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Here is some of my art collection. Most of the pieces minted from fx(hash) with a smaller selection from the Art Blocks, Verse, Highlight, C-VERSO & Objkt platforms.
I try to create continuity across the collection through form, colour or artist. Some pieces I've collected are not present as they don't fit into the collection (yet).
This is a constant W.I.P.
One of the finest examples of digital art that I can think of.
Call it "compressionism". It's just so beautiful.
I first knew of p4stoboy through their work on fx(hash) - this was released on the gm studio platform.
I love this work. Sadly the original ones I collected were scammed / stolen from me through a blue check phishing scam (the current owners don't even realise). This is one I had to buy in a different palette.
If anyone wants to sell me a pair in shoreline then please drop me a line. ✌🏼
The membership token of deca.art. It's free. It looks beautiful. Closest thing I'll ever get to an archetype.
I'm a huge landlines fan.
This work pushes into isometric 3D forms which are well used in generative art but with this, the classic landlines palettes meet a really nostalgic almost "stickle brick" deconstructed aesthetic.
This one is still cheap on secondary.
Fred AKA wblut is a total master at isometric forms. I was very happy to collect his first long-form release.
I think artist and friend Marius Watz put me onto Mathias as one to watch.
These are from objkt.
A pre-cursor to the excellent "Factura" drop released on GM.
More from landlines.
A great exploration into geological forms leads into some fantastic coding. You can change these to exhibit in different "modes".
One of those "aha" moments into how digital art can change to our taste / preferences.
Karsten (toxi) is a true pioneer of generative art - as an artist and educator.
This is his take on the classic Cellular Automata and putting it through this insane blender to create this infinitely scrolling terrain.
This piece is a breathtaking example of how code can generative beautiful complex forms.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
The toxi genesis on fx(hash) and the first NFT I ever minted. Ever.
This was November '21. Tezos was hard to get in NYC. I had to ask a friend to send me some.
This piece is an homage to the "Flood Fill". The way it animates and fills is just fantastic. I hope people will come to appreciate animated works more.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Before Atoms' Gaze (see above) there was Noumenon - a thing that sits beyond perception.
A perhaps simple piece - a dithered shape but the digital artifacts taking it further.
This was the first piece by Philip I really felt connected to. There's a real skill to taking on subdivided grids and making them look so interesting. I'm not even sure what Selvedge means but it's a vibe.
Philip went on to create the fantastic Art Blocks - staccato.
Kim is an absolute pixel magician. Undisputed heavyweight champion. RAB is his genesis on fx(hash).
The formal structure of a book put through the ASDF pixel manipulator. It's mesmerizing as the pages distort and dance - deconstructing and rebuilding as the piece runs.
These are animated and must be played to be appreciated.
The NAZCA lines are the basis for this simple concept where horizontal or vertical lines move and cross to form startlingly complex animations and forms.
It took me a while to appreciate this piece but if you run it for a long time then it reveals in marvelous ways.
This is animated and must be played to be appreciated.
I had been a fan of Andreas for a long time as he had released the brilliant Towers (see below) which I had missed.
Device 1 is a huge piece for me. There is nobody else pushing ASCII animation in generative art this way. It's just mind blowing.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Code, type, and motion collapsing into each other. A beautiful new Andreas piece, and it sits perfectly between Device 1 and Towers.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A generative PFP in my gallery - of all the things.
Mark created this follow up to the very cult original SMOL SKULL.
I prefer the ASCII SMOLSKULL version and this fella just winks at you. I fell in love.
I call him Gerald.
A Monte Carlo path tracer made with 5954 characters of code.
I don't have any idea how Piter pulled this off with such little code. A technically great release but also the cute and playful forms really work together to form coherent renders. Love this.
Agglo has been released by Leander in a few various iterations. These were released on 8bidou platform which limited the designs to 8x8 or 24x24 pixel images as they are on-chain.
I managed to get a complete set.
A further exploration of Agglo by Leander. These were released on the verse platform and are animated pieces.
The animations of the pieces are synchronised together.
Created by Geoff Davis in 1984 and now released for the first time.
I'm always down for another take on Stephen Wolfram's cellular automata. Nice pleasing palette and forms on these.
Carlo continues to improve.
I feel like this piece by adam flew a bit under the radar. It's a great take on a space filling algorithm.
The chunky pixel mountains just adding to its charm.
p1xelfool I really know nothing about (I must fix that and do more research).
