Generative Art
Alexis André - 24 Heures
Alexis André, also known as MacTuitui, is an artist and researcher whose primary focus is using generative methods to reshape the future of entertainment. His practice is deeply rooted in processing and interactive art, leading him to explore the intersection of art and technology. 24 Heures is a collection of generative NFTs commissioned by a mystery patron and released with Art Blocks. Described by the André as: "A track. Some vehicles. An endless chase for lovers of loops," the series emphasizes the transient nature of time in art. The only way to get a 24H token was to be gifted one from the Mystery Patron that commissioned the piece.
Alexis André - Friendship Bracelets
Friendship Bracelets is a collaborative project by Alexis André and Erick Calderon (the founder of Art Blocks and digital artist known as Snowfro). Conceptualized by Erick and aesthetically and programmatically designed by Alexis, this series is meant to be a "thank you" to the NFT community, specifically that which surrounds Art Blocks. Anyone with an Art Blocks piece in their wallet at the time of snapshot was eligible to claim two free Friendship Bracelet mints (one piece was intended to be kept by those who minted it, and one was intended for the recipient to gift to someone else). Each NFT includes instructions to make the pictured bracelet. The Friendship Bracelets collection was a true team effort, with each member of the Art Blocks team designing and naming their own color palette.
Aranda\Lasch - Enlace
Aranda\Lasch makes objects, installations and buildings through a deep investigation of culture, materials, and algorithmic processes. The studio is led by Benjamin Aranda, Joaquin Bonifaz, and Chris Lasch, and has produced work that is part of the permanent collections of the MOMA and The Art Institute of Chicago, among other institutions. Dedicated to education, Benjamin Aranda teaches at The Cooper Union in New York City and Chris Lasch is president of The School of Architecture (TSOA) in Arizona. Created for Bright Moments Paris, Enlace combines digital art with traditional cane weaving to create physical objects from generative outputs. Each digital token provides instructions to craft a unique chair or woven canvas by Maison Louis Drucker. The term "Enlace" denotes intertwining in English and an embrace in French, emphasizing the project's aim to unite algorithmic code with the timeless human craft of weaving. Visually expressed through the format of the weaving draft, Enlace reduces its visual language, offering minimal instructions for creating woven pieces.
Kim Asendorf - X0X
Commissioned by Tribute Labs and curated by XX DAO, the X0X series is a nod to the iconic X0X sequencers and drum machines of the '80s.
Loren Bednar - Kaleidoscope
Produced for NFT Art Berlin, the Kaleidoscope series is a psychedelic array of interlacing lines and constantly folding patterns. Giving the appearance of endlessly shifting lenticular prints or (as the name suggests) constantly rotating kaleidoscopes, each piece mesmerizes with its fluidity.
Beervangeer - The Field
Beervangeer is an interactive media artist specializing in biofeedback art. He navigates between experimental art projects and applied art in healthcare. Using biofeedback and physiological data, he creates modern rituals that leverage generative art to explore the human unconscious. The Field is a generative series inspired by machine learning and image synthesis, exploring latent spaces as extensions of our collective unconscious. It begins with The Generator, a 64x64 noise matrix created from hundreds of past artworks, serving as the foundation for a multidimensional space of color and motion. This work reflects the cyclical nature of creation and destruction, evolving from noise to solid structure. It visualizes these forces through unique positions and color filters, combining intentional settings and random inputs to embody a universal balance between opposing elements.
Jimena Buena Vida - Epiphanies
Jimena Buena Vida is a digital artist known for her generative art series. She merges her engineering and computer science background with her passion for Modernist art, resulting in a blend of colorful simplicity and technological geometric abstraction. Created for Bright Moments New York, Epiphanies is a generative art collection inspired by the post-pandemic world and the idea of using art to find clarity and joy while embracing the unknown.
Darien Brito - Pigments
Darien Brito is an audiovisual artist and self-taught creative coder. Trained with a musical background, he developed a strong interest in algorithms, computer graphics, micro-sound, generative art and complex systems. Driven by a pragmatic approach and focusing on strong sensorial experiences, he has created work in a wide array of formats: from music for solo instruments, orchestra, electronics, theatre, film, opera and dance, to visual effects, interactive installations, live audiovisual performances and digital art. Pigments is a collection of generative NFTs that was minted in a series of 1,024 items on ArtBlocks. It is an exploration of colour and spatial distortion. Each instance is an abstract representation aimed at evoking a micro or macro-environment; from unknown substances, or oil in a canvas, to nebular formations. The pieces are animated, and meant to be experienced live. Each piece can run endlessly, with infinite output.
