Gen Art

Farcaster channel for sharing and discussing anything generative made using code, but especially art.

Farcaster Generative Art Channel

Bright Moments

Where Art is Born. We work with generative and AI artists to produce iconic, real world experiences of their art.  /bright-moments

Λ L B E D O is a work-in-progress coded collection that explores light, material and entropy. Currently adapted for Artblocks and on-chain storage, less than 80 kB of minified code (not including three.js library) with a custom pathtracer that renders the scene in the browser.

I love the serious energy architects like @luka and @mrkswcz ++ bring to the generative art space. 

The code to do something like this is not trivial, and the skill to make good work with it isn't, either.

Computational architect. Some structure, mostly chaos. Co-founder {protocell:labs}

https://protocell.xyz/

Architect, creative coder. https://linktr.ee/mrkswcz

Art and code since 1994. https://linktr.ee/mariuswatz

Kind words Marius 🙏

We gen-architects are a small but passionate subset of the genart community.

These days it’s easier to just publish the work, many open platforms out there, but much harder to find curators or collectors with interest.

Thank you for sharing those experience.

Sometimes I feel architects go through an identity crisis every decade or so, although there is still a certain persistence of ideas in the broader profession. We are stubborn and hate changing our ways, although this is conditioned on the construction industry itself. Marc Fornes and people like him are an exception to that rule.

When I moved to NYC in 2008 I got a lot of love for how Generator.x covered architecture from the start. The scene back then was small but vibrant, it's nice to see Marc Fornes and Softlab doing well and getting commissions. 

But the identity crisis still runs deep. 🫂

I'm well aware of your plight, been following gen arch since the mid-2000's and it never had a natural home. Architecture isn't very forgiving towards pure form research, parametricism aside.

Seeing you, Jacek and people like Aranda/Lasch find a space in the NFT scene made a ton of sense. I'm not interested in whether the work is "really" art or architecture, I think that's entirely up to the maker.

But I've been around enough to plenty of architects hating. 😅