The Weekly Roundup #77
Looking at digital art projects and releases.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. Marfa is right around the corner. I set off with my wife on Thursday morning for an 8 hour trip across Texas. This will be my third year going. I’ll be writing an article about the trip like I always do. I plan on caring my camera with me everywhere this year. I’ve already planned out a few things to check out and RSVP’d a few artist exhibits. My past trips have been amazing experiences. Every year I take a new person with me, so I’m excited to finally have my wife coming to experience it. There are a lot of cool things happening this week, but I can only cover a few of them. I’ll talk about some normal drops going on and a couple things happening in Marfa.
Lets dive in.
If you are going to Marfa please reach out if you would like to meet. I love meeting new people from this space. Lots of kind and interesting people here. Hoping to see some of the familiar faces this year as well. I know I’ll be meeting Harvey Rayner once again and having a drink this year. I’m sure I’ll be seeing Haiver as well.
Rodeo Mints
I haven’t covered any Rodeo mints in a little while. I haven’t been collecting much stuff lately. I really like the new system they have setup for minting. Ended up grabbing a few things I really liked. The first one is the last mint I did a month or so ago.
Riding The Wave by P1x3lboy
HAI Rodeo by Roger Haus
Daydreams by Matt Perkins
Waiting for a miracle by Nikalaus
🐈 by Nikalaus
FLEETING PLEASURES by yungwknd & mendezmendez
Presented on Highlight
Ongoing Mint - 71 out of 100 Minted.
Price: 0.0969 ETH +0.0008 ETH
This is such an amazing collab, one I didn’t know we needed. I showed the stages of the pieces in the gallery below. Each piece is tied to the time of day, losing light as the day goes on. Such a moving, poignant, beautiful piece of art.
"Fleeting Pleasures" is a modern take on the classical Vanitas theme, where the juxtaposition of flowers and a human skull symbolizes the transient nature of life and the inevitability of death—a reminder of our limited time on this planet. Each piece features a unique combination of flowers, while the lighting gradually shifts throughout the day, reflecting the natural passage of time, from dawn to dusk, hour by hour. A collaborative piece between mendezmendez, yungwknd, and OG.
ISO/IEC 10646 by Paul Prudence
Presented on Verse
Mints on Tuesday - 144 pieces in the set.
Price: Fixed price $120 // 0.037 ETH
I’ve been following Paul for a little while and was really happy to see this project on Verse. I think I came across his work on Rodeo and just really liked his art. He has such a great style. I think he really nailed the aesthetic feel of the dot-matrix and punch card systems of old. It ties in so well to that DOS screen look and feel. It is such a nice blend of archaic computing. Some of you may not be familiar and even for me some of it was on it’s way out of being used as I started my career in computers. Paul really captured the feeling of that era.
ISO/IEC 10646* marks a culmination in a series of works exploring the use of text and signs as a material from which to weave fabrics of encoded patterns. The collection explores the historical links between weaving and computing, and their shared history of punched-card programming.
Using solely the Unicode block elements as a base material, the generated patterns evoke a nostalgia for the age of teletype and early dot-matrix printers while simultaneously referencing early computational aesthetics such as arcade games and command-line interfaces. Now no longer tied to their original utility for use in software terminal emulation these special characters, which are today index fossils from the early era of computing, have been transcoded into weave patterns that define larger pictorial systems. Just as there are ancient tapestries depicting scenes from culturally significant events, some outputs of ISO/IEC 10646 recall images of our earliest arcade games with scenes of partly-destroyed fortresses and floating space debris, rockets and asteroids. But among the many permutations of the collection you will also find the traces of cartographic systems, the rubrics of ciphers and the aesthetics of MS DOS's Defrag program.
ISO/IEC 10646 is a homage to the computational universality of the grid for mapping and as a tool for notation. It celebrates grids as encoders of transferable intelligence and is a paean to the grid's universal interactions which - as intimated by Turing's revolutionary thesis - culminates in the proposition that that universality could be used to reconstruct all human knowledge.
ClownVamp will be having an exhibit in Marfa. Opens Thursday.
introducing THE JUNK MACHINE! Please read this tweet to learn all about the drop with a freaking physical Pink Robot! That also spits out prints! I can’t wait to check this out in person. I have a feeling there will be a line for this exhibit.
> A physical, interactive ai art robot
> Immersive solo show and collection drop in Marfa
> Ongoing generative public art project critiquing how AI is corrupting advertising
This will be hosted in this really cool building that use to be a Church. I went to an exhibit their in 2022. I’m really happy they are having it there. Everything inside is going to be pink. Should be pretty wild.
Do Right Hall - 110 W. Dallas St.
Presented on fx(hash)
Mints on Thursday - Open Edition - Marfa Drop
Price: 0 Tezos
This is another project being released at Marfa. A physical piece you collect that will have a serial number on it. You use that to mint a piece on fx(hash) with. I love having companion pieces from Marfa. Every year I come home with a few NFTs that will always remind me of the trip. This year looks to be no different. This is a params project, you will help decide how the final mint looks by exploring the algorithm. Each piece can have letters that spell out Marfa or just have a few letters from the word. I didn’t get to explore this one as much as it deserves.
'stacked' is an experimental project developed for the generative art gathering of MARFA 2024 (TX).
During Marfa, I will print and hand out generative stickers. Each sticker has a serial number, which can be used to redeem the corresponding NFT until the end of November 2024.
Letters from 'MARFA' are decomposed into dot-matrix characters, these dots falling on a grid and stacked on top of each other as more letters are randomly added. The dots themselves are composed of an outer and inner layer, and these layers are combined to produce circular shapes of various intensities.
Five internal parameters guide the aesthetics of the final render. To reduce the universe of outputs to a more coherent ensemble, a custom machine learning algorithm was developed to categorize outputs and drive the parameters towards pleasing outputs (pleasing to me, that is..)
The title, of course, is a nod to Donald Judd's famous works, 'stacks', which are on display at the Judd Foundation in Marfa, TX.
Explore and have fun!
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