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Defining and implementing abstractions is more practice than elaboration. Interfaces built through formal languages are shaped by a shared praxis whose consensual lessons are established as standards. The use of such normalised means to create art pieces is hence an intuitive deviation: tools fashioned as means to an end are often used for purposes that appear to be the exact opposite of their raison d’être. Recent technosocial developments have enabled the tentative burgeoning of an economy nurturing these deviant applications. A new wave of the so-called “generative art” milieu is attempting to mobilise both factors of production, capital and labour, to augment the manufacturing of such algorithms. While the nature of each factor is apparently unremarkable, their intersection in this space does yield an idiomatic result. Humans and tools which are engaged in this practice, because they are incentivized to systematically share the outputs of their research, participate in the transformation of both factors and, as such, in their own. The generative art milieu is building an attempt to seize the means of generation.

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

In this article, I'll give a brief overview of creating my latest project, September: the inspiration behind it, the early development of the idea, and finalizing all the small details, while sharing lots of work-in-progress images along the way.

This article is a description of the creative process and mathematical techniques used to create the NFT 'Polymorph'. As a modern artist in digital media we are committed to sharing techniques and methods to help and inspire others. This is based on a firm belief in the limitless nature of human creativity and a desire to embrace and contribute to the current global explosion of personal and financially rewarding digital expression. If anyone uses or is inspired by any of the ideas here please do get in touch. We would love to see your work.

A brief (and incomplete) overview of the features and variations in 'Stepping Stones', part of the fxhash interactive minting experience at Performance in Code: Deciphering Value in Generative Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2022.