This piece is totally mesmerising. Pixel rain never looked so good.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Galo puts out consistently great pieces. Printers is a really pleasing looping dithered "ASCII" piece.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Lovely work from rob. These are physicals.
I've been a fan of Pauls work since the 2010's when I saw it via Flickr. His first long-form release.
A classic Cellular Automaton created by the creator of fx(hash) - ciphrd.
This is a hugely important piece for the platform.
I missed the mint (was a few weeks late). Then I didn't quite get into even other the following year. Took me months of waiting on secondary for a nice blue one.
Great.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A remake? A demake of C-SCAPE?
A cellular automata made from Unicode characters? A worthy addition to the toxi canon.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Kim ASDF is back for a colour edition of the cult-like monogrid release. The original monogrid was hard to get so I was incredibly happy to see a new colour release.
I think I minted maybe 3 or 4 to try and get a blue one. The RNG gods blessed with me one on my final roll. Absolutely amazing. This is a crown jewel in my collection.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A beautiful Mishmash.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
MountVitruvius had released Mind the Gap and this is their fx(hash) genesis.
"Shapes on a plane" is hugely literal - taking an isometric grid and adding 3D shapes to build some really beautiful forms. Some look like fractal landscapes while others look like deconstructed toys.
I think this piece is a bit of a gem.
Landlines are back on their alt account.
You might not think much to this piece but it's very very cool as it was the first ever fully on-chain piece minted through fx(hash) using a custom smart contract which I don't understand at all. Right.
This is so utterly smooth.
Andreas back again for a really nice piece. Took me ages to find a coloured one and this pink/green combo just leapt at me.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A really interesting project. "Web" are tokens that are individual web pages. Each page is unique and has been created through some sort of A.I. process.
Very very cool. We need more of this.
Read more about web.
I don't know anything about Julian (must do my research here). This is their genesis on fx(hash).
A really soothing piece. Took me a while of looking through secondary to find one with colour and animation that I vibed with. I think this is a banger.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Really the animation style is fantastic.
An indescribable quality to the work. It's as if a SNES version of Zelda was put through a generative art blender. I want more.
LIA has been creating digital art and installations since the mid 90's. A pioneer for sure.
The genesis by Joshua Davis on fx(hash).
Josh is a true pioneer in gen art. Coming through in the flash days. We met I think in 2000 or 2001 at Ars Electronica. 👴🏼
I really love this release. I can't quite believe I managed to complete a set for a really reasonable price.
A true hidden gem. Fully on-chain.
You can see how this morphed into orbit of influence.
Released on the kohi platform.
Mario AKA quasimondo released this really cool mint for free at an event in New York.
He graciously minted this and gifted it to me.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
This was a fun little release. You entered a text prompt and from this, you generated ASCII art through a transformer model.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Released as part of the AGH show with Andreas and Leander.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Kim pushing his 2D pixel sorting into the 3rd dimension.
This piece is really interesting as each pixel is also a "token". The more you fill the bucket of the art, the fuller it looks.
This feels like a pioneering work.
I sold my piece. Going to leave it here as a reminder to buy it back.
This was a "free" mint based on owning other works from Andreas.
It's really fantastic. It keeps his trademark ASCII aesthetics and pushes it all into the 3rd dimension. Feels like that classic "Elite" game we all grew up on.
Another free mint. Just pure psychedelic pixel sorting goodness.
If towers and Device 1 had an exquisite baby.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
I think this was the first piece I collected on ETH and it took Kim releasing sabotage.
It was released as a series of 256 editions. You had to choose the one you liked and swapped that. I was late to this series so it was amazing going through all the sold editions to find the few left.
Lucky I found one I really vibed with. Another classic piece.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Lee Mullican was a pretty well established artist and teacher from the 1960's onwards.
Somewhere in the 1980's he started experimenting with painting with computers. His works are glitch art before glitch.
The same energy and tension now brought to the screen. Mesmerising would be one word.
I had seen some works sold as NFTs before but I was priced out. So I was thrilled to this reissue of this piece from the Expanded Art team sold as an open edition.
I think I read Lee made 300 digital pieces so I hope one day they open up to collectors.
At 66 years young, Lee created these amazing works using the PC Paintbrush software.
I have thrilled to own a complete collection.
Lee Mullican works are held by the LACMA.
In the mid-1980s at the age of 67, Mullican began working with UCLA’s Program for Technology in the Arts to explore how this signature painting style might translate to the emerging digital imaging technology of the day. Mullican started working with the IBM 5170, equipped with the Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA), and a Summagraphics Summasketch stylus to experiment with painting and drawing on a computer.
