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wavʌves

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“Waves and Lines, Interlocking, Interweaving, Ever Flowing, Fixed in Time” The wavʌves collection (pronounced waves), a mid-century modern inspired generative art set of 144 pieces, was created for the “N=12” exhibition on Feral File. It leverages a playful use of color to convey a sense of interaction. Distinct blocks combine with groups of fluid lines, suggesting the parallel creative processes and intersecting practices at the heart of the N=12. I’ve left it intentionally abstract and left it to the viewer for interpretation.

Fleeting Thoughts

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“Fleeting Thoughts” is a small 100-edition generative art collection that I created for the “Flatlands” exhibition of Alba.art. Each piece in the collection represents a visualization of our inner thoughts. Thoughts come together to form coherent ideas, thoughts diverge into different paths creating chaos, thoughts conflict into opposing sides. Our minds are ever in flux.

Imagine

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“Imagine” is a generative art collection of 222 pieces, created for Axiom Space to celebrate the launch of the Ax-2 mission. It showcases fictional star maps that transport viewers to worlds yet to be discovered. In the far future, as humans venture ever farther out into space, we will encounter new worlds and new skies. This collection offers a glimpse of what those skies might look like — each star map a vision of the universe as we have yet to see it. Each piece invites the viewer to engage their imagination and find objects, animals, and mythical heroes within the shapes and patterns of the unique constellations drawn between the stars.

The Essence of Us

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

“The Essence of Us” is a subtly moving data art piece that asks the question “What defines Human Culture?” through the lens of the 5000+ exoplanets that have been discovered since the first in 1992. Data about the exoplanets is mapped to every visual aspect that you see. Earth, Us, is symbolically placed us in the center, and every spiral around it is one exoplanet. My intent was to create a slowly moving piece that you can stare into and wonder about that initial question, what defines human culture as a whole? This piece is still available for sale

Coiling Curves

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Coiling Curves” is a small collection of three artworks sold digitally and two turned into high quality wooden jigsaw puzzles. These pieces came from a tangent of one of my many spirograph base explorations. These take the spirograph paths and turn them into chunky, vibrant loops that weave into each other.

As yet another exploration of spirographs, I looked into making some “chunky” spirographs (using a vibrant color palette). The chunky-ness of the results didn’t turn each output from the algorithm into a visually beautiful result. However, when “all the stars aligned” it had some amazing results! I therefore knew I wanted to turn this into a tiny set of less than 10 pieces that I would manually pick (from hundreds of outputs). Finally, three Coiling Curves were sold as some of my first NFTs on Foundation in the summer of 2021. You can see them here: #1, #2 & #3.

Twistings / Curated

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A generative art collection of seven pieces that I meticulously hand-picked from over 1000 outputs of the “Twistings” algorithm, which explores the beauty & variety that is hidden within the simple math of Archimedean spirals. Each piece in the collection is created from the same underlying spiral-based algorithm. All seven works use slightly different mathematical settings of the spiral formulas, fine-tuned to reveal the circular entity it represents: Drops, Circles, Fireworks, Flowers, Roses, Spirals & Twisters.

Twistings / Explore

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Twistings” is a generative art collection of 256 pieces that was released on fxhash. It explores the beauty & variety that is hidden within the simple math of Archimedean spirals. Each piece in the collection is created from the same underlying spiral-based algorithm. There are seven different circular “entities”, each brought forward by using slightly different mathematical settings of the spiral formulas: Drops, Circles, Fireworks, Flowers, Roses, Spirals & Twisters.

Obscured

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Obscured” is a collection I created for the Unpredictable Lines exhibition held by C-VERSO / Cortesi Gallery between 7 July - 5 August, 2022 in Milan. Although you see dozens or even hundreds of triangles, some fully colored, others hatched, no actual lines or corners are drawn. Instead, everything on the canvas is drawn from millions of perfect circles.

exhibition

Unpredictable Lines

The “Obscured” collection was released during the “Unpredictable Lines” exhibition held by Cortesi Gallery / C-VERSO in Milan, held from July 7th until August 5th, 2022 as part of a group show with three other generative artists.

No actual lines, no masking, no hard edges, instead everything on the canvas is drawn from millions of perfect circles. I wanted to explore how I could create overlapping shapes, lines, and possibly a Moiré effect (although I moved away from the latter early on in the creation process) by using just tiny dots. After some initial tests I was immediately drawn to the gritted texture I could create on the screen. As if I had screen printed, or riso printed the triangles on the canvas.

