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  "lede": "Jeremy Schoenherr, known as Jeres, builds generative systems in which ordered procedures yield turbulent, painterly fields. His Art Blocks Curated project *Torrent* treats distortion as both a visual process and a model of memory.",
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        "Jeremy Schoenherr’s practice joins the procedural logic of software to an interest in experiences that resist stable description. Trained through sustained work in design and software engineering, he approaches an algorithm as a designed encounter between artwork and viewer. Schoenherr has described generative art as sharing important characteristics with applications: both establish rules, accept inputs, and produce experiences mediated by hardware. His studies in computer engineering and art history provide the practice with a dual vocabulary of systems and images.",
        "This combination does not lead to an ideal of frictionless computation. Schoenherr instead uses code to expose uncertainty. Gradients, waves, irregular lines, animation, and broad parameter spaces prevent the viewer from exhausting a system’s possible expressions. The algorithm remains bounded by its author, yet bugs, overlooked interactions, and unexpected outputs can exceed those intended limits. For Schoenherr, that tension echoes questions about determinism, context, and the choices through which a life acquires form."
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      "heading": "A structure altered by time",
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        "Released through Art Blocks Curated on September 6, 2023, *Torrent* comprises 300 unique artworks. The project begins with a base composition of elementary marks, including circles and lines rendered as pixels. A shader then operates as a lens, selecting, displacing, and transforming that underlying information. Some source material remains visible, while other passages disappear or emerge far from their initial positions.",
        "The resulting images resemble stained textiles, mineral surfaces, flood deposits, splashed pigment, and landscapes subjected to erosion. Their layered color is not merely an imitation of analog media. It records a computational passage from one state to another. Schoenherr connects this transformation to imperfect memory: an event may persist, but any later account is partial, subjective, and susceptible to revision. *Torrent* is consequently less concerned with recovering an authoritative truth than with examining the stories through which experience becomes intelligible.",
        "The work also unfolds in time. Its animation can be started, stopped, accelerated, slowed, or advanced frame by frame. Movement makes the shader’s reinterpretation perceptible, turning each composition into a changing view of an inaccessible substrate. Schoenherr has described the project as an exploration of truth, memory, and experience in which one person’s account, or even the same person’s account, may evolve with time and new information."
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    {
      "heading": "Systems as emotional instruments",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Schoenherr’s broader work clarifies why *Torrent* feels simultaneously engineered and vulnerable. His algorithms frequently begin through experimentation rather than the execution of a fixed image. An emerging visual or emotional quality becomes a direction to test, revise, or abandon. This process places discovery inside authorship: the artist defines a system, but also responds to what it reveals.",
        "That method continued in *Repetition and Noise* (2024), a shortlisted work in the Finnish National Gallery’s Combine24 competition. Drawing on the museum’s digitized collection, the project recombined archival imagery into wave-like collages. The National Gallery described the work as blurring the boundaries between original collection images and newly generated material, while the Combine24 presentation placed it among projects engaging directly with the museum archive. Although distinct in source and institutional setting, the project extends a central concern of *Torrent*: images survive through alteration rather than perfect preservation.",
        "> In Schoenherr’s generative systems, distortion is not the loss of meaning. It is the condition through which meaning continues to change."
