The Weekly Roundup #79
Looking at digital art projects and releases.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. It’s been a week now since Marfa and I’ve got all the photos I took edited. I’ve started on the article, but it’s a busy time of the year here. I’ll most likely have it out by the end of the week. Really looking forward to sharing the trip with everyone. Marfa is a wonderful place and I love going there every year. We have some cool Rodeo mints to check out today. I’ve been missing out on some amazing art by not checking the site more often. Got pretty luck with my timing on a few of them this week. The two projects we are looking at are by two well known generative artists in the space.
Lets dive in.
Rodeo Mints
Semiopath by Paul Prudence
wip#131223 by Olga F
Totem animal by Nikalaus
🦓 by Nikalaus
HappyFx by Lammetje
The Falling by D I E L A
Presented on Highlight
Ongoing Open Edition Mint - 665 minted so far. (Open for 26 more days)
Price: 0.01 ETH - Mint Page
Matt should be a well known name in the space. He’s released a lot of amazing projects, but he is probably most known for Subscapes & Meridian which were both released on Art Blocks. Bitframes is a project to help crowdfund a documentary film that preserves the history of generative art. All the money from the mints will go to making that film. I don’t have much, but I minted one to try and help. Pretty cool to have a piece of his in my collection. I’m hoping to see this take off a little more and get some good funding to make this the best it can be.
This was the one I created after going through the algo for a while. You can generate outputs and there is a punch card on the site that represents the output. It shows a simulated version of your art in punch card form. There were other controls you could mess with the remove layers add colors and more. This was a lot of fun to play with. Please check it out. Not only do you get an amazing piece of art from a great artist. You are helping create a story about generative art to share with a wider audience.
Bitframes is a generative and systems-based artwork by Matt DesLauriers, inspired by punched cards and early computer art. Design your own outputs with the create tool, and publish them to the blockchain for a small fee. 100% of the net proceeds are being used to fund the production of a feature-length documentary film on the history of generative art.
Constructions Mentales by Hevey
Presented by fx(hash)
Mints on Wednesday - 444 pieces in the set.
Price: 25 Tezos
Hevey is a well known name in the fx(hash) scene. He has released some amazing work that I have had the pleasure of collecting some of them. Dencity, Fireworks, & Sequence are a few incredible ones to check out. Constructions Mentales has a very serious tone to the art and message behind it. It represents all the fears, sacrifices, and constraints that help shape our minds through out our lives. It’s a very beautiful work with deep symbolisms. You must read the meaning behind the art from the artist below. I am not doing it justice with my words.
In "Constructions Mentales" (Mental Constructions), every detail is a metaphor, every element a window into the labyrinths of our inner world. The work appears as a chaotic cluster of eroded, disordered architectural structures piled atop one another, resembling fragments of an ever-evolving edifice. The worn and damaged elements, though enduring, evoke the resilience of the mental constructions within us, even when marked by time and trials.
These structures symbolize the memories, experiences, and conditioning accumulated over a lifetime. Each brick, each crack tells a story: of social expectations, cultural demands, family norms, and emotional wounds that have shaped our being. These pillars, often built without our consent, reflect obsolete and ineffective patterns of thought that we continue to carry, like invisible burdens.
The barred windows, with prisoners standing behind them, represent the limiting beliefs and deep-seated fears that confine us within our own minds. They highlight the influence of social and familial conditioning, intangible yet powerfully shaping our choices and perceptions.
The scattered figures within the work add depth to this symbolism. Those curled up or sitting against walls embody repressed emotions, parts of ourselves we have learned to ignore, and pains we choose to silence. The hanging figure symbolizes sacrifice or moments of stagnation following hardship—a pause forced upon us to reconsider our perspectives and aspirations.
Thus, "Constructions Mentales" transcends the mere depiction of architectural chaos. It mirrors an inner chaos, unveiling the complex forces that shape our psyche and the ongoing struggle to integrate or transcend them. The piece invites the viewer to reflect, to reorganize their inner foundations, and to move toward a sense of freedom and transformation.
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