Art Blocks Explorations

marfaMESH is an event-driven generative art experiment that took place over the course of Marfa 2023, Sept 21st to 24th. To participate attendees were required to download the marfaMESH app developed by Shane Richardson (Breath You, Ouroboros) and wear a NFC Card lanyard powered by IYK. Scanning other peoples lanyards built a social graph of interactions that created personalized artworks for each participant that evolved throughout the event. When scanning, the app prompted users to take a picture from which colors and basic forms were abstracted and fed into the emerging artwork. Interactions nodes are clustered based on eleven key geo locations and there is a night day mode based on time of last interaction.  The projects primary objective was to serve as an icebreaker to help bring about connections between people that wouldnt have met otherwise. 

It is hoped that this project is an example of how generative art can be used to create highly personalized art chronicles of an event. Art that helps to preserve memories and create a treasured artifact thats an extension of the ticket stub or merch item we are all familiar with. It"s my belief that generative art has inherent properties that enable it to provide a new class of art that is part infographic; memorabilia; social graph; personal story and proof of participation. I can see a future in which a person"s inner and outer worlds can be expressed in an evolving, responsive and interactive artwork. These life-artworks may meld in real time with life-artworks from friends and family or as large community expressions. 

A global expression of all the data collected will be created and auctioned as a one of one in the coming year. While it might seem that the individual outputs in this series will have the greatest value and meaning to the co-creators, a single collective expression of the event may have more value and meaning to art culture as a whole. Profits from this auction will be reinvested into the continued exploration of this approach of which marfaMESH has served as a compelling early proof-of-concept.

marfaMESH #312

Pirate Nation - Mystery Chest

A mysterious chest washes ashore. It is yours to claim, me hearty. How & when it'll unlock, and what it may contain, you'll have to find out later.

Glitch Blooms: Topaz Crypt x Props

Glitch Blooms is an art collection exploring the beauty of chaos through a hybrid of AI art, glitch processing, and simple shapes and brushwork.

@Topaz_Crypt x @Props

Glitch Bloom #94

The contrast of delicate ephemeral beauty, with a million year old black rock.Because we're all going to die some day, so lets live on forever in the blockchain

@liquiddensity x @Props

[Roots of Midnight]: [liquid density] x Props

Roots of Midnight #67

Deadfellaz RIPTCG Vault

RIP TCG is a digital trading card game in early development at DFZ LABS. A fast, brutal evolution of the digital TCG experience & web3 enabled gaming.


The RIP TCG VAULT includes access to a 3 stage unlock of digital trading cards that become available to the owner as the RIP TCG product moves from alpha stage development to open release.


Each VAULT is a unique (non-fungible) token lying on the public Ethereum blockchain (ERC-721).


Terms and conditions apply.

All VAULT and RIP TCG details are subject to change.

Digital access only, this item does NOT include physical trading cards.

All digital items associated to the RIP TCG are subject to change during the course of development. We reserve all rights to edit this product past the point of sale.

RIPTCG Vault #1812

RIPTCG Vault #1811

RIPTCG Vault #1810

The FlyZ

The FlyZ #2828

The FlyZ #2827

The FlyZ #589

The FlyZ #588

The FlyZ #587

Infinity

String Theory

String Theory is a generative art homage to Jackson Pollock. 
 The lines in String Theory meander across the canvas and turn as they approach edges.  Animation shows the layers being applied starting with thick blobs and lines, and ending with thin lines and dots, and a possibility of an additional paper texture.  Other attributes include the overall form type, line transparency, the line starting direction and the line outline.  There are 32 possible color palettes.

The project is made with 100% code using the p5.js library and finishes with a grain shader made by Dave Pagurek, Gorilla Sun, and their colleagues.

To save a 6000 x 4500 pixel png, view the token"s page on Artgene, click on the canvas, and then press "s."

Steve"s Makerspace has published several successful projects on fxhash, and he makes how-to gen-art videos on YouTube, with 4,600 subscribers.  His mission is to inspire gen artists to share their gold with the world.

The project was minted on Artgene.xyz.

String Theory #25

Mallary Vintage

Bob"s experimentation with wire-frame forms was wide-ranging, often treating them as sculptural objects, others having a decidedly architectural quality. This is one of the former, appearing to sit on a pedestal like an exhibit in a museum.

Wire #001

Deadfrenz is a collection of 13,000 unique NFTs brought to you by Deadfellaz as a companion project, complimenting the original collections with both aesthetics and utility, with a special focus on gaming. Deadfrenz is made up of 13 species, each with their own array of traits and variance. As in the original collections, rarity is statistical and secret traits are not always listed, but discovered.

You can still mint Deadfrenz via [Deadfrenz Lab Access Pass](https://opensea.io/collection/deadfrenz-lab-access-pass)

Deadfrenz Collection

Deadfrenz is a collection of 13,000 unique NFTs brought to you by Deadfellaz as a companion project, complimenting the original collections with both aesthetics and utility, with a special focus on gaming. Deadfrenz is made up of 13 species, each with their own array of traits and variance. As in the original collections, rarity is statistical and secret traits are not always listed, but discovered. Within the collection, 13 1/1 'Alpha' Deadfrenz exist. These will hold special utility to be revealed in the future.

DeadFren #7987

The world we know grows from the nest we start in.

Everything we perceive has always been contained in the intricate fibers of that nest. However far we reach beyond it, we're entangled... forever tethered to our nest.

Nests are complete or broken, dense or sparse, sturdy or delicate, protected or exposed. At times they're all of those things.

No nest is perfect. No nest can be imperfect.

Nests by Truedrew

The world we know grows from the nest we start in.

Everything we perceive has always been contained in the intricate fibers of that nest. However far we reach beyond it, we"re entangled... forever tethered to our nest.

Nests are complete or broken, dense or sparse, sturdy or delicate, protected or exposed. At times they"re all of those things.

No nest is perfect. No nest can be imperfect.