Volatile Moods

We released the seeds at midday, following our best computer predictions, hoping against all odds that they'd travel far, re-seeding the earth, sowing a future for us. It was months since the fall, since that terrible moment containment failed; quarantine failed; humanity itself failed. We called it ‘The Last Days’—unoriginal, perhaps, but descriptive all the same–and shook our heads in despair at our hubris, at the price we'd paid. This would make it all right. Our computer model, proving we still had hope, that we'd make it all go away. The seeds would float on the wind, drifting into the tortured air, and carry with them new life. And we would live again.

We know that generative art has a rich history, but what of generative music? It too shares a rich history, yet remains a passive subcomponent within generative arts, playing an auxiliary role, or even, occasionally, added to works as an afterthought. Yet I’ve found many examples -- on both Ethereum and Tezos -- where musical elements have become more of the primary focus. Join me as I rifle through some select choices, after offering a bit of history and context to it all.

This project is a playful attempt to depict how Neo-plasticism painters abstracted compositions, inspired and a tribute to the "De Stijl" movement, drawn using statically rendered block elements. The visual language reminds the original designs of famous artists of this art movement; in this project, each color palette is categorized by the name of a favorite piece of these artists. These palettes are sometimes determined by the color combination of this artist's works, which form the visual identity of their works from the color dimension.

A fat-fingered listing for 98% below floor price turns into a feel good story about the NFT art community on tezos, fxhash, and Tender.

Will and Trinity discuss the week that was in the world of fxhash. Big projects, the end of the anniversary, and a special segment dedicated to the ongoing conversation of women in the world of generative art. Follow along with the episode via the images and links below, and considering collecting this article to support the podcast.

The story about how "Voyage" came to life

The biggest month in fx(hash) history deserves its own two-parter to cover all of the amazing representational art that came out then, some of which you probably missed, because over 3600 other projects also dropped that month.

Gearing up for the Open Beta - Qubibi Teaser Drop - Verse's Full Tezos Integration - Recap of Glance at Galerie Data - Volatile Mood's My Space - Hevey's Constructiones Mentales - Salviado's Uprising - Samuel Javelle x Forgio's Generative 3D Reefs

Onchain Summer Comes to an End - Second Installment of Responsive Dreams - Joshua Davis’ Giza Pyramid Complex - ASCIIMATA16 - Gretchen Andrews Facetune Portraits x HOLON at the Berlin Art Week - Entangled: The Exhibition - The New Website