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Generative Art has been gaining popularity alongside the rise of blockchain technology, and academic institutions are showing a growing interest in offering courses on the subject. This article documents the experience of teaching a semester-long course on Generative Art at National Chengchi University. The course covered various aspects of Generative Art, including blockchain-related knowledge, marketing strategies, aesthetic evolution, and coding. Students learned to create Generative Art pieces using p5js, starting from simple algorithms to more advanced topics. To encourage student discussion and reward good behavior, the course introduced a course token, MXC (MixMix Coin). The article provides detailed information about the course structure, student feedback, and showcases of the final projects, which were published on fxhash. Overall, this article is a valuable resource for anyone interested in teaching or learning about Generative Art and blockchain technology.

Ever since OpenSea gave up on artist royalties, there's been a lot of talk about what to do about this problem (platforms undercutting each other) on a bigger scale. After hearing and reading various perspectives, it seems that from a technical perspective, on-chain royalty enforcement is very difficult since there will always be ways for bad actors to bypass them. This problem is cultural as much as it is technical - if the majority of the players on a chain decide that royalty enforcement is a priority, it will probably happen. If not, it probably won't. But the idea of a free-for-all doesn't seem quite right, either - how can we solve this issue more systematically?