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  "subtitle": "Protocols for an unpredictable public realm",
  "lede": "Eltono’s algorithms do not abandon the street. They formalize its central lesson: an artist can establish conditions, but the finished work emerges through contingency.",
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    "based": "French artist, born in Paris in 1975. Lives in southern France",
    "practice": "Public-space interventions, painting, sculpture, participatory protocols, and generative systems",
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    "otdh": "[17,577 · rank 72 of 308](/artists/otdh/#artist-eltono)",
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    "collector tdh": "[eltonoTDH](/artists/eltono/eltonotdh/) · dashboard"
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        "Eltono is a French artist born in Paris in 1975 who now lives in southern France. His route to on-chain generative art begins along railway lines outside Paris, where he started writing graffiti in 1989. He later studied visual art, moved to Madrid in 1999, and replaced the aerosol vocabulary of his early work with geometric forms made using brushes, acrylic paint, and masking tape. This transition was not simply stylistic. It redirected attention from the repeated name toward the circumstances of each encounter: the dimensions of a wall, its existing marks, its architectural divisions, the duration of an unauthorized action, and the behavior of people passing nearby.",
        "The artist describes public space as support, studio, and source of inspiration. Such a formulation makes context an active material. Weather, damage, removal, pedestrian response, and institutional regulation can alter what a work becomes. In a 2012 interview, Eltono rejected any hierarchy between street and gallery practice while insisting that an image made furtively outside cannot be equated with the same image comfortably reproduced in a studio. The distinction concerns conditions of production. Risk and interruption are not incidental to the street work. They participate in its form.",
        "That position explains why Eltono’s generative practice feels continuous with his public interventions. Rules offer a way to preserve uncertainty without imitating the surface appearance of graffiti. His protocols specify a field of possibilities, then yield decisions to dice, software, participants, or environmental events. The resulting compositions remain recognizably his, but authorship is distributed across a system."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "From contextual mark to operating rule",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Eltono’s mature geometric language developed through close attention to found surfaces. Javier Abarca characterizes his small contextual paintings as unusually lucid responses to their surroundings, noting their integration with architecture rather than their imposition upon it. A later ARTIUM account similarly describes works improvised from a limited visual vocabulary after the artist encounters a particular support. The wall is therefore not a neutral rectangle. It is the first instruction.",
        "Projects made for exhibition spaces transformed this contextual sensitivity into explicit procedures. In *Pubblico*, prepared for Rojo Art Space in Milan in 2009, Eltono installed groups of unique posters around the neighborhood and allowed public interaction to determine their condition and eventual presentation. In *Deambular* at ARTIUM in 2012, walking, pedestrian flow, and experiments conducted before and after the opening connected the gallery to the surrounding city. The exhibition room operated as workshop, control center, and documentary site rather than as an isolated container.",
        "These projects clarify the ethical dimension of his protocols. Eltono does not invoke chance merely to diversify visual outputs. Chance limits sovereign control. It lets the artist become, in part, a spectator of a process that he designed. A 2023 profile emphasizes his recurring interest in facilitating accidents, often through dice, while an Artsy presentation of *Modo 7 (Fluctuo)* explains that he defines rules and parameters before execution so the outcome remains unknown even to him.",
        "Participation can perform the same function. A documented 2011 project in Tokyo offered participants random choices among figures, colors, orientations, and positions, producing a collective painting through 85 individual contributions. The social encounter and the algorithmic operation are thus related forms. Both accept that a work may retain coherence without being completely predetermined."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Swing: balance inside a combinatorial field",
      "paragraphs": [
        "*Swing* brings this history into a browser-native Art Blocks project. Released through Art Blocks Factory on November 2, 2021, the collection comprises exactly 310 artworks. Its protocol uses a 3 by 2 grid, two layers, seven line types, and an empty shape. Position and rotation are selected randomly, while backgrounds, margins, paper fields, stripes, corners, and line colors introduce additional controlled variation.",
        "The outputs demonstrate how a strict framework can produce divergent visual identities. Some resemble emblems or fragments of lettering; others reduce themselves to a few directional strokes. Rectangles suggest sheets of paper, signs, windows, or pasted matter, while colored divisions recall architectural panels. The title identifies the system’s central ambition: not maximum complexity, but a calibrated rhythmic balance. Each output must carry enough asymmetry to move while retaining enough structure to hold together.",
