PFPs

Shezad Dawood

A digital cartoon portrait of a penguin wearing glasses, a fish-shaped fascinator, and a gray trenchcoat

LACMA

A square with a digital image showing a tangle of flowers

The Outland Review

An AI generated image of a disheveled, dumpy man standing alone in the aisle of a big store, the shelves around hi8m lined with brightly colored, indistinguishable products

Unsellable

A digital portrait of a sad frog wearing a blue masks that leaves his eyes and mouth exposed. He's holding a shield like Captain America's but only the top third of it is visible

Alan Lau

An abstract portrait of the collector Alan Lau, created from digital renderings of geometric shapes

Commentary

What used to be a photo of a woman, distorted beyond recognition

Qinwen Wang

ICA Miami

A pixelated image of a woman with close cropped dark hari and pink lipstick

J1mmy.eth

A 3D model of a milk cartoon with milk billowing up from the open mouth in big droplets

Ian Cheng

A gray face with a sly smile emerges from liquid; just below the surface, a sleeping green imp nestles against a tentacled blue shape

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