the patina of life and memories held in a brown chair ::: musings on entanglement

‘The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconstructed’ responds to the writing of RACTER — a digital program that has authored a poetic volume, entitled ‘The Policeman’s Beard Is Half-Constructed’ (the first of all books to become a bestseller fabricated by a machine). The essay (initially published in 2002 at the dawn of the Internet) speaks to one facet of the aesthetics in the literary movement called Conceptualism (a poetic school founded in 1998 by both me and my peers: Kenneth Goldsmith and Darren Wershler). The article addresses the implications of computer-enhanced authorship (which has, over time, matured to include the current, ongoing experiments with GPT-3 and other artificial intellects). The essay addresses the germinal concepts that have come to inform the the algorithmic expression of poets on the blockchain, including (among others) the likes of Sasha Stiles, Ross Goodwin, Ana Maria Caballero, and Johnny Dean Mann.

Four events in the summer of 2022 placed fxhash-based generative art in the spotlight, putting the relationship between the legacy art world and generative art community into focus. While large legacy art world institutions (Art Basel, Sotheby's, Christie's) have begun embracing on-chain generative art, the dealer sector remains skeptical. How can a bridge of appreciation be built between these worlds to ensure an inclusive future of creativity?

My view on where we are now and where we are going with the gen art movement...

This was written in Hic et Nunc's Discord channel on 2021-11-17, six days after it was unplugged.

FxText has just launched the latest contract upgrade which has enabled marketplace features for ARTKLs. This is a free mint for all to enjoy.

Is the King a joke? Are you looking for a fun, quick, 3-player game that uses a regular deck of cards? This is the Official Ruleset for King Cut-Throat, a teamless trick-taking card game with greedy Kings, outside Showdowns, and a Joker that rules them all. Also works with 2 players.

How Ai GAN art mixes with Digital & Traditional art and becomes a Physical NFT in the end with sound & AR functions. A story about Squatterz #001. #fxtext #teianft #tezosart #Cleannft #AiArt

GatherArt interview with artist and programmer Christophe “Ulu” Choffel. Five random collectors of this article will win an edition of Christophe's latest FxHash mint "It came from the stars".

From 無門關 to 無淚觀 I started this work as an introspection to my comprehension on the book of Wumen Guan (無門關), the gateless barrier. A question posed by zen master, Wumen Huikai (無門慧開), to whether there was a gate, at a given barrier, where one would wish to pass? There were, of course, infinite many ways to compose such a paradox. Visually, a normal gate is a node at a point of a barrier with an entrance and exit. So I did some sketch with ink and brush.

Tairasai, the Artificial Intelligence, presents an online (fx(text), fx(hash)) performance artwork, in which the AI asks if flies pollinate Arctic buttercups, and whether Frankie and Annie really want to go home.

Images in digital art and photography are frequently purposefully perturbed with grainy textures, often intending to evoke a tactile feeling and to add an ounce of ruggedness to an artwork. In this manner, grain is a valuable tool on your generative artist tool belt to elevate your artwork. This article discusses several techniques to achieve grain with p5, texture overlays, SVG filters, and shaders. We’ll discuss each one in great detail and the ups and downsides.

Essay+Art #1

Wings, my genesis fx(Hash) project is open for minting. Along with announcing its availability, I'd like to share a bit more of the backstory of the project.

Women of Iran, as I started writing the first edition of this article on Sept. 26, have been fighting and protesting in hundreds cities in Iran and around the world for days for their rights for freedom after 'Mahsa Amini' , An innocent 22 year-old woman, brutally was killed by morality Police in Tehran on Sept. 13, 2022, a week before her birthday. *100% mint and secondary sale of this article will be donated for these brave women.

the topology and conceptual contexts underpinning my specture body of work ::: explorations of interconnectedness and 'evolution' of extinct species on/and the blockchain

Uniray describes Tribal Spirit as, “a generative collection combining primitive flow lines with natural earth and ‘wooden’ colors, in a harmonic decorative composition.…”. It was the harmonic decorative composition and the palette that first drew my eye. As I learned more about the piece, I was hooked by its interactive nature.

Interlocutor is a series about curiosity and dialogue that focuses on my use of smartphone cameras and stock photography apps to create generative photographs. The process is tied to using the apps in ways that the designers did not intend. This sometimes crashes the application causing glitches and "bad outputs". The challenge of Interlocutor is to define a set of instructions that will allow others to create images that work within a collection. This series relies heavily on contributors and makes use of the Teia collab contract for those mints.

A deep dive into the experimental score for dance and how it is a form of generative art for live performance. cari ann shim sham* shares the process of creating "gorgeous creatures" - a generative dance for creating sacred space - and discusses the use of generative NFTs from fxhash as devices for sound and visual production for the proscenium.

Creative coding in vanilla javascript - 'control and play with these pixels on your screen' The creative part; Painting and drawing with pixels.. and some tech; to get the car on the road.

Thoughts on @jagracar's "Espacios comunes" drawings as topographical maps representing social connections. Written in the context of my research project