        "The project also reframes Eltono’s earlier departure from letter-based graffiti. *Swing* sometimes appears to generate letters, yet it does so without spelling a name. Recognition remains provisional. A bent line can become a glyph, a route, an architectural edge, or an abstract gesture depending on its neighbors. The work occupies the threshold between designed sign and accidental configuration."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Andradite: protocol as accumulated geology",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Released through Art Blocks Factory on May 25, 2021, *Andradite* comprises exactly 222 artworks. It adapts Modo n.°7, one of Eltono’s wall-painting protocols, into an interactive digital drawing system. Nine basic shapes derive from points organized around a square. In the on-chain work, two layers of six shapes occupy a 2 by 3 grid with a slight offset. White accents along oblique edges introduce cuts and depth into otherwise flat, dark masses.",
        "Where *Swing* disperses movement across a bright graphic field, *Andradite* compresses it into something apparently mineral and architectural. The generated forms suggest brutalist construction, rock faces, or troglodytic spaces. Gradient backgrounds recall conventions of mineral photography, while the title refers to the sharply faceted garnet that supplied the project’s analogy. Yet these images do not imitate particular stones. They make algorithmic accumulation appear geological.",
        "The project emerged through movement among media. Eltono had used Modo n.°7 for wall paintings, drawings, wooden assemblages, and sculptures. Concrete studies made in 2020 allowed him to observe how the protocol’s shapes interacted in three dimensions before the digital series translated those observations back into a luminous plane. This circulation complicates any simple division between physical and digital practice. Code is one instrument among brushes, tape, concrete, wood, CNC equipment, and dice.",
        "His *Stylus* drawings make that continuity especially clear. Processing-generated files directed a CNC machine fitted with a stylus across a tablet screen, moving from digital instruction through mechanical execution and back to a digital image. The point was not technological novelty alone. Each translation exposed the protocol to another material interface and another opportunity for variation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "The street after software",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Eltono encountered blockchain art after years of generative mural practice. In a 2022 interview, he dated his use of generative wall protocols to 2010 and described testing rules in Processing before executing them manually with dice. He also explained why Art Blocks was consequential: it enabled a collector to commit before the work was generated, making the unknown result intrinsic to the exchange. This mechanism matched an artistic concern already present in his gallery experiments, namely how to create work whose final state remained unresolved at the point of commitment.",
        "Seen in this context, minting is less a rupture than another public procedure. The blockchain records an edition and its provenance, but the decisive aesthetic event is still the encounter between a prepared rule and an uncontrollable variable. Eltono’s long-standing refusal to reproduce street images as detached studio commodities finds an unexpected counterpart here. The on-chain work does not simulate a mural. It transfers the mural practice’s logic of bounded uncertainty.",
        "This logic also distinguishes his work from a narrow account of generative art as automated abundance. Limits are everywhere: a fixed grid, a restricted set of shapes, chosen palettes, a defined edition, and carefully weighted parameters. Constraint makes difference legible. The 310 editions of *Swing* and 222 editions of *Andradite* are not demonstrations that a machine can produce endlessly. They are finite studies in how much unpredictability a visual language can absorb without losing identity.",
        "That continuity remains active. In April 2026, Eltono completed *Modo n.º70* at Dalle du Colombier in Rennes, a mural and floor painting designed to be activated through basketball. Developed with a local under-13 girls’ team, the playable work uses a game of chance to determine actions along routes defined by geometric shapes.",
        "Eltono’s institutional history reinforces the same continuity. His projects have appeared in settings ranging from neighborhood interventions to ARTIUM. In 2008, he participated in Tate Modern’s *Street Art Walking Tour*, which placed site-specific works by five Madrid-based artists around the museum rather than inside its galleries. Gallery representation has likewise emphasized his integration of color, line, and form with architectural surroundings rather than treating the mural as a scalable signature. An Uprise Art profile summarizes the connection succinctly: his interest in generative art arose from observing how unsanctioned works evolved after installation in the street.",
        "> For Eltono, unpredictability is not noise introduced after composition. It is a collaborator invited in by the protocol.",
        "The resulting oeuvre asks where a work is actually located. It may reside on a wall, in a set of instructions, in the actions of participants, in a machine’s path, in a browser, or in the differences among hundreds of outputs. Across those locations, Eltono preserves a consistent proposition. Form becomes most alive when authorship establishes a framework, then makes room for the world to answer."