Darien Brito - Metamorphosis I
Metamorphosis I (M1) is a landscape that endlessly translates, scales, and rotates its elements over time. The animation is built with the concept of a perfect loop, creating a continuous and fluid motion without a noticeable beginning or end. M1 is also a visualizer of Ethereum network traffic. You can enable this mode via the parameters. When active, blocks will move faster if traffic is low, and slower when the network is busier.
Sebastian Brocher - Fluiroso
Sebastián Brocher is an entrepreneur, consultant, and artist. Drawing inspiration from the intricacies of nature and the physics theories that model it, Fluiroso (derived from "Fluidos Ruidosos") explores the discipline of Fluid Dynamics. The resulting animation renders a delicate dance of brush strokes. Once the animation pauses to spotlight the artwork, viewers can engage with the piece and press 'p' to restart the movement. While many pieces continually evolve, others settle into a graceful equilibrium.
Daniel Calderon Arenas - Marfa Yucca
Daniel Calderon is a visual artist and educator. With a focus on generative art since 2017, Daniel's work delves into various subjects, encompassing language, meaning, and the natural world. Marfa Yucca is a generative series inspired by the slow growing yucca in the Chihuahuan desert and Donald Judd's 100 Untitled works, originally made in the 1980s, at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. Judd’s iconic installation —an example of Minimalism in contemporary art— consists of 100 small aluminum boxes. Despite their identical dimensions, each box is uniquely configured, with variations in the internal divisions and surfaces, creating a subtle yet profound dialogue between uniformity and variation, much like generative art itself.
Cai Guo Qiang - Your Daytime Fireworks
Cai Guo-Qiang is a renowned contemporary artist best known for his innovative use of gunpowder in art, creating explosive installations and drawings that explore themes of history, culture, and the human experience. Inspired by political movements such as the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the teachings of Mao Zedong, his unique approach blends traditional Chinese aesthetics with modern techniques, reflecting his interest in bridging Eastern and Western cultures. Guo-Qiang has worked in a wide variety of mediums, from painting, installation, video art, and performance art, to new technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), NFTs, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. He has exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, and his works are held in prestigious collections globally. Your Daytime Fireworks is the third collaboration between Cai Guo-Qiang and TRLab. The project invited people to participate in Cai's world of daytime fireworks by transforming collectors into artists, requiring them to navigate daily factors such as weather conditions, local regulations, and minimum safety distances – just as the artist does – before ‘igniting’ their NFT to reveal a new artwork. The project ran for 90 days, with 14 firework variants across 12 countries. Collectors had to choose their launch days carefully, drawing from Cai’s guidance as well as the TRLab community of fellow participants.
Alejandro Campos - Fantasía
Alejandro Campos is a creative coder and lecturer at Delft University of Technology, specializing in modern architecture and its colonial influences. His generative artworks blend art history, critical theory, classical music, architecture, and technology with a playful aesthetic. Alejandro is also a practicing architect and co-founder of arqtistic.com, an architecture office in Spain. Inspired by Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), Fantasía is a live-coded generative project that combines infinite, AI-generated classical music with real-time, dynamic visuals. Using various open-source tools, it creates a unique experience where the music and accompanying abstract animations continuously evolve together.
Anna Carreras - Brava
Anna Carreras is a digital artist whose work focuses on the use of generative algorithms, creative code and interactive technology as a means of communication and experience generation. Created for Bright Moments Paris, the Brava collection explores the theme of fragility across code, algorithms, technology, and human experiences. It visually demonstrates how small changes in algorithms and technology can dramatically alter the shapes and compositions of the artwork. This dynamic representation mirrors the exhilarating yet vulnerable experience of diving into open water.
Anna Carreras - Trossets
Trossets explores diversity through a system that combines twelve construction blocks to generate endless, unique patterns. Inspired by Truchet tiles, it uses Mediterranean colors to create intricate designs. To support marine conservation and refugee aid, 10% of profits went to Marilles Foundation and 15% to OpenArms.
Stefano Contiero - Infinito
Stefano Contiero is a former tech professional turned self-taught generative and mixed-media artist. Born to an Italian father and Dominican mother, he grew up navigating two cultures, which shaped his unique perspective. His work features intricate geometric patterns and detailed compositions. Produced for NFT ART CDMX, Infinito is a reflection on time, space, and self-existence. The artworks are characterized by their complex geometric patterns and dynamic, flowing forms, emphasizing the theme of boundless continuity.
Jeff Davis - Culmination
An art professor for twenty years, Jeff Davis is a generative artist and a strategic advisor at ArtBlocks. He studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but was always interested in math and technology, and eventually started to use design software to explore structures and colors to create digital art. Since then, he's been inspired by the use of technology for creative expression, building generative systems that explore form and color within specified parameters. Referencing elements from all seven of Davis' past projects created for Bright Moments, Culmination seeks to express the impact of this journey in a single, cohesive collection. It was produced for Bright Moments Paris and incorporates styles from previous works, including LED-like fills, gradients, and print-inspired elements that slowly animate over time.
