Cargo by Kim Asendorf

**Cargo** is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.

ASDF: My work should offer individual ways of interpretation, or even allow one to find some self in it. It wants to inspire some thoughts about dynamics and systemics and also just mesmerize the audience, capture them in a little fantasy, or just for a brief moment in a state of satisfaction.

Cargo is the latest work in Kim Asendorfs ongoing work series of pixel pattern animations. Starting with [monogrid](https://monogrid.xyz) in 2021, and [Sabotage](https://sabotage.kim) in 2022, both highly conceptual series, therefore visually very raw and unimaginable. Asendorf discovered various interesting details in these works, which eventually became fundamental in his artistic expression.

Cargo is a real time WebGL software written in JavaScript and GLSL. At its core is a flip-flop render buffer, also known as feedback buffer. That means the animation is alternately rendered in two different frame buffers. This technique allows the usage of the previous frame of the animation as an asset in the current rendering, which allows for a series of reactive animation strategies.

An initial image with variable structures and patterns is rendered and subsequently loaded into the frame buffer. A fragment shader is used to apply a set of animation algorithms that make the pixel move and a set of reset algorithms that constantly try to recreate the initial image. The final animation happens in selected containers and is always a combination of two algorithms, one from each set. By regularly animating and partially resetting the pixels, a wide range of movement patterns appear.

Cargo is a responsive and pixel exact artwork and it will fill the screen on any display size, thus changing the total amount of used pixels accordingly. This results in the fact that the detail level in the artwork is changing depending on the dimensions. The overall structure is consistently stretching the x and y axis independently. Single containers scale along the dimensions and offer more pixels to render the patterns at a larger representation compared to a smaller representation. This behavior leads to a brilliance, perfect pixels, a crisp rendering with nothing like compression artifacts.

This software includes the [simplex noise](https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js) JavaScript implementation by Jonas Wagner and the [cellular noise](https://github.com/stegu/webgl-noise) GLSL code by Stefan Gustavson.

Cargo #375

SZNS by JakNFT x Kotegawa

SZNS #492

Creating art on the internet since 1997, renowned artist Jan Robert Leegtes work has been featured in prestigious venues such as Centre Pompidou, The Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, van Gogh Museum, and the Ludwig Museum.
The artwork, Coin (2023), is a creative interpretation of an NFT that playfully conceals its identity, appearing as a button, clock, spinner, and even assuming the form of a valuable coin. It serves as an extension of Jan Robert Leegte's exploration into interface culture, encompassing themes like skeuomorphism and the phenomenology of software. Each coin is generated and stored on-chain as an SVG, and therefore unique in appearance and spin. Coin comes in four different materials increasing in rarity - "Bronze", "Silver", "Gold", "Hyper Link", and Void. 
Minters of Coin can also choose to mint on either Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Base, or Zora Network. 
Which chain will you choose?

Coin by Jan Robert Leegte

Coin #57

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 #971

Web is a monument to the hyperlink, a poem dedicated to machine learning and a computer's drive within itself.

The project is a fully on-chain generative cross-linked network of webpages released in partnership with Fingerprints DAO and is a coproduction with Superposition. Blockchain development by Jake Allen.

Web is a monument to the hyperlink, a poem dedicated to machine learning and a computer's drive within itself.
 
 The project is a fully on-chain generative cross-linked network of webpages released in partnership with Fingerprints DAO and is a coproduction with Superposition. Blockchain development by Jake Allen.

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Welcome to FewoWorld, a universe created by FEWOCiOUS and the Web3 community. FewoWorld is the first generative art project from the mind of FEWOCiOUS. Unlike anything he has created before.

FEWOCiOUS x FewoWorld: Fewos

Fewos are a 18,000 generative avatar collection. There are 3 Species of Fewos and every one has its own unique set of traits and characteristics that come embedded in their DNA. From squiggly eyes, to linework bones, and everything in between, these creatures were born from the mind of FEWOCiOUS, with every trait hand drawn and then converted into beautiful 3D art. View this FEWO's backpack at https://fewos.fewoworld.io/dressing-room/4879

FEWO #4879

Fewos are a 18,000 generative avatar collection. There are 3 Species of Fewos and every one has its own unique set of traits and characteristics that come embedded in their DNA. From squiggly eyes, to linework bones, and everything in between, these creatures were born from the mind of FEWOCiOUS, with every trait hand drawn and then converted into beautiful 3D art. View this FEWO's backpack at https://fewos.fewoworld.io/dressing-room/798

FEWO #798

In recent months, Norman Harman has embarked on an artistic odyssey, veering from the familiar motel to mine the morphic, glitch-ridden outskirts of SIGHTSEERS. The exclusive Perimeter Town set is his gift to collectors, born from these uncharted territories.

