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PIONEER GRAILS - YELLOW TREE

I studied architecture in Stuttgart. Max Bense lectured in what was then known as the Studium Generale. I don"t believe something like that exists anymore. People from all kinds of faculties gathered there. It was really exciting. There were no exams like in statics, building law, design, and so on. It was about questions concerning the art form of concrete poetry, which was fashionable at the time, about the types of language that might be used there, and about the more general question of when something is art. When does something stop being art?

Bense"s answer, very briefly: Avoid the term art altogether. The term art is far too loaded, Bense said. Therefore, introduce the term "aesthetic event."

The design of YELLOW TREE comes down to just three decisions: the design of a piece of code that makes use of randomly generated, but somehow predefined, polygonal lines; a color for the object generated; and a color for the background. In my opinion, it is the strictness and simplicity of this setup that are of interest for its qualification as an aesthetic event.

 Hans Dehlinger

YELLOW TREE (2001) by Hans Dehlinger is a print of a coded vector file that was originally written for and executed on a pen plotter. A great number of polygonal lines consisting of straight line segments originate in a very small square area at the bottom of the page, a symbol for the "root area" of the tree.

The blue background color is a reference to a wide blue sky in summer. The yellow reminds us of the time of harvest from the soil of the earth. The first instance of each line is always generated vertically and upwardsthe "stem of the tree". The lines further unfold and spread upward into the entire drawing area and are clipped at its borders.

EXPANDED.ART"S PIONEER GRAILS is a series of 72-HOUR OPEN NFT EDITIONS presenting paradigmatic artworks from key figures in the history of digital art.

Edition 83 / Open Edition

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YELLOW TREE #83

I studied architecture in Stuttgart. Max Bense lectured in what was then known as the Studium Generale. I don"t believe something like that exists anymore. People from all kinds of faculties gathered there. It was really exciting. There were no exams like in statics, building law, design, and so on. It was about questions concerning the art form of concrete poetry, which was fashionable at the time, about the types of language that might be used there, and about the more general question of when something is art. When does something stop being art?

Bense"s answer, very briefly: Avoid the term art altogether. The term art is far too loaded, Bense said. Therefore, introduce the term "aesthetic event."

The design of YELLOW TREE comes down to just three decisions: the design of a piece of code that makes use of randomly generated, but somehow predefined, polygonal lines; a color for the object generated; and a color for the background. In my opinion, it is the strictness and simplicity of this setup that are of interest for its qualification as an aesthetic event.

 Hans Dehlinger

YELLOW TREE (2001) by Hans Dehlinger is a print of a coded vector file that was originally written for and executed on a pen plotter. A great number of polygonal lines consisting of straight line segments originate in a very small square area at the bottom of the page, a symbol for the "root area" of the tree.

The blue background color is a reference to a wide blue sky in summer. The yellow reminds us of the time of harvest from the soil of the earth. The first instance of each line is always generated vertically and upwardsthe "stem of the tree". The lines further unfold and spread upward into the entire drawing area and are clipped at its borders.

EXPANDED.ART"S PIONEER GRAILS is a series of 72-HOUR OPEN NFT EDITIONS presenting paradigmatic artworks from key figures in the history of digital art.

Edition 82 / Open Edition

Verisart Certified: https://verisart.com/works/e0f3f5d2-5c1f-47b6-a32b-5d3ef459e466

YELLOW TREE #82

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PIONEER GRAILS - ANDROMEDA

ANDROMEDA by Heinrich Heidersberger is released as part of PIONEER GRAILS on the occasion of the exhibition THE THINKING MACHINE. PRESENTING PIONEERS, 1953-2023 at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin. In collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART, curated by Anika Meier and Georg Bak. 

Heinrich Heidersberger"s black and white RHYTHMOGRAMS were created between 1953 and 1965 as design elements for a mural in a technical college. He developed the rhythmograms from simpler to increasingly complex, almost deconstructivist forms, some of which were created using photographic techniques such as reversal and solarization. Color was the next logical step. The archive contained colored foils measuring 6 x 6 cm, which Heidersberger assembled into five colored rhythmograms between 1960 and 1970. 

Finally, in 1973, Heidersberger screen-printed two color RHYTHMOGRAM posters (ANDROMEDA and ENERGY) in black-light active neon colors that were marketed internationally and were particularly successful in London.

Heidersberger also received recognition from artistic circles for his topicality. Jean Cocteau, for example, was impressed by the relevance of his work. It was very early on that the Frenchman bought a RYTHMOGRAM as a birthday present for Picasso.

As Heidersberger decided to pursue the art of photography in Paris at the end of the 1920s, more by accident and as a result of his insatiable curiosity than anything else, photographers were still known as lensmen, a name that really seemed to fit Heidersberger.

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Ethereum, Evolved: Dencun is an NFT collection created by Consensys to commemorate Ethereums latest upgrade, Cancun-Deneb, the latest milestone achievement on the Ethereum roadmap that will collectively improve the networks scalability and significantly reduce gas costs for L2 users and developers. 

This Open Edition of the NFT showcases our unique visualization of the Ethereum ecosystem where elements of nature and blockchain technology come together to depict an epic, futuristic landscape. The hand-animated blobs layered onto the scene represent the scalability the Dencun upgrade brings to Ethereum L2s.

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MATH is a work of synthetic photography by conceptual artist Kevin Abosch created in 2023.

MATH by KEVIN ABOSCH

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2024 STUDIO KEVIN ABOSCH

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OPEN EDITION BY KEVIN ABOSCH is the artist's contribution to the discussion pertaining to the fashion of open editions. Referencing the aesthetic of his own COMMENT-OUT series from 2021, Kevin Abosch presents his first open-editioned artwork and will leave it to collectors to speculate as to why he chose to create this work and how it will be valued. Be prepared for the unexpected.

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