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A digital image of a pink bear in a purple suit standing in a gray room in from of a television set repeating his image

Max Haiven / Wassim Alsindi

A playing card featuring a quasi-medieval drawing of a blue dragon; the text says "Nakamoto's Basilisk" and gives instructions on how the card can be played

César Escudero Andaluz

A close-up photograph of a calculating machine showing green numbers on a digital screen and emitting a long printout of digits

Casey Rodarmor / Francisco Alarcon (FAR)

A digital illustration of a cartoon cat against a starry black sky. The cat is composed of many iridiscent bubbles, some of which contain cartoon cats of their own

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A screenshot of code from the Bitcoin genesis block

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy / Rhea Myers

A computer-generated image of a branching tree, in autumnal shades

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A photograph of a room whose shelves are piled with heavy old ledgers from the eighteenth century

Francisco Alarcon (FAR)

A digital abstraction of a yellow grid, interlocking with blue and red stepwise lines, interrupted by irregular lines and warping patterns

Mathcastles

Numbered lines of code with metadata describing how an artwork with an unknown price can be purchased

Casey Reas / Sarah Friend / Sasha Stiles

A pixel drawing of a stylized eye in shades of blue, with another eye drawn over it in black

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

A softly blurred and glowing digital image evoking braided threads, folding over each other in swirling patterns