A split screen, with a woman in glasses on the right aiming her eyes toward the abstract design on the left
Criticism

The Hirsch Truth: Episode 7

by Ann Hirsch

The original NFT critic in the vlogosphere tackles generative art in her latest episode. Starting with Art Blocks, the platform that popularized large-scale generative NFT collections, Ann Hirsch looks at two projects that incorporate the older arts of writing and weaving, respectively, into creative coding. She also considers independent projects by Kim Asendorf and dribnet that explore the possibilities of interactive generative art on the blockchain, as well as the stunningly beautiful digital imagery of Eric Hu’s Monarchs.

Related Stories

A pair of hats, one blue and one gray, with the words New Peace embroidered in the same color as the fabric
Criticism

True Religion

To sell spirituality as a lifestyle brand, Timur Si-Qin draws on wellness culture, crypto, and other ways to find meaning when old values fall short.

True Religion
An abstract digital image where fields of orange and black pixels collide and warp
Criticism

Perpetual Motion

Kim Asendorf’s work navigates the paradox of the permanent art object and the dynamic digital medium

Perpetual Motion
A schematic drawing of the blockchain with a label indicating that art happens on it
Criticism

Conceptualism Rehashed

Rhea Myers’s puckish and profound works adapt strategies of conceptual art to take blockchain technologies—and the rhetoric surrounding them—to their logical extremes.

Conceptualism Rehashed

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
Read more