Jeff Davis - LED
LED is a series of 100 generative NFTs produced for Bright Moments Tokyo. The series explores the range of color possibilities in projected light by breaking each hue down into its individual red, green, and blue components. The project demonstrates how the primary colors of light mix with one another and leans into other interesting optical effects. Davis took inspiration from the inner workings of digital displays and how they utilize RGB light technology. They also very obviously reference the Physichromie paintings by Carlos Cruz-Diez and Kineticism in general.
Matt DesLauriers - Subscapes
Matt DesLauriers's practice primarily focuses on code, software, and generative processes. He is an active contributor to open source software, building tools and libraries to support creative coding and generative art workflows. His generative art has entered the permanent collection of LACMA. Subscapes was created with an algorithm that draws the impression of a landscape from a multitude of possibilities. The unique seed from each token drives the parametric assortment of lines, colors, and forms into a constructed composition.
Harm van den Dorpel - Venster
Van den Dorpel is considered a key figure in Post-Internet art, he was an early explorer of Web3, and he is the co-founder of blockchain-based art marketplace left.gallery. He makes both digital and physical artworks that are informed by feedback loops and the design of algorithmic systems. Venster is a generative artwork (from a series of 100 animated SVG compositions) that was first released during Bright Moments Paris. The aesthetic of this abstract project is shaped by the limitations inherent in smart contract programming.
Emily Edelman - Agar
Emily Edelman is a generative artist and designer. Educated at RISD and drawing on a background in typography and the design of physical spaces, her work makes use of classic grid systems in new ways, pushing the definition of communication and text as art object. Created for Bright Moments New York, Agar is a generative art project inspired by abstract expressionism, pixel art, and graphic design grid rules. It uses 100 unique color palettes to animate simple shapes within a pixel grid, exploring how color and form can evolve. Named after a substance used to grow microorganisms, Agar envisions digital life forms evolving from basic geometric shapes, inviting viewers to imagine new forms of digital art and life.
Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr - Asemica
Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr are each individual artists, but their shared love of language and alphabets brought them together to produce Asemica. Asemica is a generative algorithm that creates asemic typographic compositions using abstract shapes derived from English letters and symbols. It generates characters and typographic layouts based on aesthetic rules, focusing on visual form rather than legibility. In some compositions, a single character is featured. In others, characters string together to form words and sentences, which the algorithm shapes into layouts.
Eko33 - Terra Incognita
Jean-Jacques Duclaux, known as Eko33, has been a key figure in generative art since 1999. Merging traditional methods with digital innovation, his work examines human biases, cognition, and environmental themes through algorithmically generated colors and patterns. Influenced by mid-century design and his background in sociology and psychology, Duclaux focuses on blending technology with cognitive exploration. The Terra Incognita series merges hand-coded algorithms with AI aesthetics, blending influences from folklore, surrealism, and abstract art. It invites viewers to set aside biases and explore a new realm of objectivity, using algorithmically retrieved colors to comment on environmental fragility. The artwork combines mathematical precision with vibrant chaos, offering a deep, introspective experience.
Eko33 - Untitled
The Untitled series is a collection of generative artworks that explore abstract landscapes. Utilizing algorithmic processes and a 3D engine, these pieces transform data into intricate, digitally rendered works that mimic the visual impact of tactile sculptures. The colorful hatches resemble delicate embroidery suspended in white shadow boxes.
Herbert W Franke - Math Art (1980-1995)
Herbert W. Franke was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1951. Renowned as a leading post-war German-language science fiction writer and a pioneer of algorithmic art, Franke blended scientific rationality with artistic creativity. He focused on creating visually compelling structures through computer programs and explored rational aesthetics in his groundbreaking work. Math Art (1980-1995) is the first NFT collection by Herbert W. Franke. It is drawn from his iconic 80s series Math Art, in which a mathematical investigation is translated into visual art, producing a stunning variety of forms that is strikingly reminiscent of Pop Art.
Eric de Giuli - Calian
Eric De Giuli is a theoretical physicist and generative artist interested in the emergence of complexity in the universe, which he explores at the intersection of art and science. Calian is an infinitely zoomable generative series that explores lifelike behavior, merging natural and digital forms in a dynamic environment. It examines the essence of life by prompting users to reconsider agency and identity beyond traditional biology, using research on the origins of life to create complex, persistent systems. The project invites interaction, with each user's actions subtly influencing the ecosystem. Calian continues themes from previous works, such as ambiguity in creation and the intersection of organic and digital forms.