SIGHTSEERS, Harman's pioneering collection, crafts a narrative that intertwines humanity's present predicaments with the nascent stages of the cryptoart revolution. His tableau, echoing the oblivious onlookers of the 1950s nuclear bomb tests, houses figures suspended in blithe oblivion. Against this stark canvas, Harman paints a foreboding picture of the potential for catastrophe in AI's unchartered frontier.

A luminary in the cryptoart realm, Harman breathes new depth into AI art. He masterfully blends traditional painting and digital disruptions, crafting an unflinching critique of societal decadence, distraction, and conformity through his art. SIGHTSEERS, a 2022 triumph, graces the collections of renowned artists and collect

SIGHTSEERS - PERIMETER TOWN

Norman Harman has strayed further & further from the motel to pluck the outgrowths of the glitched & morphic wastelands of SIGHTSEERS and offer it to collectors as the exclusive Perimeter Town set. 

SIGHTSEERS, Norman Harman's first serial collection, created a world that goes to the roots of both the cryptoart movement and of humanity's current historical crossroads. Based on the sightseers who came to watch the nuclear bomb tests that took place in the desert outside of Las Vegas during the 1950s, the landscape is populated with blithely doomed figures. Against this backdrop, Harman invokes the cataclysmic potential of a new technological frontier: AI. 

Perimeter Town is the result of Harman's work in the months following SIGHTSEERS, a boutique set that reveals the refined emergences on the perimeter of the SIGHTSEERS world.

G Force Physco

By Harm van den Dorpel in collaboration with Fingerprints DAO & Mercedes-Benz NXT

Maschine

Maschine  a collection about velocity and perception, created by Harm van den Dorpel in collaboration with Fingerprints DAO & Mercedes-Benz NXT, 2023.   

https://maschine.fingerprintsdao.xyz/terms-and-conditions

Maschine 

Iskra Velitchkova entered 2023 with a clear goalto slow down. After two frenetic years she needed to take a step back and focus on developing her technique and art practice. ESCAPE is the product of this pace change, its icon, and a map guiding us towards this same freedom.

For Velitchkova the relationship between artist and machine is deeply collaborative, nurturing unexpected elements that emerge from the code. This algorithm began in systems that balance order and chaos. First a distinctive style reminiscent of architectural maps emerged. From this grew the brutalism characteristic of former Soviet cityscapes of the artists early childhood in Bulgaria. Ultimately stifled by this rigidity and repetition, Velitchkova pushed the algorithm furtherbreaking it and in the result discovering the form of an opera house, a structure that had become a symbol of freedom to the artist, the promise of losing oneself in art.

The overwhelming superstructure of architectural lines breaks the picture plane and seems to go beyond three dimensionality. By avoiding easy categorization, the viewer spends time considering the forms and making sense of the composition. It becomes possible to escape everyday concerns for a moment longer, lost in the almost mathematical task of viewing these geometries. The opera house icon emerges as an antidote to these illusive structures. This central figure is suddenly recognizable as a flat or three dimensional shape. Whether in dense black or highlighted as a central white figure, it is a condensation point, a place for our mind to rest. The images combine the icons of this escape but also serve as a visual guide to achieving it.

We are reminded of what art can offer usmental freedom. Yet ultimately this is an illusion. Just as the opera is a staged fiction with its own rules and schedule, this composition is not real; it is a staged performance specifically created to evoke this reaction.

ESCAPE BY ISKRA VELITCHKOVA

Escape #281

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains are secure domain names for the decentralized world. ENS domains provide a way for users to map human readable names to blockchain and non-blockchain resources, like Ethereum addresses, IPFS hashes, or website URLs. ENS domains can be bought and sold on secondary markets.

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Fellowship Collection: Post Photographic Perspectives 01

In Roope Rainisto's REWORLD, he explores society's complexities through the lens of AI-generated images, examining individual identities and cultural interplay. Rainisto's innovative use of machine learning marks a turning point in visual communication, reflecting our technology-driven era.

His world is familiar, but the intricate details reveal how visual representations have molded our perceptions. The images evoke a sense of belonging while confronting us with the notion that a machine has unraveled how we perceive ourselves.

Roope's wit and cultural understanding create a unique perspectivea REWORLD with cleverly reimagined elements. Beyond mere fantasy, this elevated reality captivates and challenges our imagination, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in art.