      ]
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  "body_markdown": "Eltono is a French artist born in Paris in 1975 who now lives in southern France. His route to on-chain generative art begins along railway lines outside Paris, where he started writing graffiti in 1989. He later studied visual art, moved to Madrid in 1999, and replaced the aerosol vocabulary of his early work with geometric forms made using brushes, acrylic paint, and masking tape. This transition was not simply stylistic. It redirected attention from the repeated name toward the circumstances of each encounter: the dimensions of a wall, its existing marks, its architectural divisions, the duration of an unauthorized action, and the behavior of people passing nearby.\n\nThe artist describes public space as support, studio, and source of inspiration. Such a formulation makes context an active material. Weather, damage, removal, pedestrian response, and institutional regulation can alter what a work becomes. In a 2012 interview, Eltono rejected any hierarchy between street and gallery practice while insisting that an image made furtively outside cannot be equated with the same image comfortably reproduced in a studio. The distinction concerns conditions of production. Risk and interruption are not incidental to the street work. They participate in its form.\n\nThat position explains why Eltono’s generative practice feels continuous with his public interventions. Rules offer a way to preserve uncertainty without imitating the surface appearance of graffiti. His protocols specify a field of possibilities, then yield decisions to dice, software, participants, or environmental events. The resulting compositions remain recognizably his, but authorship is distributed across a system.\n\n## From contextual mark to operating rule\n\nEltono’s mature geometric language developed through close attention to found surfaces. Javier Abarca characterizes his small contextual paintings as unusually lucid responses to their surroundings, noting their integration with architecture rather than their imposition upon it. A later ARTIUM account similarly describes works improvised from a limited visual vocabulary after the artist encounters a particular support. The wall is therefore not a neutral rectangle. It is the first instruction.\n\nProjects made for exhibition spaces transformed this contextual sensitivity into explicit procedures. In *Pubblico*, prepared for Rojo Art Space in Milan in 2009, Eltono installed groups of unique posters around the neighborhood and allowed public interaction to determine their condition and eventual presentation. In *Deambular* at ARTIUM in 2012, walking, pedestrian flow, and experiments conducted before and after the opening connected the gallery to the surrounding city. The exhibition room operated as workshop, control center, and documentary site rather than as an isolated container.\n\nThese projects clarify the ethical dimension of his protocols. Eltono does not invoke chance merely to diversify visual outputs. Chance limits sovereign control. It lets the artist become, in part, a spectator of a process that he designed. A 2023 profile emphasizes his recurring interest in facilitating accidents, often through dice, while an Artsy presentation of *Modo 7 (Fluctuo)* explains that he defines rules and parameters before execution so the outcome remains unknown even to him.\n\nParticipation can perform the same function. A documented 2011 project in Tokyo offered participants random choices among figures, colors, orientations, and positions, producing a collective painting through 85 individual contributions. The social encounter and the algorithmic operation are thus related forms. Both accept that a work may retain coherence without being completely predetermined.\n\n## Swing: balance inside a combinatorial field\n\n*Swing* brings this history into a browser-native Art Blocks project. Released through Art Blocks Factory on November 2, 2021, the collection comprises exactly 310 artworks. Its protocol uses a 3 by 2 grid, two layers, seven line types, and an empty shape. Position and rotation are selected randomly, while backgrounds, margins, paper fields, stripes, corners, and line colors introduce additional controlled variation.\n\nThe outputs demonstrate how a strict framework can produce divergent visual identities. Some resemble emblems or fragments of lettering; others reduce themselves to a few directional strokes. Rectangles suggest sheets of paper, signs, windows, or pasted matter, while colored divisions recall architectural panels. The title identifies the system’s central ambition: not maximum complexity, but a calibrated rhythmic balance. Each output must carry enough asymmetry to move while retaining enough structure to hold together.\n\nThe project also reframes Eltono’s earlier departure from letter-based graffiti. *Swing* sometimes appears to generate letters, yet it does so without spelling a name. Recognition remains provisional. A bent line can become a glyph, a route, an architectural edge, or an abstract gesture depending on its neighbors. The work occupies the threshold between designed sign and accidental configuration.\n\n## Andradite: protocol as accumulated geology\n\nReleased through Art Blocks Factory on May 25, 2021, *Andradite* comprises exactly 222 artworks. It adapts Modo n.