Martin Grasser - a temporary arrangement of material
Martin Grasser is an artist and designer based in the Bay Area. He works across corporate design, fine art and type design—exploring systems, abstraction, and translation. Created for Bright Moments Paris, a temporary arrangement of material is a project about art-making and the space in between digital and analog. During the event, Grasser had set up a station with colored construction paper, glue and scissors. When the generative algorithm produced an output, he would follow those instructions from the digital image to create a corresponding physical collage.
Vera Molnar & Martin Grasser - Themes and Variations
Vera Molnár was a pioneering digital artist and one of the early adopters of algorithmic art. Born in Budapest in 1924, she is renowned for her abstract geometric compositions that merge art with computer programming. Molnár’s work explores the intersections of randomness and order, often employing algorithms to generate intricate, visually compelling patterns. Throughout her career, she has been a key figure in the evolution of computer art, contributing significantly to the field with her innovative approach and foundational techniques. Produced in collaboration with Martin Grasser, Themes and Variations is Molnár's first (and only) on-chain generative art project, and is her personal reflection on her decades of algorithmic art practice in the midst of the NFT boom. This series showcases 500 unique artworks that explore abstract compositions using the letters N, F, and T. Embracing disorder, Molnár programmed her algorithm to allow the machine to challenge her rules and uncover new creative possibilities. The project’s title echoes the musical variations she still feels connected to, despite having stopped playing the piano at 15.
Martin Grasser - Squares
Squares utilizes the shape of a square as a unit of construction, combining and overlapping them at various scales to create interplays of color, structure, and atmosphere.
Kjetil Golid - Monument
Monument was inspired by the aesthetic of Brutalism, as shapes ascend like totems of concrete architecture. “Flawed, repetitive patterns have always been an interesting aesthetic to me, and where else does one find it more prominently than along the vertical facades of high-rise buildings?” asks Golid. The artist is interested in the pattern and structure of these buildings and the way in which these patterns are disrupted by the presence of people. For example, the way in which an open window or a closed curtain interrupts the architectural uniformity of a modernist high-rise building.
Andreas Gysin - Descent
Created for Bright Moments Paris, Descent uses characters from code page 437 (the character set from the original IBM PC) to visually represent depth. The piece guides viewers on an endless journey along a column where characters transform from their original meanings into abstract shapes and structures.
Han & Nicolas Daniel - AlgoRhythms
Han is a generative artist. Notably, he created the pioneering 3D generative series CryptoCubes, exploring the symbolic potential of cubes in the metaverse. Saglam's work demonstrates a deep engagement with technology and a passion for experimental, interactive experiences. Nicolas Daniel uses code to create dynamic, conceptual pieces. His decade-long journey, rooted in themes of color and geometry, began as a web developer in 2013. He eventually expanded his practice to include VJ performances, projections, and immersive VR and AR experiences. Together, they created AlgoRhythms, a collection of generative audio-visual data sculptures inspired by music boxes. Each piece has its own color scheme and melody, drawn from 28 different musical scales from different cultures.
Kaleb Johnston - Grid
Kaleb Johnston is a photographer and generative artist fascinated with the idea of bridging the gap between AI and humans by simulating the cognitive abilities of the human brain. Grids is a generative art collection by Johnston, inspired by city grid patterns and the organized chaos of streets. Limited to just 256 pieces, the collection explores the connection between neural activity and code, reflecting how both operate without conscious guidance. Each artwork represents a populous grid, combining thousands of agents to create a sense of organized chaos, echoing the complexity of our neural pathways.
Matt Kane - Multitudes
human heart beats is part of Kane's Multitudes series, which is comprised of algorithmically manipulated versions of Kane's earlier Anons works. Inspired by his previous practice of painting on vintage black and white photos, Anons digitized this technique using generative art studio software that Kane developed. Multitudes takes this exploration of identity one step further, by creating families of unique works all sprung from the same lineage.
Ben Kovach - Edifice
Ben Kovach is a visual artist who creates generative algorithmic art with a naturalist aesthetic. Often inspired by music and physical art-making processes like printing and quilt making, Kovach's work has a textured, tactile appearance. Edifice is a series of NFTs, each depicting different massive, deteriorating structures set on unusual terrain. It is an exploration of buildings being conceptualized, constructed, and eroded away under a wide variety of conditions. The outputs range from minimal, large color blocks to intricate, textured shapes, with each image progressively built in front of the viewer.
Dave Krugman - Drip Drop
Drip Drop is a collection of 1,111 unique photography NFTs inspired by generative art. This series captures the beauty of rain on Times Square puddles, blending nature with urban elements. Each piece reveals patterns and color spectrums from billboards, reflecting the intersection of nature and civilization. Drip Drop is a collaboration between Dave Krugman and Transient Labs. The team built a custom machine vision algorithm that sorts and batches Drips based on their emergent rarities.
