[Wild Signature Collection](https://wild.xyz/mitchell-f-chan/the-boys-of-summer/)

Description: [The Boys of Summer](https://boysofsummer.chan.gallery/) is a digital game artwork and generative PFP collection by Mitchell F. Chan that investigates our worlds favorite pastime: the quantification of self. With an irreverent, provocative lens, using baseball characters and statistics as the creative medium, the work prompts us to examine our own value system and our inherent biases that shape our potential in how society decides what - and who - is successful. 

About the Artist: [Mitchell F. Chan](https://wild.xyz/mitchell-f-chan/)

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The Boys of Summer by Mitchell F. Chan

The Boys of Summer is a transmedia art project about the quantified self, data as commodity, and baseball. The 999 PFPs in the project begin their existence free from almost all attribute or trait data. Build a story for Fernando by connecting to [boysofsummer.chan.gallery](https://boysofsummer.chan.gallery)

Fernando Castro

Introducing the last piece in the AI-driven art series: Computer Science (Death of), 2023. The occurrence of this specific square composition manifests approximately once per 8,000 iterations. All secondary royalties royalties go towards a perpetual bid/burn of the original collection.

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Introducing the last piece in the AI-driven art series: Computer Science (Death of), 2023. The occurrence of this specific square composition manifests approximately once per 8,000 iterations. All secondary royalties royalties go towards a perpetual bid/burn of the original collection. Open edition limited to 500.

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20 artists. 20+ new artworks. Artist identities revealed on August 11.

View the full collection: [proof.xyz/grails](https://proof.xyz/grails)
Purchase a mint pass: [Grails IV: Mint Pass](https://opensea.io/collection/grails-iv-mint-pass)

Grails IV

Upon encountering Matisse's ""Blue Nudes"" series, I found myself intrigued by the photograph of a room adorned with these simple yet evocative depictions of the human form. At first glance the figures appeared as harmonious abstractions, each embodying a shared pose while subtly diverging in unique ways upon closer inspection. This experience ignited my fascination with the artistic endeavor to recreate the same essence through multiple iterations, prompting a contemplation on the role of variations in a generative art series in an era often fixated on extravagant algorithmic diversity.

Here we aim to celebrate subtlety. This project employs not only the randomness inherent to algorithms but also the serendipity of human intervention. Anchored in my own hand-drawn inputs, the process intertwines organic paths with algorithmic automation, generating polygons that exude the beauty of nuanced distinctions.

Beyond technique, this endeavor mirrors an autobiographical passage  a celebration of my evolution from functional coder to constructor of pure form. Matisse's iconic method of composing with cut paper  initially a preparatory ritual  mirrors my own journey. What once served utilitarian software now finds purpose in artistry, code morphing into my chosen medium of artistic expression. This metamorphosis, a kinship to Matisse's transformation, is my homage to the creative odyssey that beckons when code transcends its pragmatic origins.

Drawing with Code #98

The advancement of my art involved sequential, gradual, and consistent experimentation. It was never a binary of a certain style "working" and another "failing". The changes over time flowed, one after another, and came to me naturally. I went where the art took me. It required hundreds of artworks before my art arrived to where it is today, where it is still evolving, and will evolve perpetually.
The exhibited piece, Paying Debts is from a time where the strictly-collage style was expanding with a layer of illustrations. The main classical art piece that "Paying Debts" is based on is "The Last Statement" by Arthur Kampf.
During this time, my art was much simpler in its detail. I do not remember exactly, but this piece probably took me a few hours over the course of a few days to create. It shows the combination of collage with immature illustration on top. The faces on the characters foreshadow the creation of my colorful, hooded characters called "fiends". The clouds in the background were illustrated by me, but are far less detailed than the clouds I draw today.
This piece is important to me because it shows how far my art has come. My work gained traction in 2021, but not many people have looked back at my older work and how it has consistently evolved into where it is today. Its important to look back into any artists career to see first-hand that it is almost never an overnight "success."

Paying Debts

Madonna

My cat is the only living being that understands me.

A Perfect Friday Night

A private group of 1000 dedicated NFT collectors and artists. Membership to the collective and all of the benefits come from holding the PROOF Collective NFT.