REWORLD by Roope Rainisto

The REWORLD series by Roope Rainisto offers a contemplation of the intricacies of society through the interplay of bodies, identities, groups, events, and designed spaces. Rainisto's use of machine learning systems to generate images marks a turning point in our understanding of visual communication, providing a concentrated essence of visual thinking that reflects our technology-driven era. The world Rainisto creates is both familiar and unsettling, with fine yet flawed details that highlight how our perceptions are molded by visual representations. Through a unique perspective, Rainisto's images present figures and locales that challenge our imagination and venture into an elevated reality.



 Year: 2023

Edition: NFT 1 of 1

Copyright:  2023 Roope Rainisto. All Rights Reserved.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Early Bird

Auntieverse by Niceaunties

The "Spa Menu" is a continual exploration of themes revolving around beauty, skin, and youth. Set in Aunties Beauty Spa, this chapter showcases a realm of intense beauty treatments, including acupuncture and body wraps using fresh ingredients. Here, aunties are depicted enduring various beauty sessions, often maintaining a smile through the process.
Portraits of aunties receiving facial treatments feature a mix of different elements  parts of creatures, ingredients, objects, and needles  adorning their faces. Tiny construction workers and machines are also depicted busily at work on their visages. These images symbolise the discomfort and effort women endure to conform to societal standards of youth and beauty. The level of alteration and treatment they undergo is likened to a mini construction site, highlighting the extensive and often painful lengths undertaken in the pursuit of these ideals.

Chapter No. 2, Spa Menu #0119

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This Genesis Pass gives you access to Mint or Skip premium features through May 2024.

Mint or Skip Genesis Pass

This Genesis Pass gives you access to Mint or Skip premium features through May 2024. 

Embarking on a fresh chapter in the adidas web3 journey, we transcend the realms of Into the Metaverse towards Phase 3: ALTS by adidas.

Episode 1: coming April 2023. You may not come back the same...

ALTS by adidas

Embarking on a fresh chapter in the adidas web3 journey, we transcend the realms of Into the Metaverse into Phase 3: ALTS by adidas.

Update: Your ALTS by adidas NFT metadata has been updated with your ALT[er] Ego. [Learn more and check the utility](https://collect.adidas.com). [Terms and conditions](https://a.did.as/collect_tc).

ALTS by adidas #16505

Post Photographic Perspectives is Fellowship's inaugural group show celebrating a new wave of innovation in photography.

In a world that ceases to exist, every universal being coincides in a peculiar harmony. Their individual tales and perceptions are woven together in a mysterious fabric of connections, unearthing a realm too vast to comprehend. The bonds between its inhabitants and their
stories forever remain etched in time and are stronger than any tangible fabric of reality.

Surreal and ethereal depictions of this place offer stolen moments of insight. It is where the impossible becomes a daily occurrence, and a veil of uncertainty is lifted to reveal a glimpse of the extraordinary. This alternate realm of existence is a testament to the power of the human
spirit, the limitless potential of the mind, and the ever-changing nature of the universe.

Mindscape by Katie Morris

"In a world that ceases to exist, every universal being coincides in a peculiar harmony. Their individual tales and perceptions are woven together in a mysterious fabric of connections, unearthing a realm too vast to comprehend. The bonds between its inhabitants and their stories forever remain etched in time and are stronger than any tangible fabric of reality. 
Surreal and ethereal depictions of this place offer stolen moments of insight. It is where the impossible becomes a daily occurrence, and a veil of uncertainty is lifted to reveal a glimpse of the extraordinary. This alternate realm of existence is a testament to the power of the human spirit, the limitless potential of the mind, and the ever-changing nature of the universe."



 Year: 2023

Edition: NFT 1 of 1

Copyright:  2023 Katie Morris. All Rights Reserved.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Subject #96

Heralding the dawn of NFT power users, OpenSea Pro unlocks a new level of optionality, selection, and control for pro NFT collectors. Previously known as Gem, OpenSea Pro has been months in the making, culminating in the platforms rebirth as the most powerful NFT marketplace aggregator.

Commemorating our communitys journey, we are releasing Gemesis, a thank you to Gem community members who have steered the ship with us. This limited-edition collection encapsulates our evolution, celebrates our community, and embodies the exciting road ahead.

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Gemesis

Heralding the dawn of NFT power users, OpenSea Pro unlocks a new level of optionality, selection, and control for pro NFT collectors. Previously known as Gem, OpenSea Pro has been months in the making, culminating in the platforms rebirth as the most powerful NFT marketplace aggregator. Commemorating our communitys journey, we are releasing Gemesis, a thank you to Gem community members who have steered the ship with us. This limited-edition collection encapsulates our evolution, celebrates our community, and embodies the exciting road ahead.