Replacing his brush and signature palette knife striations with a clickable mouse and pen-like stylus, Mullican was able to merge the late Surrealist method of automatism with the computer’s instant and precise replication of marks. He stated, “I found that beyond what one thought, the computer as being hard-lined, analytical, and predictable, it was indeed a medium fueled with the automatic, enabled by chance, and accident to discover new ways of making imagery.”
Subdivided cubes and circles on an isometric view. There's just something really strong about this one.
I think it's a bit of an underrated gem.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Dr. Bill is an absolute OG generative artist, creating code by art since the 1970's.
Here he is paying homage to computer arts pioneer Ken Knowlton.
A homage to Herbert Franke's MONDRIAN software developed for the Texas Instruments TI 99/4 home computer in 1979.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Absolutely mesmerising.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Pure Rafaël
Another perfect Rafaël system.
Two more Rafaël composition systems. Simple rules, infinite taste.
I minted a Cargo and it was lovely but not quite right for my collection. So I went through all 999 and found about 10 I would die on a hill for.
This pale green beauty was on my shortlist and I was thrilled to catch a good offer on it. Patience paid off there.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A release on the C-VERSO where you get a chance to preview your art before minting.
An exploration into forces and tension.
Anna had released the great "Art For Walls In Public Spaces" & "Perpetual Oscillations" but this was released on the C-VERSO platform.
What's interesting about this platform is that the mints can be previewed before actually minting. You then get a chance to switch palette or to a new token.
This is a really fun and interesting mechanic - gives you chance to bring my taste into the minting process...However, the site kept on crashing so it was incredibly frustrating. The art is beautiful so...worth it.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A Yazid tribute to Herbert W. Franke (a pioneer of computer art who passed in 2022).
A really colourful and pop take on the work of Herbert & the golden ratio.
If you want to talk in the greats of "net art" then Rafaël must be up there. He's been selling "websites as art" since the early 2000s and I've been a long time fan.
Intersections was released on Art Blocks.
It's mesmerizing as it is "simple". Shrinking or growing shapes overlap to infinity. I can't wait to play this on a large digital display.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
I had lusted after polychrome music for months. But finding one a) I liked b) cheap-ish was a hard patient game.
Eventually I found this absolute beauty. The CGA palette and the 80's-esque tune just totally working for me.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Leander has been making web based works since the late 2000s. I remember Marius Watz telling me they were one to watch.
Imi was inspired by the works of Imi Knoebel and it reveals itself to be an infinitely generating piece. These are though provoking pieces that push the limits of what we think art can and should be.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
The genesis of Leander on fx(hash). A piece that generates a new version on every click. Putting into question of what is the artwork we are purchasing.
This is an interactive piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Do you ever wonder what sound a dump of data creates? You can wonder no more. VLA is exactly this. Do I like this? I'm not sure.
It is good to be challenged and not all art you get first time.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
From what I understand of this piece, Richard used A.I systems to generate images and Leander created code based pixel manipulation techniques.
It's a brilliant and effective blend. Some fall like rain, some melt upwards. One of those pieces you can't wait for it to run on a giant display.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
I missed getting on the Lars Wander train and it took me some time to get an unfolded.
I especially love the more fractured iterations and this pink / green one really resonated.
Am I allowed to be critical? Their work outside of fx(hash) is in my opinion stronger but that might be because these are earlier in their artistic journey.
Their work released on verse and Plottables are brilliant.
I do hope they come back to fx(hash) and release more. I think they are immensely talented.
I had seen artplusbrad release on fx(hash) and Art Blocks so I was really excited when I saw this drop.
"Over the air" just serves me all of these 80's nostalgia driven feels. Static and distortion mixing with almost luminous simple shapes.
I think this is an underrated release.
Eddie just seems to do these stealth drops and I always look forward to them.
A take on box packing but done with a real touch for the palette.
LESSLIE has had quite a few fx(hash) releases but I think inCognita is their standout.
I'm just going to say it. This is pure genius.
Mints of cubes are generated but they are "split" into two halves. Because they are random there might be some that share the same background color or cube.
It's up to the RNG gods to make a set of "lost twins" and then for a collector to put them together.
Like I said. G-E-N-I-U-S
Two Harm systems seeded by the chain. Every twelve seconds, the rules redraw themselves.
Kwame Bruce Busia really came a long way with the absolutely beautiful Tesseract series.
