
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 ...

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...

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...
systems artist • https://vibes.art/



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 ...

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...

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...
systems artist • https://vibes.art/
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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 it on-chain, but for now, I’m moving on. If there’s interest from full set collectors, I’d consider doing a limited run of high resolution posters. Let me know if you’d be interested.
This might be a hot take, but …
Three years ago, many of us were minting fiverr art for thousands of dollars, treating every release like a shitcoin, and in general having a really good time.
We went through a crushing bear market, and felt like the scene and technology we’d fallen in love with, digital ownership and a new market for digital art and collectibles, were all crumbling around us.
We had to raise our defense mechanisms. We had to wise up. Demonetize the grifts. Protect our financial means to be here in the first place.
Of all the trends we’ve seen, from friendtech to AI agent larps, Rodeo has got to be one of the least offensive and most genuine experiments combining crypto and social media.
Were they to succeed in their mission, taking on incumbents like Instagram, they’d bring digital ownership to the masses. OnBoArDiNg! I know.
But in my view, it’s already inevitable, it’s just a question of when. Personally I’m glad to see folks taking the risk to make it happen in our lifetimes. All of our most valuable JPEGs and hyper-sculptures would see the broader appreciation they deserve. Regardless of what that means for price, if you really care about what we’re doing here, that’s great news! We should be so lucky. I will celebrate the day I never see a paid ad again.
Of course there are flaws, many of which get worked out along the way. I’m glad to see artists like Jack forcing the platform’s hand to address the malleability of images and others, the mint timers. If they really garner attention, I expect we’ll see all the normal web2 playbooks unfold as every competitor clones them and drives the platform take as close to zero as the market and businesses allow.
This is a win for creators and artists. It’s small. But folks who need that extra help, whether it’s real feedback as they work, a little extra financial support to keep them going, or just connecting with more artists they admire and potential collectors who appreciate what makes their work special. Thirty cents is nothing, but with the global scale of the internet, it could really add up.
I decided to stop working on this algorithm, primarily because it was no longer working on me. The intersection of systems creating emergent possibilities beyond what I’d imagined has always been the most exciting aspect of generative work since I first discovered it 16 years ago. That’s why I’m here, and this algorithm became too bespoke, too placed-by-hand.
The rest of this post will be the brief journal entries I made as I worked.
Conceptually, I want this work to invent a new word - like a painterliness, or impasto, but for the artifacts left behind by a computational system. That’s been done, I’m sure, but to imagine it hasn’t or at least not to a degree of unreal greatness in my head gives me a north star to aspire towards.
New compositions leveraging the system’s groundwork:

Using raw pigment data to explore a new color palette:

May 28, 2024
Insisting on water, or similar; a liquid surface:

Capturing a shape, roughly:

Capturing a shape, sharply:

A saturation and lightness gradient:

An ocean’s horizon:

Blending through different color spaces:

Controlling scale:

Controlling direction:

Finding new ways to melt:

Learning to control the system:

Breaking ground; the first output from a new recursive system:

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 it on-chain, but for now, I’m moving on. If there’s interest from full set collectors, I’d consider doing a limited run of high resolution posters. Let me know if you’d be interested.
This might be a hot take, but …
Three years ago, many of us were minting fiverr art for thousands of dollars, treating every release like a shitcoin, and in general having a really good time.
We went through a crushing bear market, and felt like the scene and technology we’d fallen in love with, digital ownership and a new market for digital art and collectibles, were all crumbling around us.
We had to raise our defense mechanisms. We had to wise up. Demonetize the grifts. Protect our financial means to be here in the first place.
Of all the trends we’ve seen, from friendtech to AI agent larps, Rodeo has got to be one of the least offensive and most genuine experiments combining crypto and social media.
Were they to succeed in their mission, taking on incumbents like Instagram, they’d bring digital ownership to the masses. OnBoArDiNg! I know.
But in my view, it’s already inevitable, it’s just a question of when. Personally I’m glad to see folks taking the risk to make it happen in our lifetimes. All of our most valuable JPEGs and hyper-sculptures would see the broader appreciation they deserve. Regardless of what that means for price, if you really care about what we’re doing here, that’s great news! We should be so lucky. I will celebrate the day I never see a paid ad again.
Of course there are flaws, many of which get worked out along the way. I’m glad to see artists like Jack forcing the platform’s hand to address the malleability of images and others, the mint timers. If they really garner attention, I expect we’ll see all the normal web2 playbooks unfold as every competitor clones them and drives the platform take as close to zero as the market and businesses allow.
This is a win for creators and artists. It’s small. But folks who need that extra help, whether it’s real feedback as they work, a little extra financial support to keep them going, or just connecting with more artists they admire and potential collectors who appreciate what makes their work special. Thirty cents is nothing, but with the global scale of the internet, it could really add up.
I decided to stop working on this algorithm, primarily because it was no longer working on me. The intersection of systems creating emergent possibilities beyond what I’d imagined has always been the most exciting aspect of generative work since I first discovered it 16 years ago. That’s why I’m here, and this algorithm became too bespoke, too placed-by-hand.
The rest of this post will be the brief journal entries I made as I worked.
Conceptually, I want this work to invent a new word - like a painterliness, or impasto, but for the artifacts left behind by a computational system. That’s been done, I’m sure, but to imagine it hasn’t or at least not to a degree of unreal greatness in my head gives me a north star to aspire towards.
New compositions leveraging the system’s groundwork:

Using raw pigment data to explore a new color palette:

May 28, 2024
Insisting on water, or similar; a liquid surface:

Capturing a shape, roughly:

Capturing a shape, sharply:

A saturation and lightness gradient:

An ocean’s horizon:

Blending through different color spaces:

Controlling scale:

Controlling direction:

Finding new ways to melt:

Learning to control the system:

Breaking ground; the first output from a new recursive system:

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