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We continue from where we left off last time as we share the pod summaries from @FloorisRising, where the hosts @kaifuku_kizu & @SabretoothSG talk about the generative artists that they found interesting.

This is the 2nd part of a two-part series. Read on 👇

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG Matt Deslauriers

🔹 @mattdesl has done art drops on @artblocks_io and @onhicetnunc
🔹 Subscapes - floor price is around 7.5 $ETH
🔹 Interesting that Matt dropped Subscapes on Art Blocks but also a companion piece on Hic Et Nunc (HEN)

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc 🔹 Companion piece on HEN is not a still but an animation
🔹 Uses the same algorithm but comes in a different colour scheme
🔹 Dropped as a multi-edition piece

Subscapes #327

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc 🔹 Have not seen this before - usually artists try to segment the drops on each platform
🔹 Matt chopped up his works into easily identifiable series on different platforms
🔹 Audience can see different styles of work in different channels

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc Subscapes #398

🔸 Pencil style
🔸 Patchwork trait
🔸 Bright background typical of the pencil style

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc 🔹 Matt is chain-agnostic - rare because most developers are maximalist and very tribal
🔹 As crypto matures, a lot of low-level concerns are abstracted away
🔹 Developers don't need to know all the stuff - will use it like any other tools

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc A still of RANGES02, from Hic Et Nunc platform

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc Kjetil Golid

🔹 An Art Blocks OG - done multiple drops before
🔹 @kGolid's Archetype drop was one of the earliest and most popular collections
🔹 Has the quintessential generative art look
🔹 This interlocking modules style has become his signature styles

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Archetype #236

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid 🔹 One of his collections - Paper Armada - is dropped in the middle of an NFT bear market
🔹 Couldn't sell for weeks
🔹 Even the most popular generative artist experience the peaks and troughs of the NFT market
🔹 Now Paper Armada is one of the hottest things in the space

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Paper Armada #290

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid 🔹 Most interesting work is Dual
🔹 Name refers to the struggle between a preset discrete system and a continuous ruleset that distorts the original restrictions with noise
🔹 It's in works like these where tension is felt that give rise to his strongest work

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Dual

🔸 Dual is a 1/1 drop
🔸 While the algorithm generates the output, eventually it is the artist who selects it

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Two ways to present generative art:

Artist's curation
🔹 The outputs from the algorithm comes out, the artist selects the best and presents it

Collected curation
🔹 There is just an algorithm and it prints out the output without any curation process

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Archetype #19

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid Manolo Gamboa Naon

🔹 Not into collectible drop mechanic that other generative artists do
🔹 Does all his creation using an algorithm, curates and puts them up for sale
🔹 Audience only sees a small subset of the infinite variety of outputs from the algorithm

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid CUDA

🔸 Like Wassily Kandisnky's art, this piece uses colours and geometry
🔸 Only has circles and triangles
🔸 Has the feel of Sonia and Robert Delaunay

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid 🔹 The artist has a strong say in dictating the boundaries of works produced by the algo
🔹 A lot of his styles are strikingly similar to other signature styles known by modern and contemporary artists from the 21st century
🔹 E.g. Wassily Kandisnky, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ernst

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid bbccclll

🔸 Wassily Kandisnky has an obvious influence on his art
🔸 Both artists has the same play on geometrical shapes and colours

" All of the time, when I come and create, the most beautiful parts of the work are born from the errors."

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid 🔹 This is talked about in the seminal article by Jason Bailey from @artnome
🔹 Here: artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/…
🔹 Sobering that with the advancement of AI, and enough computing power, we can simulate the mechanics of anyone in art history

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid @artnome LLLLPP

"After a certain point, I believe that the maturity of my style was formed by making small errors because I was discovering as I went along. From these errors, I take an idea and it stays. I learn how to manipulate from these errors."

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid @artnome 🔹 On-chain generative art is so successful because it cannot be done on any medium except in blockchain
🔹 In the traditional art world, the art that pushes boundaries are historically vindicated as the most important
🔹 Seems to be happening in generative art space right now

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid @artnome PPCCCC

"The error is central to the work of generative artists apart from the rules, and the rules become text that converts into an image. It is impossible to have what you imagine become what you see. The beginning is errors, errors, errors, errors. They are beautiful errors."

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid @artnome Links

Podcast on Shvembldr - Ep 15: floor-is-rising.captivate.fm/episode/mattde…
Podcast on Kjetil Golid - Ep 16: floor-is-rising.captivate.fm/episode/kjetil
Podcast on Manolo Gamboa Naon - Ep 17: floor-is-rising.captivate.fm/episode/manolo

@FloorisRising @kaifuku_kizu @SabretoothSG @mattdesl @artblocks_io @onhicetnunc @kGolid @artnome Substack article: thereadingape.substack.com/p/floor-is-ris…

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