Hyper-graphic isometric water flows over stacked cubes that seem to all be held up together. A visual and spatial illusion. It's just so crisp.
I don't know anything about riis. They have a great eye and a terrible website.
They are going to be huge.
Sarah had released Himinn on Art Blocks and launched on fx(hash) with Eyeshadow Roses (below).
GRAPHEME was part of the tribute to Herbert W. Franke (a pioneer of computer art who passed in 2022).
I had never seen the idea of aesthetics of letterpress printing brought into generative art. Especially as the "hash" of the transaction is present in the artwork.
I'm very glad this piece has had considerable success on fx(hash).
Sarahs genesis on fx(hash) was part of Art Basel Hong-Kong 2022. I'm not much of a representational art collector but I was struck by these quite lovely roses.
I really started to discover the pieces where Sarah is bringing in her print aesthetic as some are over misprinted / have over printed traits.
Anna Lucia working with the quilters of Gee's Bend to turn their designs into a wonderful generative art piece.
I just absolutely love everything about this project.
____ - Iteration 1 / 2 / 3 by Extracurricular Activities
Landlines dropping a really interesting experiment on their alt account. You had to own 3 Iterations to be able to mint #4.
I actually prefer these 1/2/3 Iterations as they come in this fab pink palette.
District by Michael Connolly
Michael is a big favourite of mine. He had released Divisions on Art Blocks and Repeater on fx(hash).
District was released on C-Verso again allowing the minter to preview their mint. This minted quite slowly so it was great to have the time to explore shapes and patterns in Michaels trademark brutalist style.
I love my little running man mint.
Twist is a remarkable piece. Its simplicity leads to complexity as it plays and forms.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Alex is an architect & Assistant Professor at Institute of Architecture and Media.
This is incredibly apparent in their work. If you enjoy plan forms, blocks and isometrics then you will really enjoy their pieces.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Alex is back with another piece imagining digital architectures.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
This piece absolutely works for me. It definitely reminds me of motherboards and circuitry but it has a feeling of a structural drawing printed with a risograph.
A recollection, especially of a supposed previous existence.
A really nice piece.
p1xelfool is back with a sublime piece that almost feels like a flip dot display from train stations.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Herbert W. Franke was a pioneer of computer art who passed in 2022. His work was ported to a generative art system with Aaron Penne.
A pseudonym of Casey Reas.
I totally missed all of these when they were released and never twigged it was the work of Casey.
I think these are going to age well.
The only release by siggi on fx(hash). I feel like this is a bit of a gem.
Divisio(X) by Eltono
Eltono is more well known for their large mural work where they employ random choices principles to create their works.
Their digital generative work is also just so clean. So crisp.
Another super solid release from Eltono.
Took me ages to get a super green boy off secondary.
The fx(hash) genesis from Eltono. Again super clean work. Love.
The genesis from Michael on fx(hash). I'm a huuuuuuuuge Repeater fan. Especially when the piece is so glitched.
I missed the mint on this and really focused on the "Bug" palette. Just something about this that really works for me.
(dis)Mantle by xiiixiii
When Michael released Mantle (see below) there was a mistake on the Allow List so he released (dis)Mantle as to make things up.
I mean what a mint. Repeater + Mantle put through the xiiixiii pixel blender.
Ah come on this a SO COOL. Cloudnoise has a lane and they absolutely rock it.
These are animated pieces and must be played to be appreciated.
TidallyDisruptedStar is a really talented artist with "Cables and Clouds" being their most successful and well known work.
This is a lesser known piece but I think it's really strong.
Solaris is one of the most seminal and symbolic science fiction books of all time.
Iskra turned the major chapters of the story into scenes. I don't recall ever seeing something like this before - a deconstruction of art via generative art.
I'm very fond of this series and would love to collect more scenes. It's a timeless piece.
I've been friends with Marius for many years, initially through work and then hanging out in New York.
I'd always been a huuuuuuuuge fan of their art and when Hic et Nunc came around, Marius started releasing there.
I loved the work but didn't collect due to Covid and an overall apathy to crypto. But I came around.
This is just an iconic piece for me.
A 1/1 that I'll never let go.
I've had an Arcs print for years and I totally missed Marius dropping these on objkt.
So I went back and made some decent offers and got a pair. They match beautifully. Very happy.
Love it when Marius manipulates 3d geometry with his palettes.
This piece is very reasonably priced and worthy of collecting.
Marius back on his exquisite bullshit.
Editioned work in Cosmic Communications Series.
