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Artists Need To Eat Too

I would have liked more time to compile this, but alas here it is, my 5 Tezos Art Collection (4.74 + gas, Ackchyually!). It took about 5 (yes, 5) minutes following the announcement of this challenge for Artists to come out in protest, apparently missing the entire point. As a counterpoint I've deliberately gone back to the earliest NFT's on Tezos, and picked out some pieces I felt were interesting/relevant, and that Artists at the time were apparently happy to list for 1 Tez or less. From the get-go, the thing that has always intrigued me the most about the art movement here is the inclusivity of it. The experimentation we've seen in 2 short years has been nothing short of wild. Does all of the work stand up? No, but some of it caught the zeitgeist of a movement that leads to places we have not yet seen. I'm here for it...

Guided hallucination 1

Exploring FASSEG and a poorly trained network. Generated as part of my early exploration into neural nes, graphic design & death metal. https://medium.com/@lgndryhappiness/neural-nets-graphic-design-and-death-metal-40d058eb65d1

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/7981

Nick Fox-Gieg - GridJoe (2016, SVG version)

GridJoe, by Nick Fox-Gieg, a continuous cellular automata piece. This is the official SVG version, released 23 March 2021.

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/11694

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Artificial emotions #3

The artwork was created by AI with StyleGan2. Generative Adversarial Network was trained on portraits of different centuries and authors. Pre-trained .pkl file by @ak92501

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/98071

cat-person #1780

Generative cat-person.

https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/166232

GELATO && COMP #61

Create random composition with sweet color palette like a gelato.

Shape, color and composition inspired by Memphis design

https://www.fxhash.xyz/gentk/FX0-191941

And For My Last Trick...

https://app.tezos.domains/domain/thisisaconceptualartwork.tez

This last one is obviously intended to be tongue-in-cheek, though not entirely. I registered the domain for the purpose of this article to make the point that NFT's have opened up new ideas for Artists to play with (domains cost 1 tez/year). And play we should! I've lost count the number of times trad-artists and anyone else with an opinion has shouted down others for their experimentation. May I politely remind you that the world is your oyster, and you should feel free to have at it!

As to the works above, I opted to go for generative works as they were catching my attention early on when I'd first collected on Tezos. Nick Fox-Gieg's 'GridJoe' is one of the first generative (SVG) works on Tezos, beaten out by Makio135's 'Magician' just days earlier.

I had previously thought NFT People to be the first PFP collection, until I unearthed the 'cat-person' collection whilst compiling NFT's for this challenge. Who knew.

The rest as they say, is history...




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