°7, one of Eltono’s wall-painting protocols, into an interactive digital drawing system. Nine basic shapes derive from points organized around a square. In the on-chain work, two layers of six shapes occupy a 2 by 3 grid with a slight offset. White accents along oblique edges introduce cuts and depth into otherwise flat, dark masses.\n\nWhere *Swing* disperses movement across a bright graphic field, *Andradite* compresses it into something apparently mineral and architectural. The generated forms suggest brutalist construction, rock faces, or troglodytic spaces. Gradient backgrounds recall conventions of mineral photography, while the title refers to the sharply faceted garnet that supplied the project’s analogy. Yet these images do not imitate particular stones. They make algorithmic accumulation appear geological.\n\nThe project emerged through movement among media. Eltono had used Modo n.°7 for wall paintings, drawings, wooden assemblages, and sculptures. Concrete studies made in 2020 allowed him to observe how the protocol’s shapes interacted in three dimensions before the digital series translated those observations back into a luminous plane. This circulation complicates any simple division between physical and digital practice. Code is one instrument among brushes, tape, concrete, wood, CNC equipment, and dice.\n\nHis *Stylus* drawings make that continuity especially clear. Processing-generated files directed a CNC machine fitted with a stylus across a tablet screen, moving from digital instruction through mechanical execution and back to a digital image. The point was not technological novelty alone. Each translation exposed the protocol to another material interface and another opportunity for variation.\n\n## The street after software\n\nEltono encountered blockchain art after years of generative mural practice. In a 2022 interview, he dated his use of generative wall protocols to 2010 and described testing rules in Processing before executing them manually with dice. He also explained why Art Blocks was consequential: it enabled a collector to commit before the work was generated, making the unknown result intrinsic to the exchange. This mechanism matched an artistic concern already present in his gallery experiments, namely how to create work whose final state remained unresolved at the point of commitment.\n\nSeen in this context, minting is less a rupture than another public procedure. The blockchain records an edition and its provenance, but the decisive aesthetic event is still the encounter between a prepared rule and an uncontrollable variable. Eltono’s long-standing refusal to reproduce street images as detached studio commodities finds an unexpected counterpart here. The on-chain work does not simulate a mural. It transfers the mural practice’s logic of bounded uncertainty.\n\nThis logic also distinguishes his work from a narrow account of generative art as automated abundance. Limits are everywhere: a fixed grid, a restricted set of shapes, chosen palettes, a defined edition, and carefully weighted parameters. Constraint makes difference legible. The 310 editions of *Swing* and 222 editions of *Andradite* are not demonstrations that a machine can produce endlessly. They are finite studies in how much unpredictability a visual language can absorb without losing identity.\n\nThat continuity remains active. In April 2026, Eltono completed *Modo n.º70* at Dalle du Colombier in Rennes, a mural and floor painting designed to be activated through basketball. Developed with a local under-13 girls’ team, the playable work uses a game of chance to determine actions along routes defined by geometric shapes.\n\nEltono’s institutional history reinforces the same continuity. His projects have appeared in settings ranging from neighborhood interventions to ARTIUM. In 2008, he participated in Tate Modern’s *Street Art Walking Tour*, which placed site-specific works by five Madrid-based artists around the museum rather than inside its galleries. Gallery representation has likewise emphasized his integration of color, line, and form with architectural surroundings rather than treating the mural as a scalable signature. An Uprise Art profile summarizes the connection succinctly: his interest in generative art arose from observing how unsanctioned works evolved after installation in the street.\n\n> For Eltono, unpredictability is not noise introduced after composition. It is a collaborator invited in by the protocol.\n\nThe resulting oeuvre asks where a work is actually located. It may reside on a wall, in a set of instructions, in the actions of participants, in a machine’s path, in a browser, or in the differences among hundreds of outputs. Across those locations, Eltono preserves a consistent proposition. Form becomes most alive when authorship establishes a framework, then makes room for the world to answer.",
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    {
      "n": 1,
      "note": "This interview traces Eltono’s beginnings in railway graffiti and his 1999 turn toward brush-painted geometric forms.",
      "url": "https://talldarkroast.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/exclusive-interview-eltono/",
      "label": "Tall Dark Roast"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "note": "Eltono’s information page characterizes public space as the support, studio, and inspiration for his practice.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/en/info/",
