Elevate Heart is the creative vision of Daniel Calderon Arenas. This project came together with support from SquiggleDAO and his brother Erick Calderon. The project embodies a positive message, championing the essence of having heart and uplifting others.

Elevate Heart by Daniel Calderon Arenas

Elevate Heart #951

# gm. studio presents '**A Daydream for Libby**' by genlight, a generative fairy tale book made with love and code. 

This release is the second collection to be featured in the 'Select' category. It consists of 548 pieces & launched on September 11th 2023. 

**Controls**

Click on the canvas and then select one of the following options;

- `D` *Enter Warp Mode (use the arrows to resize the canvas)*
- `G` *Remove colour*
- `F` *Remove texture*
- `H` *Remove story*
- `A` or `B` *Download high resolution image*

A Daydream For Libby by genlight

A generative fairy tale book made with love and code.

A Daydream for Libby #268

What is the relationship between color, sound, and movement? Artist Jaime Derringer continues to explore this question in her collection Chromesthesia: Ascend. In this body of work, Derringer investigates the phenomenon of experiencing colors in response to certain sounds or other stimuli.<br><br>Derringer begins with her personal archive of works, both those created on paper and digital paintings. Over the years, Derringer has repeatedly digitally manipulated and distorted these original images using a combination of computer software and AI. Each successive collection or group of works cannibalizes what came before it and is reborn in the wreckage.<br><br>For Chromesthesia: Ascend, she relinquished that control to a complex algorithm that mirrors the rhythm of her hands guiding the MIDI controller, destroying the works over and over again to form a type of abstract brutalist composition. 

Chromesthesia: Ascend

What is the relationship between color, sound, and movement? Artist Jaime Derringer continues to explore this question in her collection Chromesthesia: Ascend. In this body of work, Derringer investigates the phenomenon of experiencing colors in response to certain sounds or other stimuli. She employs vibrant and contrasting hues to create a sense of movement, energy, and emotion.\n\nDerringer begins with her personal archive of works, both those created on paper and digital paintings. Over the years, Derringer has repeatedly digitally manipulated and distorted these original images using a combination of phone applications, computer software, and AI. Each successive collection or group of works cannibalizes what came before it and is reborn in the wreckage. The final piece is further deconstructed and ultimately reconstructed with a MIDI controller, a device typically used to control or play music, as Derringer turns each knob of the device to distort a section or characteristic of the image. Through this iterative process, she creates a sense of depth and movement within her pieces, as well as a sense of history and evolution.\n\nFor Chromesthesia: Ascend, she relinquished that control to a complex algorithm that mirrors the rhythm of her hands guiding the MIDI controller, destroying the works over and over again to form a type of abstract brutalist composition.\n\nEach time the algorithm is run, a new composition is born. The algorithm keeps time and acts like a beat, periodically altering parameters and taking rhythmic snapshots as the composition unfolds. Each piece is composed of a mix of visual parameters of varying rarity which all have a relationship to music and which Derringer names timbre, duration, frequency, and rhythm.

Chromesthesia: Ascend #025

Chromesthesia: Ascend #196

Generative, on-chain works by artist[Rafal Rozendaal](https://www.newrafael.com) 

This collection will expand over time. Projects will be added regularly. Projects are fixed in size, the collection as a whole will grow. You can filter by year or project. There will be no features within projects. The code of the works is stored on-chain. Short form generative art. Built with artblocks engine. Code by Reinier Feijen. All javascript, no external libraries.

newrafael.work

Warp (2023) by Rafal Rozendaal  The work is responsive, it adjusts to any screen size  Code by Reinier Feijen  The code of this work is stored on the Ethereum blockchain  License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Warp #23

Audio-Sensitive Generative Art NFTs, 100% on the Ethereum Blockchain.

A generative on-chain audiovisual collection of 469 artworks comprised of 9 different traits and using ambient sounds from your own microphone as input (whether from footsteps in a hallway, music at an event, or a conversation amongst friends), Sensthesia is a dynamic visual artwork. It further bridges the gap between physical and digital spaces. In influencing the artwork, the artwork can re-influence the viewer, creating a feedback loop and blurring the line between art, artist, and viewer. Engage with the artwork often  no two experiences are the same. The work is intended to bring interactivity to any environment in which it lives.