Jorge Ledezma - Brise Soleil
Jorge Ledezma is a Panamanian artist exploring humanity's frontiers amid advancing technology. Initially trained in architecture, his work addresses universal themes like love, memory, and death, and revolves around the concept of technological singularity and the question of how humanity will navigate a world increasingly shaped by technology. The generative series Brise Soleil was inspired by a walk in Marbella, Panama City, where Ledezma was captivated by a building's sunshade. This experience led him to explore the idea that reality can be understood through codes and patterns. He created an algorithmic reinterpretation of the sunshade, featuring four blocks that appear with varying probabilities. The vertical block appears most frequently, influenced by the arrangement of adjacent blocks.
Jan Robert Leegte - JPEG
In the JPEG series, Leegt explores the function and concept of image compression, which has shaped the internet since the 90s, with JPEG becoming the standard for online photography. While this process has enabled the internet's evolution, it leaves a visual trace. Leegt programmatically creates images that embody compression in a minimal yet vibrant way, using generated color fields to activate the compressing algorithm as a nod to Abstract Expressionism. This approach is termed "Compressionism," where emotions are expressed purely through code, making the JPEG not just a depiction but the image itself.
Jan Robert Leegte - Selection
The project by Leegte is a fully on-chain generated collection of selection areas, the familiar marching ants conceived by Bill Atkinson which have become such a ubiquitous part of interface culture.
Zach Lieberman - Cone Gradient Study
Zach Lieberman is an artist and educator specializing in creating artwork through code. His work emphasizes experimental drawing and animation tools, as well as interactive environments that encourage participants to engage as performers. Lieberman's primary focus is exploring how computation can serve as a medium for poetry. Cone Gradient Study is a series of computational artworks that delve into the interplay of graphical form, gradients, color, and light simulation. The work begins with the concept that each pixel's color derives from a few defined points of hue, intensity, and direction, similar to mixing light sources. Lieberman then rigorously tests his algorithm, pushing the boundaries to reveal its natural emergent properties and unexpected moments of surprise.
Rich Lord - Geometry Runners
Richard Lord is an animator and designer known for his work on games like Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead at Valve Corporation. He is interested in world building and artificial life, and his art often features organic-like organisms that flow harmoniously, creating impressive real life animations of familiar yet unique lifeforms. Geometry Runners is a generative series that depicts cartoons of geometrical shapes in an endless "race for their lives". Each shape moves in its own unique way, and sports its own team colors. Inspired by the work of Karl Sims and Theo Jansen, Lord strove to make creatures that invoke empathy in what feels like a living system.
William Mapan - Distance
William Mapan is a digital artist who blends his software development background with a passion for pigment, light, and texture. He spent a decade as a creative developer before exploring art more seriously after discovering NFTs in 2018. Mapan’s abstract digital paintings are celebrated for their unique interplay of color and texture, evoking emotions akin to traditional materials. Distance is a series of computational artworks created by Mapan as a part of LACMA'S Art’s Remembrance of Things Future initiative, in which contemporary artists experimenting with blockchain technology are invited to respond to works in the museum. Distance is Mapan’s homage to Paul Klee’s iconic 1914 watercolor, In the Kairouan Style, Transposed in a Moderate Way, in LACMA’s encyclopedic collection. It is an exploration of color, form and the ability of code to give rise to painterly, organic textures.
Laya Mathikshara and Santiago - Cerebellum
Laya Mathikshara is a digital artist who currently attends high school. Mathikshara’s creative expression began in traditional art forms, however she began to explore creative coding during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to her work in generative art, she uses 3D and virtual reality programming to explore the interdisciplinary intersection of art, technology, and science. Santiago Grau is a digital artist who makes work that is both introspective and exploratory. He uses synthetic code languages as his only form of creation, and regards it as a sort of transhumanist poetry, finding the common ground between man and machine. Mathikshara had admired Santiago’s work on Instagram for a while before reaching out to him on that platform, ultimately leading to their unique collaboration. Cerebellum is an evolving art piece that embodies the concept of human optimization throughout life stages—survival, academic success, career growth, and health. It features a reinforcement learning agent that explores a browser-based environment, learning to maximize positive rewards while avoiding negatives. Initially exhibiting random motion, the agent becomes more purposeful as it learns from experience. The environment includes walls that challenge its navigation, symbolizing the complexity of decision-making. Ultimately, Cerebellum offers a glimpse into the AI learning process, celebrating the journey of optimization and understanding.
Maya Man - Notes
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. Created for Bright Moments Paris, Notes is a generative collection that dives into the vivid online universe of perfume descriptions. The artist was fascinated by consumers' inability to sample scents through phones or computers, and therefore the perfumes’ retailers rely on detailed descriptions to communicate what a product smells like and persuade potential customers online. Notes requests its audience to use their scent imagination.
