s Onchain Summer, artist Melissa Wiederrecht opens up about the concept behind the work. “The question I kept coming back to was: is it art and do I care?” It was her anxiety as an artist, and specifically a web3 crypto-native gen-artist, that led Melissa Wiederrecht to experiment and question the expectations that have propelled her to worldwide success. At the same time, while “Is it...

The making of Sum by Duane KingSum is an artwork that celebrates personal identity on the blockchain. It represents a data portrait of a person at a specific time and place in digital space. Sum is a virtual snapshot of you on Ethereum.42-character hexadecimal Ethereum wallet addresses rendered using SumWho am I?My name is Duane King and I’m creative lead at Highlight. I have a long history of brand, product, and interactive design that began with a passion for painting, drawing, and computer...

The making of Sum by Duane KingSum is an artwork that celebrates personal identity on the blockchain. It represents a data portrait of a person at a specific time and place in digital space. Sum is a virtual snapshot of you on Ethereum.42-character hexadecimal Ethereum wallet addresses rendered using SumWho am I?My name is Duane King and I’m creative lead at Highlight. I have a long history of brand, product, and interactive design that began with a passion for painting, drawing, and computer...

In the year 2347, amidst the sprawling techno-urban landscapes, a group of avant-garde tech archaeologists unearthed a digital artifact from the fragmented realms of an ancient blockchain. Named "Decomposizione", the animated artwork, created in 2023, revealed a fascinating synergy between organic decay and digital existence, with its vibrant animations sporadically interrupted by glitches, signs of a slow yet captivating metamorphosis over centuries. Harnessing cutting-edge technology, the g...

In the year 2347, amidst the sprawling techno-urban landscapes, a group of avant-garde tech archaeologists unearthed a digital artifact from the fragmented realms of an ancient blockchain. Named "Decomposizione", the animated artwork, created in 2023, revealed a fascinating synergy between organic decay and digital existence, with its vibrant animations sporadically interrupted by glitches, signs of a slow yet captivating metamorphosis over centuries. Harnessing cutting-edge technology, the g...

«Diaries» is a generative art project by Simon De Mai. The series of 150 unique pieces is available to collect on Highlight platform. Please see the project page for details.The cameraThis project started with a broken camera. Over the summer, I spent a few months in a small house on the coast, immersed in nature. While I was there, the camera on my phone stopped working properly. The pictures were sometimes overexposed, distorted or out of focus. Intrigued by this optical effect, I started e...

«Diaries» is a generative art project by Simon De Mai. The series of 150 unique pieces is available to collect on Highlight platform. Please see the project page for details.The cameraThis project started with a broken camera. Over the summer, I spent a few months in a small house on the coast, immersed in nature. While I was there, the camera on my phone stopped working properly. The pictures were sometimes overexposed, distorted or out of focus. Intrigued by this optical effect, I started e...

Description“Figments” is my first generative collection not done in partnership with another artist. Pieces in this series are a celebration of the thoughts that don't quite make it to reality, the dreams we decide to keep as just dreams. Each piece is a visual representation of these notions, nodding to the joy that is ideating. Playing with the idea of dreaming, both during the day and at night, when folks mint this collection during the night (based on Pacific time), the background co...

Description“Figments” is my first generative collection not done in partnership with another artist. Pieces in this series are a celebration of the thoughts that don't quite make it to reality, the dreams we decide to keep as just dreams. Each piece is a visual representation of these notions, nodding to the joy that is ideating. Playing with the idea of dreaming, both during the day and at night, when folks mint this collection during the night (based on Pacific time), the background co...

DescriptionAs the name suggests, 'Progeny' is an offspring: a fusion of Duane King’s blockchain identity project “Sum” and Felipe Pantone’s physically interactive “Subtractive Variability Manipulable” series. This combination allows viewers and collectors alike to manipulate generated mints and potentially save their own Progenies.StructureJust as printers operate with the CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) color model and displays utilize RGB (Red, Green, Blue), this script is anchored in...

DescriptionAs the name suggests, 'Progeny' is an offspring: a fusion of Duane King’s blockchain identity project “Sum” and Felipe Pantone’s physically interactive “Subtractive Variability Manipulable” series. This combination allows viewers and collectors alike to manipulate generated mints and potentially save their own Progenies.StructureJust as printers operate with the CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) color model and displays utilize RGB (Red, Green, Blue), this script is anchored in...