PS: go to https://sensthesia.com/ to experiment with our project, Opensea will only display a static image for now.

Sensthesia

SENSTHESIA

Audio-Sensitive Generative Art NFTs, 100% on the Ethereum Blockchain.

A generative on-chain audiovisual collection of 469 artworks comprised of 9 different traits and using ambient sounds from your own microphone as input (whether from footsteps in a hallway, music at an event, or a conversation amongst friends), Sensthesia is a dynamic visual artwork. It further bridges the gap between physical and digital spaces. In influencing the artwork, the artwork can re-influence the viewer, creating a feedback loop and blurring the line between art, artist, and viewer. Engage with the artwork often  no two experiences are the same. The work is intended to bring interactivity to any environment in which it lives.

PS: go to https://sensthesia.com/ to experiment with our project, Opensea will only display a static image for now.

Sensthesia #301

Sensthesia #423

gm. studio presents 'Quadrature' by Darien Brito, a generative series embracing indeterminacy, Quadrature captures the essence of transcendent moments, suggesting motion over stillness and encouraging serendipity within a deterministic environment.

This collection is the eighth to be featured in the 'Blind' category. It consists of 300 pieces & launched on May 20th 2023.

Quadrature by Darien Brito

Quadrature #136

#RrGgBb

#RrGgBb #21

Seating Arrangements by Luke Shannon

Woodblock printing uses a single wooden carving (aka the matrix) to produce multiple prints that each have their own subtle variation in texture and registrationin this way, the matrix is the true source of new work.

In Lukes algorithmic process, a single body of code produces many unique matrices which represent related but distinct perspectives on a single idea. A systems based approach to creation leaves space for things to emerge that the artist had not conceived. In its best form, it also enables the creation of artwork with complete unity of concept, system, and manifestation as they become one and the same.

In Seating Arrangements, Shannon highlights both the matrix and its product, the print. The algorithm generates a digital file that serves as the blueprint. These unique instructions are then executed by a CNC machine to carve out the distinct sections of the chair. The carved wooden slab is inked, simulta- neously creating the print and painting the final chair. Finally these pieces are assembled to create a free standing chair entirely from the matrixwithout any hardware. The print becomes a record of an inter- mediate event and the matrix is shared as the final assembled sculptural piece of furniture.

In this series, the generative algorithm does more than ornament the final structure: it is central to the very essence of the chair. The artist defined 220 short, straight segments of wood that can be included or excluded by the algorithm and can intersect with up to 13 other segments. The repeating geometry of the design allows the viewer to see the positive form of the chair in the included segments and the nega- tive form of the chair in the absence of those that are not.

The range of possibilities for this algorithm is 2^220, or 1,684,996,666,696,914,987,166,688,442,938- 726,917,102,321,526,408,785,780,068,975,640,576 unique chairs. The incomprehensible multitude of potential chairs elevates one of Shannons core questions in the work: what is a chair? Many of the potential outcomes are not sittable, but does that exclude it from being a chair if it still registers as one visually?

If you were to overlap all of the chairs, there would be no single element that is shared by all. The viewer is denied an understanding of the platonic form of a chair, as there is no one common feature that can be distilled as the essence of chair within this series.

The removed segments insert a new dimension to the relationship between body, consciousness, and object. So much of what we come into contact with on a daily basis is designed to recede in our minds consider pain free UI/UX or an office chair. We constantly interact with engineered systems that do not assert themselves. Their recession can mean forgetting that they exist at all, and forgetting that they are designed for their own purposes outside of our wants and needs.

The unique generative structures and simple materiality of Seating Arrangements mean these chairs do not disappear, but rather insert themselves into your consciousness. You must think of how to sit down, perhaps where to put your arm. This awareness of your body and your relationship to the piece reminds you that it has its own identity.