Six colorforms - one for a city. Simple. Beautiful.
This is an interactive piece and must be played to be appreciated.
A map that wants to be explored. Feral File, Casey Reas, strange little worlds.
I had lusted after a maps for months and months. Very few were coming up for sale but after waiting I finally snagged one I really liked.
Feel like this is a bit of a cult favourite.
A fully responsive and reactive orbiting body. It's honestly cool as heck. I can't get my head around this.
One garden. Many viewers. Peak Leegte internet architecture.
I don't know anything about this artist. A fun little mint.
Just fantastic. It's like a 2022 version of zork.
Nicolas is the master of dithered moiré. More please.
Mountain Tour was originally created in 2010. One of (if not) the first example of "pixel sorting".
This is the 2022 edition.
Absolutely iconic and I can't quite believe I have a full set.
Really cool neural landscapes.
I completely missed "Alp when it came out. So it was a joy to see Leander tweet about it and I went back (artists please talk about your old work).
"Alp" looks like an old Amiga game "Midwinter".
These low-poly generative 3D landscapes hitting nostalgia and a remembrance of somewhere I've never been.
Thomas has been releasing great work across fx(hash).
This was released as part of #fxhashturnsone. A great piece.
I love this release. It took me ages to get one as most were quite expensive and the square isometric ones hard to find.
But I got there in the end with a great one.
I was a big fan of Collapsed Sequence on Art Blocks so I was really happy to see toiminto come back to fx(hash) after a long hiatus.
I love pieces where pixels just go through an absolute shredder. This is just so very cool.
It's Dr. Bill. Again releasing fantastic pieces.
I just have to collect.
It's just so amazing to see an artist grow and progress through their releases. Coronado is a classic example.
Sometimes you don't need art to be explained - just vibe. This has it.
The only release by compute on fx(hash). Really pleasing abstract forms.
A pseudonym for andyduboc.
Jonas is an established artist so it's fantastic to see someone of their talent releasing on fx(hash).
CHIP - looks like the inside of a computer chip to me. It's a simple concept, well executed. Great.
Distrukt by Landlines Art
This is released on objkt as a ticket you "burn". Once burned, you receive a new token which is rendered image through Blender.
I had never seen anyone use a burn mechanic as a way to create new tokens through a rendering process. We need more experimentation in this area.
I don't know much about "Ricky" except they make beautiful art.
Absolutely brilliant animated pieces here. The motion is just so incredibly smooth it's really staggering this is code.
This was part of #fxhashturnsone, originally a free release for Repeater holders but the AL wasn't correct.
So it snuck out and was minted out in minutes. I managed to grab a luminous yellow one and worked a trade for another.
Really happy with this set.
Simple vibes. This is all you need sometimes.
These pieces are animated and HAVE to be played to be understood. You are rewarded with waves of typography animating in repeating patterns.
One day displays will catch up with us so we can truly appreciate these.
The follow-up to Cosmic Type. Another great release.
Mark further explored visual language systems. These are super graphic and it took me ages to find one on secondary. Very happy with this one.
horizon(te)s by Iskra Velitchkova & zach lieberman
This was a huuuuuge release in 2022. Iskra and Zach making an amazing collaboration. What I particularly love about this release was that each artist tried their take on the horizon concept but also with a mimicry of each other.
It was a super fresh take on a collaboration. It's like 6(?) collections in one.
I keep coming back to appreciate it more.
Repeater
More repeaters in the Y2k palette
Dr. Bill releasing the first in series of works where he paid homage to Ken Knowlton.
I'm a sucker for grids and gradients. Great little release.
"Reflective polygons threaded between waves of canvas." A simple concept with some really stunning outputs.
I didn't mint this at the time and it took me some time to appreciate what makes a great frag. I think I found a good one.
Released as part of the 1 year anniversary of Achromat and #fxhashturnsone.
This was 8000 editions or so. Shows how versatile the work is. A great cheap one.
I don't know anything about patakk. They are getting more accomplished with every release.
One to watch.
Genius.
More genius.
This is just brilliant. John uses the checkbox as a pixel to create looping sinusoidal animations.
John with the gags.
A self-running dungeon system from John. It just keeps crawling forward.
I missed the mint for this amazing piece by andreas gysin and it took me over a year to get this one.
Iconic. Brilliant.
This is an animated piece and must be played to be appreciated.
Loren is very funny.
I had totally missed this one. 266+ unique hue-rotating flags. But I found the iraqi flag. Did a little deal with the owner and now I'm very happy.