Kelly Milligan & Amber Vittoria - Balance
Kelly Milligan is a generative artist and coder who creates algorithmic digital artwork, including static prints and interactive browser pieces, focusing on organic textures and vibrant color palettes. His work explores the interplay between technology and algorithmic unpredictability. Amber Vittoria is an artist, poet, and author. Through ribbons of color and poetry, her work aims to represent nuances of womanhood, emotion, and beauty. Together, they created Balance, a generative series that nods to the ever-changing composition of harmony by combining Milligan's skill for capturing movement through code and Vittoria's signature work with color. Even though the composition is set upon mint, the collector can temporarily change the composition of the piece, further speaking to the idea of balance constantly moving.
Thomas Noya - THX-1
Thomas Noya's practice is rooted in the digital realm, exploring themes of nostalgia, color, and texture through a lens of meticulous detail and conceptual rigor. Noya created the works in the THX-1 series using a glitching algorithm that processes images generated with StyleGAN2 and StyleGAN3 models trained on personal datasets. This results in unique and unpredictable artworks that evoke a sense of nostalgia for the stylistic and technological hallmarks of Noya's upbringing in the 90s.
Thomas Noya - Desde Lejos
The Desde Lejos series of generative digital paintings explore the realms of memory and perception. Drawing inspiration from painters Armando Reverón and Clyfford Still, Desde Lejos represents Noya's yearning to reconnect with and honor his formative years spent in Montalbán, a small rural town in Carabobo, Venezuela. These fragmented landscapes are Noya's interpretation of the prompt “On-chain, Off-line” for the Bright Moments Buenos Aires collection.
p1xelfool - lūmen
p1xelfool is an anonymous artist who gained fame in 2021 for his code-based art, using Processing to create pixelated 2D animations of 3D systems. His work explores digital dimensions and the perception of time and space. He also supports Brazilian digital artists through initiatives like BRG.exe. Produced for NFT ART CDMX, lūmen is a generative series that combines low-resolution, pixelated graphics with dynamic, evolving animations. Each piece in this collection explores abstract, geometric forms and the interplay of light and shadow.
Monica Rizzoli - Underwater
Created for NFT ART CDMX, Underwater is a collection of generative illustrations showcasing seven hypothetical species as fictive descendants of ancient Mexican plants in Mexico City's underground aquifer. Inspired by medieval herbarium illustrations, particularly the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, the artist used the superformula and space colonization algorithms to create tepal-like forms with unique patterns.
Tabor Robak - Colorspace
Tabor Robak is an American digital artist based in Paris, known for his multi-channel video installations and generative artworks. He uses the visual language of video games, advertising, and animated films to explore societal perceptions of the digital and real. His work addresses the tension between human nature and technology, tackling themes like late capitalism, mass media, and privacy. Utilizing software such as Unity, Adobe After Effects, and Cinema 4D, he creates installations and animations, often incorporating innovative technology like transparent monitors and custom-built PCs. Colorspace is a tribute to creating on the computer - it is a procedurally generated animation created in real-time using programmed brushes and effects, inspired by classic screensavers and user interface elements. The piece contrasts the look of vintage software like MacPaint with the full-color capabilities of modern gaming computers, capturing the joy of new software, late-night coding intensity, and the frustration of losing work to crashes.
Luke Shannon - Lightbreak
Luke Shannon is an artist specializing in physical generative art techniques such as embroidery, CNC machining, and glass blowing. His work explores themes of performance, self, and creativity within constraints. Produced for Bright Moments Paris, Lightbreak is an exploration of light reflection and refraction. The algorithm used allows for an extension beyond the typical behaviors of light, including allowing light to reflect off itself, with each piece mapping out different outcomes. The works are reactive, and respond to curser interaction.
John F. Simon Jr - Every Icon
John F. Simon Jr. is a multimedia artist and software art pioneer. With degrees in Fine Art, Geology, Planetary Science, and Computer Art, he creates diverse works across various media, including plotter drawings, sculptures, and web-based systems. His art has been featured in major museums like MoMA, the Guggenheim, and LACMA, and his notable piece Every Icon was in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Simon also collaborated with Björk on an app for her album Biophilia. With over 25 years in the field, he remains an influential figure in contemporary art. Originally programmed and initiated in 1997, Every Icon is a piece of conceptual art translated into a software application. It consists of a 32 x 32 square grid where every square can be colored black or white. Every Icon starts with an image in which every square is white and progresses through combinations of black and white squares until every square is black. The piece will show every possible image. Although it takes only 1.36 years to display all of the variations along the first line, it takes an exponentially longer 5.85 billion years to complete the second line. The piece reflects on technology's potential and the limits of human perception. The Every Icon NFT series is a reimagining of this seminal work, letting collectors participate in the creation process. After each NFT was minted, the collector could choose a starting image by exploring randomly generated combinations of icon fragments, fill patterns, and noise.