Seating Arrangements #115

Seating Arrangements #114

Photon's Dream by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco

A photon is a particle representing a quantum of light. Because it travels at the speed-of-light, time and space as we understand it do not exist for this elementary particle. The Big Bang was less than an instant ago for the photon and yet it has already traversed the cosmos. Time and space to it is what? It"s hard to say. The word non-dual comes to mind.

Some components in Photons Dream look like images from an electron microscope. Other parts have a more cosmic or planetary vista. Juxtaposing both creates tension and intrigue where the boundary between fine texture and grand architecture becomes blurred.

The expression One in all: all in one is somehow embodied in the wavefield primitives used to make this art. Art that aspires to create both holistic simplicity and the mystery of deep complexity. The quasicrystal and hyperbolic geometry employed here are subjects to the artist that express what is beyond macro and micro, internal and external and ultimately self and other.

Photon"s Dream #231

At the opaque surface of the churning ocean of bits is the exchange between both the realm of the computer and that of ourselves. The interface. And in the centre of this human machine culture lives the button.

Buttons is a generative series of HTML pages with styled buttons.

Buttons by Jan Robert Leegte

The button has been in a continuous state of shapeshifting over the expanding history of collective interface design. Endless webpages filled with designs, haptics, styles, expressions, subcultures, interactions, effects, all layered over this simple and elemental entity leaving in its wake a fundamental material presence within interface culture.

The internet is an unimaginably vast ecology of data and processes. Deeply stored data is immutable like buried granite, where other is constantly in flux like a rushing mountain stream. The whole system is in continuous evolution through endless processes reshaping the data interacting with each other and with ourselves. At the opaque surface of this churning ocean of bits is the exchange between both the realm of the computer and that of ourselves. The interface. And in the centre of this human machine culture lives the button. A binary entity reaching out from the very core of the machine's logic to touch, at the surface, our reaching finger, after which it dives back down in order to toggle some state from a zero to a one.

Buttons #92

Art Blocks x Pace

DRIFT artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nautaknown for their explorations of natural phenomena through technologically minded artworksand artist Jeff Davis, known for his explorations of color and form through algorithmic systems, have joined forces to produce a new generative art project titled Schema. Taking DRIFTs widely exhibited Meadow installation as a point of departure, Schema comprises 300 unique, generative, and animated artworks uniting DRIFT and Daviss artistic visions. 

This collaborative new project is inspired by the beauty and simplicity of DRIFTs two-dimensional schematic designs for Meadow, an upside-down landscape in which illuminated mechanical flowers open and close as part of a poetic choreography. Hung from a ceiling, this mesmeric work examines the impermanence of the changing seasons and the phenomenology of nature.

At its core, Schema is a love letter to the preliminary work that goes into realizing any large-scale art installationin this case, diagram-making. Together, Gordijn, Nauta, and Davis developed a custom algorithm that brings the physical sculptures details and idiosyncrasies to life, recasting its diagrammatic origins in four possible styles: Diagram, the style that most closely resembles DRIFTs preliminary diagrams for Meadow; Color Study, which strips out the structural elements of the diagrams and express the flowers as abstract rings of color; Sketch, which renders the flowers as line drawings with chalk-like accents; and Blueprint, which resembles the style of a blueprint.

In addition to these four different drawing styles, the projects algorithmic system chooses two parent colors for each artwork, which may result in a wide spectrum of colors appearing across the composition from left to right or, alternatively, a more monochromatic scheme. The flowers themselves also have their own color systems that determine the relationship between their physical color and the color of their internal lights, creating gradient effects as the cast light blends with the local color. 

Variable traits in any given Schema artwork also include: the total number and location of the flowers; day and night modes that impact ambient light effects; each flowers apparent position relative to the viewer; and the frequency and speed at which each flower opens and closes. Flowers in these artworks also run on their own cycles, deliberately avoiding synchronization and giving the whole scene a sense of organic motion. Once the viewer clicks on a static Schema composition to activate its motion, the animations in the artwork evolve endlessly.