Dreams of Hubble

Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Dreams of Hubble” is a small collection of triptychs, all based on some of the most famous and colorful photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Various layers of triangles elude to the original photo that this piece was created with. It takes the details of the photo to an abstract level bringing it back to its most basic shape and colors. Each part of the triptych shows a different level of this abstraction, from highly abstract to being able to recognize the nebula or galaxy (if one is familiar with the original photo).

Amorphous Symmetry

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Amorphous Symmetry” is a collection of 10 unique pieces, all stemming from the same underlying generative algorithm. They once came into existence by the motion of multiple circles rotating around each other, before getting caught in an endless drowsy dance of symmetry flowing along their silky curves. These pieces were be exhibited at the International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair in Milan on LED Walls at the Piazza Gae Aulenti square during 1-3 April 2022 through Art Innovation Gallery.

Anhedra

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Anhedra” is a generative art collection that I created for GEN.ART. For this collection I was inspired by the process through which minerals (and rocks) are created, especially when growth occurs in a competitive environment and different minerals collide and form fascinating arrangements together. However, instead of having different atomic elements to grow, Anhedra uses a wide variety of color palettes, and sometimes goes beyond how processes would happen within nature, combining both the digital and organic.

Anhedra

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Patchwork Kingdoms

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

“Patchwork Kingdoms” is a data & generative art charity collection that I created for the Giga Connect project of UNICEF. All proceeds from the sale went to this project, which aims to connect all of the schools in the world to the internet. The Giga project has a dataset of 1 million schools and for ±280,000 of those they know if those schools are connected to the internet. I took this data about the schools, split it into 1000 subsets, and turned each school into a tiny square. All the squares together build up into two separate kingdoms, where those in the upright kingdoms are schools that are already connected to the internet, while those in the hidden / upside down kingdoms are not. Each of the 1000 pieces is thereby showing the “digital divide” that still exists in our world, and the funds from this sale will help to bring more schools from the hidden to the upright kingdom.

Patchwork Kingdoms

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“Patchwork Kingdoms” is a data + generative art project, a charity NFT collection, that I created for UNICEF’s Giga project. Giga aims to connect all schools in the world to the internet. They have a large database with information about schools, specifically if the school is connected to the internet or not. I used this data, on 283,000 schools, to create an algorithm that spread the schools out over 1000 tiny kingdoms, turning each school into a little square, while using both randomness and other aspects of the data to guide the visual appearance.

Rotae

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“Rotae” is a generative art collection that I created for Art Blocks. It is based on, and is an ode to, the vast array of beautiful shapes that can appear from the seemingly simple process of letting circles rotate on (many more) circles. Like all Art Blocks projects, this project has the generative algorithm that I created (±11kb) be forever inscribed into the Ethereum blockchain. When minting a piece, there is no way to know how the result will look. Only by making the transaction itself is the “hash” created that is used as input into my algorithm, thereby creating the image.

Rotae

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“Rotae” is a generative art collection that I created for Art Blocks. It is based on, and is an ode to, the vast array of beautiful shapes that can appear from the seemingly simple process of letting circles rotate on (many more) circles. The name of the project, Rotae, means “wheels” in Latin, and is a nod to the paper that describes the math behind finding a certain m-fold symmetry, regardless of the number of circles that are chained together.

Wanderlust

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“Wanderlust” is a data art + generative art collection, a BlockStyle, that I created for EthBlock.Art. My algorithm takes the transactional data from each Ethereum block in the blockchain and converts it into a unique, but deterministic, image, visualizing several aspects of each transaction. People are able to decide for themselves which block they wish to mint, thereby creating a collaboration between myself as the artist and the minters to define which the final blocks / images will be the final collection.

Wanderlust

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

“Wanderlust” is a data art + generative art project, a BlockStyle, that I created for EthBlock.Art. My algorithm takes the transactional data from each Ethereum block in the blockchain and converts it into a unique, but deterministic, image, visualizing several aspects of each transaction.

Elemental Flows

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is a “Generative meets Data art” collection of 4 + 1, revealing data about some of the most important elements that we humans (now) need to live; Earth, Water, Air, Sun + Digital. They all stem from the same underlying algorithm. However, each piece is differently fine-tuned to form a representation of their element.

For this collection I combined elements of generative art and data art. Each piece uses the same underlying flow algorithm, but I’ve fine-tuned each to look like the element I’m trying to convey.

Wanderings of Stars

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The three pieces in this generative & data art collection reveal how the stars in our night sky are moving through the “lens” of how our current constellations are pulled apart as time is either moved 400,000 years into the past, the future, or both. These pieces place you as an outside viewer, looking at the night sky as a sphere with the stars and constellations drawn along the outside, and our Earth a theoretical speck in the center.