Marcel Schwittlick - Composition no. 94
Marcel Schwittlick blends digital and physical art using drawing machines and algorithms. His generative and plotter art transforms digital cursor-lines into detailed, tangible pieces that explore chance and intention. With a background in computer science and art, he also includes an auditory dimension through the distinctive sounds produced by the plotting machines during the creation process. Composition no.94 is inspired by the abstract shapes found in Vera Molnar’s “8 carriages.” Each NFT in the series represents an original plotter drawing, to be claimed by the token holder. Upon resale on the secondary market, the original drawing shall be shipped to the new owner.
Snowfro - Chromie Squiggle
"Simple and easily identifiable, each squiggle embodies the soul of the Art Blocks platform. Consider each my personal signature as an artist, developer, and tinkerer." Erick Calderon, better known as Snowfro, is an entrepreneur, artist, and the founder of Art Blocks, a platform for generative art on the Ethereum blockchain. He spent the first 18 years of his career operating a boutique ceramic tile company, and in his early 30s began developing artistic projects, creating works in multiple media including video projections, computer code, 3D printing, and sculpture. In 2020, he founded Art Blocks and released his own artwork, Chromie Squiggle, an algorithmic edition of 10,000 NFTs, as the first project on the Art Blocks platform. The Chromie Squiggle was created as a demonstration of the vast possibilities of long form on-chain generative art. Each Chromie Squiggle has one of six "types": Standard, Slinky, Fuzzy, Ribbed, Bold, and Pipe. Each is distinct, with Standard being the most common and Pipe being the rarest. Other "traits" or characteristics that collectors of Chromie Squiggles seek include "Color Spread", which determines how many colors are visible on a Squiggle at one time, and its shape (some being more balanced and others more misshapen). Snowfro’s Chromie Squiggle has come to symbolize the tight-knit community that has sprung up around a shared passion for collecting generative art. In the summer of 2023, the final Chromie Squiggle was minted and gifted to the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Snowfro - 100 Untitled Spaces
100 Untitled Spaces merges color and minimalist architecture, creating a meditative virtual room where each space reveals unique moments through movement and shadows. Inspired by Johannes Itten, Robert Irwin, and Luis Barragán, this project, developed with Calderon's architect wife Mara, features algorithmically generated compositions that showcase simple canvases in varying minimalist settings. Each of the 100 spaces is unique but interconnected, reflecting their shared aesthetic and the influence of their real and imagined environments.
Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez - siempre en mí, siempre en ti
siempre en mi, siempre en ti is a generative art series featured in the reGEN charity auction to support Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. This work, created by the artist to reflect personal experiences with Alzheimer's, explores the emotional impact of the illness through dynamically shifting faces and geometric patterns. It symbolizes the fleeting nature of memory and the profound connection between individuals.
Bjorn Staal - Immaterial
Bjørn Staal, also known as nonfigurativ, is an artist and programmer who investigates the interplay between digital systems and human perception. With over a decade in design and software development, he co-founded Void, a studio known for its innovative interactive installations. Since leaving Void in 2023, Staal has focused on exploring how dynamic systems enhance our understanding of humanity in a world increasingly driven by algorithms. Immaterial is a generative series that merges synthetic biology and botany through algorithms inspired by natural systems. Originally influenced by the underlying structure of fungi gills, the series explores a wide range of formations and life forms, referencing possible futures where digital and organic systems merge. Each piece reflects the growth process, revealing how simple rules generate complex forms.
Jen Stark - Vortex
Jen Stark is known for her repetitive, intricate sculptures which often resemble patterns in nature and appear as hypnotic mandala-like configurations. Although Stark is most recognized for her psychedelic and colorful paper sculptures. This series of generative vortexes adapt and evolve within the digital realm through code.
Per Kristian Stoveland - Harvest
Per Kristian Stoveland is a generative artist, programmer, and co-founder of Void Studio - an alternative design studio he co-founded in 2015. Although his background is in design, his practice has been programming since the late 2000s. Inspired by sci-fi and space exploration, The Harvest aims to evoke awe and the grandeur of the cosmos, using p5js with its 3D API to create stylized alien landscapes. Each beam’s position, color, reach, and yield are procedurally generated, creating a dynamic, cathedral-like visual experience.
Alida Sun - Stellaraum
Alida Sun is an artist and technologist who explores themes of presence, resistance, and adaptation in the age of algorithms. For over 1,400 days and counting, she has been creating new generative artworks across various mediums, including installation, sound, choreography, architecture, drawing, and light. Created for NFT Art Berlin, Stellaraum is a generative art series inspired by years of creating interactive audiovisual installations. It features playful architectural abstractions and light particles interacting in a virtual space, with elements paying homage to Robert Irwin's Light+Space installation at Kraftwerk Berlin.