      "label": "Artist information"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "note": "This interview explains Eltono’s distinction between the conditions of street work and gallery production.",
      "url": "https://blog.ekosystem.org/2012/11/eltono-interview-eng/",
      "label": "Ekosystem"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "note": "Javier Abarca situates Eltono as a pioneer whose contextual paintings respond closely to their surroundings.",
      "url": "https://urbanario.es/articulo/eltono/",
      "label": "Urbanario profile"
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "note": "ARTIUM’s press document describes Eltono’s biography, visual vocabulary, and context-responsive working method.",
      "url": "https://www.artium.eus/images/historico/_eng/Comunicacion/notas/np120706_exhib_praxis_eltono.pdf",
      "label": "ARTIUM release"
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "note": "The project record documents how public interaction determined the development of Pubblico.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/es/exhibitions/solo/pubblico/",
      "label": "Pubblico"
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "note": "The Deambular publication details the project’s walking procedures and connection between exhibition room and city.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1st-Fanzine-Eltono-En.pdf",
      "label": "Deambular"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "note": "Brooklyn Street Art discusses Eltono’s use of chance and dice to facilitate unforeseen outcomes.",
      "url": "https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2023/01/07/el-tono-talks-post-graffiti-with-mzm/",
      "label": "Brooklyn Street Art"
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "note": "Artsy describes the rule-setting process behind Eltono’s generative work and Modo 7 practice.",
      "url": "https://www.artsy.net/artwork/eltono-modo-7-fluctuo",
      "label": "Artsy"
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "note": "This portfolio documents the randomized participatory procedure used for Automatic Painting in Tokyo.",
      "url": "https://www.zutique.com/sites/default/files/documentations/portfolio-eltono-english-2013.pdf",
      "label": "Artist portfolio"
    },
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      "n": 11,
      "note": "Art Blocks records Swing as a 310-work Factory collection released on November 2, 2021.",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/swing-by-eltono",
      "label": "Art Blocks Swing"
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "note": "Eltono’s project page specifies Swing’s grid, layers, line forms, palette, and variable features.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/swing/",
      "label": "Swing protocol"
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "note": "Art Blocks records Andradite as a 222-work Factory collection released on May 25, 2021.",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/andradite-by-eltono",
      "label": "Art Blocks Andradite"
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "note": "Eltono’s project page explains Andradite’s Modo n.°7 construction, mineral analogy, layers, and physical precedents.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/andradite/",
      "label": "Andradite protocol"
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "note": "The Stylus project record documents a workflow linking Processing, CNC movement, a tablet, and digital output.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/stylus/",
      "label": "Stylus"
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "note": "Kaloh’s interview connects Eltono’s mural protocols, Processing tests, dice, discovery of Art Blocks, and commitment to an unknown output at mint.",
      "url": "https://www.kaloh.xyz/p/-from-astonishing-murals-to-blockchain",
      "label": "Kaloh interview"
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "note": "Galleria Varsi’s profile describes Eltono’s integration of geometric painting with architectural settings.",
      "url": "https://www.galleriavarsi.it/collections/eltono",
      "label": "Galleria Varsi"
    },
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      "n": 18,
      "note": "Uprise Art’s profile links Eltono’s interest in generative art to the changing life of unsanctioned public works.",
      "url": "https://www.upriseart.com/journal/meet-eltono",
      "label": "Uprise Art"
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "note": "Eltono documents Modo n.º70 as a playable generative mural and floor painting made with an under-13 girls’ basketball team at Dalle du Colombier in Rennes in April 2026.",
      "url": "https://www.eltono.com/en/murals/modo70/",
      "label": "Modo n.º70"
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          "note": "Art Blocks records Andradite as 222 unique artworks released through Art Blocks Factory on May 25, 2021.",
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          "meta": "collection · 2021"
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          "note": "A long-form conversation covers Eltono’s early graffiti, education, materials, travel, and public-space practice.",
          "url": "https://talldarkroast.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/exclusive-interview-eltono/",
          "label": "Tall Dark Roast",
          "meta": "interview · 2011"
