The Weekly Roundup #103
Looking at digital art projects and releases.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. We are back after our first break in well over a year. It was Mother’s day last Sunday and I spent the weekend with family. It was nice to take a break, but I’m happy to be back writing about art. I have a bunch of Rodeo mints to share. Some amazing WIPs from Harvey Rayner and his ongoing project. We also have two new projects to check out. One is a free ongoing mint and the other is a beautiful AI based project. We have a lot of art to check out today.
Lets dive in.
Rodeo mints of the week.
FUJIWARA by Alexis Montero | ALEMONT™
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER by 👑KING XEROX👑
Tapestry, Part 5 by Matt Perkins
Harvey Rayner’s ongoing project WIPs.
If you know anything about Harvey Rayner, you should know he is always cooking something. The man is constantly creating and working on multiple projects at a time. Over the last few months he has been sharing WIPs from this new project. I’ve been blown away by the progress and wanted to share some of the pieces from it. No real news yet on the blockchain or release date. I’ll share more as we learn more about it.
Presented on fx(hash)
Ongoing Mint - 11,226 minted in the series.
Price: Free Mint + Gas (On Base)
This one is a free mint on Base. You only have to pay gas and that is super cheap on that chain. You are paying pennies to pick up some really cool art. I really love the minimal outputs you can get with these. I was happy with the two I got out of eight mints. They have such a cool look to them. There are some pretty amazing vibrant pieces as well.
Still C #1733 owned by abnormality
Still C #1731 owned by abnormality
Still C #11227 owned by abnormality
Just a big dot with a lot of little dots inside.
This piece arranges shapes with varied fill patterns and outlines, leveraging transformer and traversal algorithms while responding to an underlying flow field system.
Presented by Artists Room on Verse
Mints on Wednesday - 150 pieces in the set.
Price: Details of the sale will be added shortly.
These pieces start out as images resembling art from the Renaissance period and slowly evolve into flowing, melding colors. There is a brush like painterly look to each one.
I really recommend reading this article about the project. They have an interview with the artist.
Simulated Dreams and Digital Neural Paintings: Orkhan's Rêveries
He's using these computational tools very consciously to explore our relationship with culture, heritage, collective memory, very human things. He’s not just showcasing cool AI outputs—he’s probing how AI affects us psychologically and culturally.
He sees art as a meta-discipline that brings together philosophy, tech, and critique. And he is inspired by people like, you know, Nam June Paik, Jody, even theorists like McLuhan and Manovich. Mm-hmm. People who were thinking about media's impact way back. It's part of a longer conversation about technology and society.
Artist Rooms presents Rêveries, the latest series by Orkhan Mammadov. At the heart of Rêveries lies a fascination with how artificial neural networks—originally designed for tasks such as image classification and pattern recognition—can be repurposed to generate complex, painterly textures. Drawing on early inspirations from Google’s DeepDream experiments and subsequent developments in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and texture synthesis, Mammadov’s work examines the ways machines “see” and abstract the world.
This series finds philosophical footing in the concept of dreamscapes: spaces where recognizable forms give way to fluid, evolving patterns. The artist embraces the partial disintegration of representational imagery, allowing intuitive play between human intention and machine processes. In this liminal zone, Rêveries proposes an aesthetic that is neither purely algorithmic nor entirely human—rather, a symbolic collaboration revealing the hidden “mind’s eye” of neural networks.
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