Schema #217

(81-82-83-84) by Daniel Catt

This collection is my own take on Flow-Fields, having not used them before but always admired them. I wanted to taken them in the direction of glitch combined with the lines I'm used to using on the pen plotter.

(81-82-83-84) #34

Art Blocks

*Life and Love and Nothing is released as part of reGEN, a special charitable auction of generative art to raise funds for Cure Alzheimers Fund, curated by Alex Estorick and Foteini Valeonti in collaboration with The Giving Block.*

This is an illustration of a wildfire burning through a cabin and the surrounding hillside, rendered stylistically with pen and paper in mind. 

Once a year, the fire will ignite and burn until the cabin and the hillside are consumed. After burning, the cabin and the hillside will regenerate, and the cycle will start again.

The cabin represents a person, and the surrounding hillside their mind and memories.

The fire represents disease, burning through the persons memories from the most recent and least established, through to the oldest and most ingrained.

My hope is that this can illustrate both the pain caused by disease and the beauty of the time we have to hold onto memories and loved ones.

Life is short, bodies degrade, houses burn. But, before that, there is life; there is love; there is creation  these things are beautiful.

Consider where you are placing your efforts.
Pursue what is important.
Take the time to see someone you love.
Take the time to do something you love.

Theres only so much time.

Life and Love and Nothing #187

Schema #31

##### **Forecast** abstractly captures the essence of rainfall on a stone-paved road, drawing an analogy between weather and human emotions, comparing the outcome of a weather forecast to the range of feelings a rainy day can evoke, inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationship with rain and the emotions it evokes in them. #####
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The code creatively **recreates a weather forecast** to determine where on the canvas rain will fall. It emulates barometric pressure and humidity to alter a circle packing **algorithm that acts like clouds over the canvas**, generating the necessary data to calculate the probability of precipitation for each piece and distribute rain on the canvas in a visually appealing way.

**Geometry, color, and natural forces work together to create an abstract representation of rain** that pays homage to where I was born, Galicia, where rain is art.
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In the northwest of Spain lies Galicia, a region where rain holds a special place.

**With approximately half of the year consisting of rainy days**, it"s no surprise that the Galician language has evolved to encompass a rich vocabulary of over 100 words to describe its various forms and moments. **Rain has become an art form in our everyday lives**, expressed through our language and the nuances of our conversations.

It was within this setting of rich traditions and linguistic nuances that **inspiration took hold on a rainy Sunday afternoon, as I wandered through the old part of town, captivated by the movement of raindrops and mesmerizing water ripples on the stone-paved road**, nurtured by the deep connection between Galicia"s cultural heritage of intricate vocabulary of rain.

This intriguing interplay between weather and language extends far beyond Galicia, languages like Japanese, Welsh, and even Hawaiian bear witness to this captivating phenomenon, where **weather molds the very fabric of our linguistic expressions.** It serves as a testament to the **profound influence of weather on our collective human experience.**

While rain and weather influencing language ignited my inspiration, I sought to explore further, embarking on a creative journey that **explores the profound impact rain has on emotions and feelings**a shared human language that transcends borders and requires no translations.

To express the diverse range of emotions rain can evoke, I created color palettes inspired by personal memories and experiences, capturing the essence of how those moments, events, and places made me feel. To further enhance the expression of emotions, I use size and proportion symbolizing and amplifying the intensity of those feelings. This approach brings forth the emotional impact of rain in our lives, **inviting viewers to reflect on their own relationship with rain and the feelings it evokes in them.**

To add depth and significance to its compositions Forecast uses a creative approach woven into its code, that became such an important part of the piece that gave its name to the project. **The code simulates a weather forecast emulating barometric pressure, and humidity**  variables that dynamically influence a circle packing algorithm that symbolizes clouds over the canvas, generating the necessary data to calculate the probability of precipitation for each piece and distribute rain across the canvas in a visually appealing way. The result is a perfect balance between randomness and control that added an extra layer of depth to the artwork.

**Prints**
Prints will be available for Forecast owners. For more details, [visit this link](https://www.mlarino.com/work/forecast "order prints").

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