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          "note": "Eltono discusses Madrid, Beijing, pseudonymity, and the distinct conditions of street and gallery work.",
          "url": "https://blog.ekosystem.org/2012/11/eltono-interview-eng/",
          "label": "Ekosystem",
          "meta": "interview · 2012"
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          "note": "Kaloh interviews Eltono about generative murals, dice, Processing, Art Blocks, and blockchain art.",
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          "label": "Kaloh",
          "meta": "interview · 2022"
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          "note": "Javier Abarca examines Eltono’s development from railway graffiti to context-sensitive geometric interventions.",
          "url": "https://urbanario.es/articulo/eltono/",
          "label": "Urbanario",
          "meta": "criticism · 2008"
        },
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          "note": "Brooklyn Street Art introduces an audiovisual profile centered on Eltono’s post-graffiti methods and embrace of accident.",
          "url": "https://www.brooklynstreetart.com/2023/01/07/el-tono-talks-post-graffiti-with-mzm/",
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          "meta": "press · 2023"
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          "note": "ARTIUM’s institutional release presents Deambular as an urban project connecting museum, walking, and public space.",
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          "label": "ARTIUM",
          "meta": "institution · 2012"
        },
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          "note": "The Deambular publication details its procedures, context, and documentary structure.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1st-Fanzine-Eltono-En.pdf",
          "label": "Deambular publication",
          "meta": "institution · 2012"
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          "note": "Pubblico tested how viewers and street conditions could transform installed posters.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/es/exhibitions/solo/pubblico/",
          "label": "Pubblico",
          "meta": "exhibition · 2009"
        },
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          "note": "Galleria Varsi profiles Eltono’s integration of geometric form with architecture and public space.",
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          "note": "Artsy documents Modo 7 (Fluctuo) and outlines the artist’s parameter-based generative method.",
          "url": "https://www.artsy.net/artwork/eltono-modo-7-fluctuo",
          "label": "Modo 7 (Fluctuo)",
          "meta": "gallery listing · 2022"
        },
        {
          "note": "Eltono documents Modo n.º70, a playable generative mural and floor painting completed with a youth basketball team in Rennes.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/en/murals/modo70/",
          "label": "Modo n.º70",
          "meta": "public artwork · 2026"
        }
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        {
          "note": "Eltono’s Swing record explains the project’s 3 by 2 grid and its controlled visual variables.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/swing/",
          "label": "Swing protocol",
          "meta": "project essay · 2021"
        },
        {
          "note": "The Andradite record connects an on-chain series to Modo n.°7 paintings, drawings, assemblages, and sculpture.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/andradite/",
          "label": "Andradite protocol",
          "meta": "project essay · 2021"
        },
        {
          "note": "The Stylus record describes drawings made through a hybrid Processing, CNC, tablet, and chance-based workflow.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/lab/projects/stylus/",
          "label": "Stylus",
          "meta": "project essay · 2021"
        }
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          "note": "Raster aggregates Eltono's tokenized works across platforms.",
          "url": "https://www.raster.art/artist/eltono",
          "label": "Raster",
          "meta": "profile · ongoing"
        },
        {
          "note": "Eltono’s information archive provides a practice statement, exhibition history, talks, and bibliography.",
          "url": "https://www.eltono.com/en/info/",
          "label": "Information archive",
          "meta": "archive · current"
        },
        {
          "note": "Art Blocks records Eltono’s generative practice and both platform projects.",
          "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/artists/eltono",
          "label": "Art Blocks",
          "meta": "artist profile · current"
        },
        {
          "note": "Uprise Art’s studio profile discusses the artist’s passage from changing street works to generative processes.",
          "url": "https://www.upriseart.com/journal/meet-eltono",
          "label": "Uprise Art",
          "meta": "profile · current"
        },
        {
          "note": "A documented portfolio surveys public, participatory, and automatic painting projects through 2013.",
          "url": "https://www.zutique.com/sites/default/files/documentations/portfolio-eltono-english-2013.pdf",
          "label": "Portfolio",
          "meta": "archive · 2013"
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