PROOF Collective

An art collective supporting the Digital Renaissance. Our 1,000 members are collectors and artists brought together by the belief that art is proof of our collective humanity, forming the unbroken chain of our shared human experience.

In addition to membership to Proofs exclusive digital and IRL community, Proof Pass holders gain access to unique opportunities to connect with artists and own and champion their art.

Membership of the Collective in its current form is valid 1/1/2022 to 1/1/2025. Post 2025 plans are TBA - stay tuned for more information.

Bubble

'Bubble' is a dynamic, on-chain collection that calls attention to the objecthood of digital artworks by responding to market activity. Born in a binary state, each 'Bubble' is 'inflated' at mint, and designated a resiliency parameter. If the collector reaches the resiliency threshold, through trading before the parameter is met, the Bubble will explode! After that, the Bubble becomes 'immortalized,' irreversibly. Each token's smart contract records its state ('inflated/immortalized') on-chain, and displays a corresponding visual expression. Pulling on the tensions between ephemerality, permanence, and fragility, 'Bubble' both concretizes and questions the volatility of the market.

Collectors can transfer their tokens after minting without the bubble changing during a 6 hour grace period.

[View Live Version](https://arweave.net/Oo5JNWnAflQ0TnNHqQM5n6tHklcEtPjPnu_WQBwLlZE/index.html?tokenId=105&alive=1)

Bubble #105

'Bubble' is a dynamic, on-chain collection that calls attention to the objecthood of digital artworks by responding to market activity. Born in a binary state, each 'Bubble' is 'inflated' at mint, and designated a resiliency parameter. If the collector reaches the resiliency threshold, through trading before the parameter is met, the Bubble will explode! After that, the Bubble becomes 'immortalized,' irreversibly. Each token's smart contract records its state ('inflated/immortalized') on-chain, and displays a corresponding visual expression. Pulling on the tensions between ephemerality, permanence, and fragility, 'Bubble' both concretizes and questions the volatility of the market.

Collectors can transfer their tokens after minting without the bubble changing during a 6 hour grace period.

[View Live Version](https://arweave.net/Oo5JNWnAflQ0TnNHqQM5n6tHklcEtPjPnu_WQBwLlZE/index.html?tokenId=104&alive=1)

Bubble #104

Zone Harmonics by Chris McCully

Combining a romanticized view of the local music scene I grew up in and my current appreciation for poster design, this project aims to capture a colorful abstraction of the promotional flyers you and your bandmates might xerox print by the hundreds and spread across the city.

Zone Harmonics #163

Zone Harmonics #41

Take the futurism of mid-1990s graphic design, merged with the fake-nostalgia vaporwave of a reimagining of Win95, channeled through the lens of modern generative art and you get FALLiNGWATER. Swapping Jolt Cola for Green Tea, Coral Draw and Photoshop 2.5 for code and a single poster design for an infinite number of variations, Daniel digs back into what made him love graphic design in the first place for his entry to the Flatlands group show.

FALLiNGWATER by Daniel Catt

FALLiNGWATER #227

FALLiNGWATER #210

Distance is a series of computational artworks created by French artist William Mapan, generated randomly on chain. Volume 5 of The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts Remembrance of Things Future initiative, in which contemporary artists experimenting with blockchain technology are invited to respond to works in the museum, Distance is Mapans homage to Paul Klees iconic 1914 watercolor, In the Kairouan Style, Transposed in a Moderate Way, in LACMAs encyclopedic collection. Made in support of LACMA's Art and Technology Lab in collaboration with Cactoid Labs, Distance is an exploration of color, form and the ability of code to give rise to painterly, organic textures that resolve into abstracted aerial landscapes. Distance is about standing back from what you see. I was reflecting on my past works and it is always about my personal experience. It is about seeing the bigger picture.

Distance by William Mapan

Distance #135

Peace Dissolution Lab

#9925

#9924

Entry Through the Print Shop by Torsten Sauer

A generative algorithm inspired by the screen printing technique and minimal op art.
Each image is created from multiple single-color layers. The overlapping colors blend and create new colors. The offset between the layers can produce moir effects of varying strength and dynamics.