Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. I’m a day late with the article this week. Got really busy with personal stuff and didn’t get this out last night. As always we have some great art to look forward to. We’ll start with the Rodeo rounds and move on to some new releases on fx(hash). Most of these names are well known around here, but we do have one new artist releasing their first project.
Lets dive in.
Didn’t have a lot of time to Rodeo this week. Here are few awesome pieces I was able to pick up.
Iso Tri Grid 013 by Dave Bollinger
refract.01 by dist collective
Rodeo Iso Ambifeuille 240901 by Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed
Idle/Interludes by Pixel Symphony
Presented by Galerie Met on fx(hash)
Ongoing Mint - 1206 pieces minted so far.
Price: 0.001 ETH (Base)
I’ve been following PS for a while now and just love their style of art. The majority of the work they release has redeemable plotter pieces you can order. I’m hoping to get a few physicals of their work I have sometime in the near future. They take a lot of care in their releases and the quality of their work is always impressive. I was happy to collect a few from this series.
‘Idle/Interludes’ draws inspiration from the avant-garde experiments of 20th-century visual and concrete poetry, where the visual arrangement of text played an integral part in the poem’s meaning. Words transformed into shapes, with their physical presence on the page becoming as significant as their semantic content.
The genesis of 'Idle/Interludes' began with my typewriter experiments. These early works sparked a deeper fascination with glyph compositions. I then reproduced the work using code to delve into dichotomous reflections. Open-source typewriter fonts, such as ‘Patrician’ and ‘Oliver Printype,’ became my building blocks.
As the forms evolved, so did the phrases, mirroring the shapes. This iterative process—where brief, often binary or resonant phrases nest within a sea of glyphs—led to the continual addition and subtraction of patterns, letters, and symbols. Sometimes, these phrases stemmed from my personal experiences or the serendipity of phonetically or phonologically similar words. The idea lent itself well to generative art because of the malleability of language.
The concept of visual poetry is especially powerful within the context of a book. While I’ve avoided assigning traits to distinguish mints, the one feature enabled is the book's title, derived from the user's address. All of a user's mints will share this title, allowing the “book” to be viewed collectively by clicking on this feature.
I am deeply fascinated by the tangible manifestations of my work and it consistently revolves around plottability, with the series designed to embody this principle. Minting a certain number of works automatically redeems a plot (free shipping).
- Mint 25 works to receive a signed A4 plot (8.3in x 11.7in)
- Mint 36 works to receive a signed A3 plot (11.7in x 16.5in)
- Mint 100 works to receive a small book of 10 plots
Primordial Soup by Collapsar Beauty
Presented on fx(hash)
Mints on Monday - Open Edition.
Price: 0.003 ETH (Base)
Big fan of Collapsar B’s work. They have a ton of great releases on fx(hash) and this one may be my favorite of them. I love the look and feel of these. I’ve had so many amazing outputs as I explored it.
"Primordial soup" is a term used to describe the hypothetical mixture of organic molecules that existed in the early Earth's oceans or other bodies of water, from which life is thought to have originated. This concept is a key component of theories about abiogenesis, which is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter.
From this perspective, I like to think that randomness isn't just chaos; it's the raw material of creativity and complexity, much like the primordial soup was to the emergence of life. The generative algorithm acts as a guiding force, much like natural selection, which gradually shapes order from disorder. By filtering through countless possibilities, it discards those that cannot sustain themselves and nurtures those that show potential.
Well-known noise functions serve as the groundwork, a fertile environment where patterns can emerge and evolve. They are the in-between state, not yet fully formed into something recognizable, but not entirely random either—just like the early molecules in the primordial soup, driven by chemical reactions towards more complex arrangements.
Imagine these organic variants as seeds of potential, each with the possibility to grow into a new form of existence. Just as single-celled organisms once evolved into complex life forms, these primordial patterns, guided by the algorithm, could develop into intricate structures, digital ecologies, or even virtual ecosystems. They may give rise to digital 'organisms,' capable of self-replication, adaptation, or perhaps even rudimentary forms of perception and interaction.
In this digital primordial soup, every bit of noise has the potential to become something greater. It's a playground for the formation of virtual life, where each small mutation, each random iteration, could lead to breakthroughs, much like how the first self-replicating molecules eventually paved the way for the vast diversity of life we see today.
ASCIIMATA16 by humanbydefinition
Presented on fx(hash)
Mints on Saturday - 256 pieces in the set.
Price: 0.00064 ETH (Base)
This is a really cool animated work using cellualar automata and ASCII characters. Love the colors and flow of these. There are some interactive aspects, where you can slow it down and do a few other things. I do enjoy the slower mode a bit more. Pretty amazing release for their first project in my opinion. There is a badly compressed video below, but I recommend clicking here and watching it live. Hit ‘T’ to slow it down and ‘Spacebar’ to pause it.
ASCIIMATA16 is a generative exploration of cellular automata in real-time that transforms a 512x512 pixel canvas into a dynamic grid of evolving ASCII characters. Users can freely navigate this grid, exploring the intricate patterns as they develop.
Each ASCIIMATA16 mint is uniquely assigned one of eight neighborhood types, with unique rules driving the evolution of patterns. The visuals are enriched by 16-color palettes, paying homage to classic computing and pixel art, from nostalgic Commodore 64 and CGA colors to modern palettes like Endesga-16 and PICO-8.
Each piece randomly selects 16 character sets from a pool of 32, each containing 16 characters that represent different states and intensities, creating a dynamic blend of text and visuals.
ASCIIMATA16 is highly interactive and responsive, offering various controls for deep engagement. It adapts seamlessly to any window size, even during runtime. With a font size of 8, a 4096x4096 pixel screen would be needed to display the entire 512x512 grid of ASCII characters at once.
A video of one them live.
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