Kazuhiro Tanimoto - Memories of Digital Data
Kazuhiro Tanimoto is a generative artist and materials research and development chemist. His artistic practice explores the intersection of science and art, depicting living creatures, the human mind, and life. The Memories of Digital Data series explores the fragility and beauty of digital memories through a fictional collapsed blockchain world, depicted with visuals and sound. The piece imagines abandoned blockchain nodes as remnants forming a submerged city, with deteriorated data fluttering through the sky like a wave. The sound, created from white noise, mimics rippling waves and enhances the visual experience. Influenced by personal reflections on seascapes and data loss, the artwork combines realistic and surreal elements to express a sense of nostalgia and impermanence, evolving from earlier work in GHOST IN THE CODE.
Third Vision - Miragem
Amilton L. Paglia, aka Third Vision is a product designer and generative artist using computation as a tool to explore beauty and perception. Miragem ("mirage" in Portuguese) is a generative series that explores rhythm, balance, and texture. It follows three main rules related to the orientation and distribution of groups and dashes, creating patterns that resemble sound waves or statistical data. The use of lines and dots recalls the generative art of Autoglyphs, while the textured background and fuzzy lines evoke the work of artists like Vera Molnar and Gego.
v3ga - Radiance
Julien Gachadoat (known as v3ga) is a generative artist using algorithms to explore abstract forms through monochrome geometric shapes and random operations. He develops his own tools based on simple graphic rules, merging text and code in his printed pieces. Influenced by the ’90s demo scene, Julien uses programming languages as his primary creative medium, blending the precision of code with artistic expression. Radiance explores the combination of simple line patterns structured at different scales to produce uniquely connected geometric forms. Resulting shapes can vary from minimal to organic and intricate with an underlying modulation of line spacing radiating from center.
v3ga - Umwelt
Umwelt combines a subdivision algorithm with a curved-line-drawing algorithm to create minimalist compositions by partitioning squares and filling them with curved lines defined by harmonic functions. Each software NFT offers a unique image, with additional images generated using random seed values.
Leo Villareal - Cosmic Bloom
Leo Villareal’s art deconstructs systems to understand their fundamental structures, focusing on basic elements like pixels and binary code. He creates evolving forms that combine spatial and temporal dimensions, inspired by mathematician John Conway's work with cellular automata and the Game of Life. Central to Villareal's work is the element of chance, allowing emergent behaviors within a structured environment. His goal is to explore the visual manifestation of code in light. Leo Villareal’s latest NFT collection, Cosmic Bloom, continues his Cosmologies series, following the success of Cosmic Reef on Art Blocks. Using custom live code, the collection features unique digital artworks inspired by organic, stellar, and atomic patterns. Each piece showcases intricate, constantly moving geometric forms, reflecting Villareal's expertise in using coding to create complex visual sequences.
Che-Yu Wu - Electriz
Che-Yu Wu is a multidisciplinary new media artist who, combining his artistic and engineering backgrounds, creates generative art inspired by nature, physics, and modernism, transforming these elements into interactive algorithmic pieces. Inspired by the methods scientists use to discover new particles, Electriz is a series that employs digital cloud chambers to observe traces of unidentified particles. The work's space is divided into distinct areas, each with unique physical characteristics that influence particle movement, rotation, splitting, and annihilation. This results in an unpredictable experimental system with limitless possibilities, exploring the intersections of physics, mathematics, and art.
Che-Yu Wu - Urban Contour
Urban Contour is a generative Impressionist artwork made up of fragments that reflect familiar aspects of our living environments. It weaves together individual impressions of the city to capture the collective subconscious. Through its abstract lines and structures, the piece connects personal memories, dreams, and visions of the future.
Emily Xie - Off Script
Off Script is a generative system that explores sensoriality through the subject of collage. At its core, the series uses a custom masking algorithm to cut out shapes from algorithmically produced papers, which are then arranged throughout the canvas.
Yazid - Automatism
Yazid is a technologist, creative coder, and generative artist. Automatism mimics spontaneous artistic creation using the "Sharp-E" algorithm, which produces freeform drawings with random curves and lines. Viewers are encouraged to interpret the evolving output and find their own meanings.
Florian Zumbrunn - Odysseys
Florian Zumbrunn is an artist who thrives on the unexpected outcomes of his creative process. Starting with a broad concept, he uses code and algorithms to evolve his ideas iteratively. His exploration-driven approach leads to diverse works—videos, projections, installations, paintings, and prints—that often blend digital and physical elements. Produced for Bright Moments Paris, Odysseys combines digital aesthetics with nostalgic storybook charm, creating artwork that resembles a pixelated adventure map.