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ARTISTS ON THEIR ART

TENDER EDITORIALS

Learning Processing, Second Edition, is a friendly start-up guide to Processing, a free, open-source alternative to expensive software and daunting programming languages. Requiring no previous experience, this book is for the true programming beginner.

Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

Generative Art presents both the technique and the beauty of algorithmic art. The book includes high-quality examples of generative art, along with the specific programmatic steps author and artist Matt Pearson followed to create each unique piece using the Processing programming language.

Generative Art - A Practical Guide Using Processing

«There is this hacker slogan: “We love your computer.” We also get inside people's computers. And we are honored to be in somebody's computer. You are very close to a person when you are on his desktop.» Jodi, 1997

In Your Computer

I wrote a short article about my technique to measure pen line width for plotters

Measure the line width of your pen with a plotter

Toccata - A generative audiovisual composition by Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez and Andreas Rau captures a feeling of hope amid apocalyptic anxiety.

Variations On The Future

This post is a broad overview of the recently emerging “crypto art” space, including the use of “Non-Fungible Tokens” (NFTs) as a digital art distribution mechanism.

On Crypto Art and NFTs

From Ethereum to Tezos, Nate Maddrey explains what makes smart contracts so important to the world of NFTs

How do Smart Contracts Actually Work?

Over the last 50 years, our world has turned digital at breakneck speed. No art form has captured this transitional time period - our time period - better than generative art.

Why Love Generative Art

In this first non-technical introduction to emerging AI techniques, artist Casey Reas explores what it’s like to make pictures with generative adversarial networks (GANs), specifically deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs). This text is imagined as a primer for readers interested in creative applications of AI technologies.

Making Pictures With Generative Adversarial Networks

EDITORIALS

The NFT Collector - Ida Belle

An Interview with Florian Zumbrunn

Collecting Digital: Derek Schloss on Snowfro

In Conversation with Per Kristian Stoveland

FEMGEN Interview Series: A conversation with Sasha Stiles

In this episode I'm joined in studio by Raphael de Courville AKA sableRaph and together we call one of the founders of Processing, Casey Reas, to talk about the history of Processing.org and where they see that going. Like always, the conversation veered in many directions, but we did a relatively good job of staying on track throughout the hour. Personally, I learned a bunch and had a great time.

AD #034 - Casey Reas & Raphael de Courville

Eli, Derek, and Sam join forces this week to chat about the NFT market, Art Blocks volume, and the Three Arrows Capital liquidation. They also welcome special guest Seth Goldstein (Founder, Bright Moments) to share his story about creating Bright Moments, scaling it across the world, and the magic of the Bright Moments Tokyo event.

Proof - The Digital Art Market with Seth Goldstein

In this episode I talk to my partner in art, Evan Greene. Evan is a self proclaimed "Stay at home Dad with an Art degree" and makes art primarily with AI tools. He and I discuss his education, what he does in his artistic practice, the project he and I did together- SCULPT, and where he sees that going in the near future, among other things. It was a real pleasure having Evan on, hope you enjoy listening as much I did talking to him.

AD #033 - Evan Greene

This week the cat is out of the bag on WTBS. We are proud to bring a very special interview episode with Ozzie, renowned fx(hash) team member and confirmed Human Person. Join us and learn how Ozzie came to crypto, NFTs, and fx(hash). We also explore his passion for philanthropy, dig into some of his collabs, and talk about the challenges of the current market and what we can look forward to on fx(hash).

WTBS - with Ozzie

In this episode I talk to Danielle King for the second time. Among other things, Danielle is an artist using AI as a tool to bring her artistic vision to life. Danielle and I talk about her process, working with the Vertical Crypto Art residency, Expanded.art, her EmProps drop "The Muses", AI's interpretation of the female gaze, the exhibition she is curating for NFT Europe 2023 called "Embodied" and how she juggles all her various roles in life. As always, it was great to spend time talking to her.

AD #032 - Danielle King

Our first-ever interview with an artist who has not dropped on fx(hash)... yet.

WTBS - with Cory Haber

Interviews

Audio & Visual

Joe Kennedy (Unit London co-founder) discusses bucking the system, with Artnome (Jason Bailey).

Rebuilding The Art World

In the work of Tyler Hobbs, the relationship between humans and machines is filled with productive tensions.

Manual Override

The artist discusses the moment generative art went mainstream with Jason Bailey 

An Interview with Dmitri Cherniak

This post is a brief retrospective in which I look back onto the past two years of making code based blockchain art. I tackle some lessons that I've learned, some of the emotional struggles that I've experienced and conclude with some tips to grapple with this fast paced environment.

Making Generative Blockchain Art on FxHash: A brief Retrospective

As Bright Moments Tokyo spotlights a new generation of digital artists, KUMALEON hosts a group of rising suns

Generative Art and Japan's Bright Future

Computing and creativity have always been linked. In the early 1800’s when Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, his friend Ada Lovelace wrote in a letter that, if music could be expressed to the engine, then it “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

Early Computer Art in the 50's & 60's

The artist tells Alex Estorick how he turned painting into a digital system to generate art 

The Color of Code

Recent Words From Critical Voices

Art Blocks unites creators and collectors in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease

ReGen | GENERATIVE ARTISTS FIGHTING DEGENERATIVE DISEASES

To celebrate the opening of William Mapan's Verse Solos exhibition, 'Intimacy', Verse hosted a panel discussion with William Mapan, their very own Leyla Fakhr, and two brilliant institutional panelists, Melanie Lenz (V&A) and Tamar Clarke-Brown (Serpentine Galleries).

William Mapans 'Intimacy': A Verse Solos Panel

Virginia Valenzuela explores generative art's roots in South American concrete art.

Concrete to Generative: “Real Space” Explorations in South America

New in Generative Art...

ReGen | GENERATIVE ARTISTS FIGHTING DEGENERATIVE DISEASES

William Mapans 'Intimacy': A Verse Solos Panel

Concrete to Generative: “Real Space” Explorations in South America