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  "body_markdown": "Jeremy Schoenherr’s practice joins the procedural logic of software to an interest in experiences that resist stable description. Trained through sustained work in design and software engineering, he approaches an algorithm as a designed encounter between artwork and viewer. Schoenherr has described generative art as sharing important characteristics with applications: both establish rules, accept inputs, and produce experiences mediated by hardware. His studies in computer engineering and art history provide the practice with a dual vocabulary of systems and images.\n\nThis combination does not lead to an ideal of frictionless computation. Schoenherr instead uses code to expose uncertainty. Gradients, waves, irregular lines, animation, and broad parameter spaces prevent the viewer from exhausting a system’s possible expressions. The algorithm remains bounded by its author, yet bugs, overlooked interactions, and unexpected outputs can exceed those intended limits. For Schoenherr, that tension echoes questions about determinism, context, and the choices through which a life acquires form.\n\n## A structure altered by time\n\nReleased through Art Blocks Curated on September 6, 2023, *Torrent* comprises 300 unique artworks. The project begins with a base composition of elementary marks, including circles and lines rendered as pixels. A shader then operates as a lens, selecting, displacing, and transforming that underlying information. Some source material remains visible, while other passages disappear or emerge far from their initial positions.\n\nThe resulting images resemble stained textiles, mineral surfaces, flood deposits, splashed pigment, and landscapes subjected to erosion. Their layered color is not merely an imitation of analog media. It records a computational passage from one state to another. Schoenherr connects this transformation to imperfect memory: an event may persist, but any later account is partial, subjective, and susceptible to revision. *Torrent* is consequently less concerned with recovering an authoritative truth than with examining the stories through which experience becomes intelligible.\n\nThe work also unfolds in time. Its animation can be started, stopped, accelerated, slowed, or advanced frame by frame. Movement makes the shader’s reinterpretation perceptible, turning each composition into a changing view of an inaccessible substrate. Schoenherr has described the project as an exploration of truth, memory, and experience in which one person’s account, or even the same person’s account, may evolve with time and new information.\n\n## Systems as emotional instruments\n\nSchoenherr’s broader work clarifies why *Torrent* feels simultaneously engineered and vulnerable. His algorithms frequently begin through experimentation rather than the execution of a fixed image. An emerging visual or emotional quality becomes a direction to test, revise, or abandon. This process places discovery inside authorship: the artist defines a system, but also responds to what it reveals.\n\nThat method continued in *Repetition and Noise* (2024), a shortlisted work in the Finnish National Gallery’s Combine24 competition. Drawing on the museum’s digitized collection, the project recombined archival imagery into wave-like collages. The National Gallery described the work as blurring the boundaries between original collection images and newly generated material, while the Combine24 presentation placed it among projects engaging directly with the museum archive. Although distinct in source and institutional setting, the project extends a central concern of *Torrent*: images survive through alteration rather than perfect preservation.\n\n> In Schoenherr’s generative systems, distortion is not the loss of meaning. It is the condition through which meaning continues to change.",
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      "title": "Torrent, field in motion",
      "caption": "2023, Torrent",
      "rights": "Not CC0 - Art Blocks render, property of the artist/holders"
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      "title": "Torrent, displaced strata",
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      "title": "Torrent, residual current",
      "caption": "2023, Torrent",
      "rights": "Not CC0 - Art Blocks render, property of the artist/holders"
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      "title": "Torrent, folded terrain",
      "caption": "2023, Torrent",
      "rights": "Not CC0 - Art Blocks render, property of the artist/holders"
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      "title": "Torrent, after the flood",
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      "n": 1,
      "note": "Layer’s 2025 interview discusses Schoenherr’s software background, creative process, education, and understanding of generative systems.",
      "url": "https://layer.com/artists/jeres/interview",
      "label": "Layer interview"
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      "note": "The official Art Blocks collection record identifies Torrent as 300 unique artworks released on September 6, 2023.",
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      "note": "Schoenherr’s project essay explains Torrent’s imagery, conceptual framework, shader, base composition, and animation controls.",
      "url": "https://jeres.xyz/torrent/",
      "label": "Torrent essay"
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      "n": 4,
      "note": "An Endaoment interview records Schoenherr’s account of Torrent, its charitable component, and its treatment of changing memory and truth.",
      "url": "https://paragraph.com/%40endaoment/pride-is-personal-how-a-web3-artist-donor-makes-heartfelt-impact",
      "label": "Endaoment interview"
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      "note": "A Finnish National Gallery release describes Repetition and Noise and its transformation of digitized collection imagery.",
      "url": "https://www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/70520142/pa-utstallningen-remix-the-archive-far-verken-i-nationalgalleriets-samlingar-en-ny-form-genom-generativ-konst?lang=sv&publisherId=17525083",
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          "note": "A release preview situates Torrent as Schoenherr’s Art Blocks Curated debut and describes its water-related imagery.",
          "url": "https://mintorskip.beehiiv.com/p/fun-mints-flying-radar",
          "label": "Mint or Skip",
          "meta": "collection · 2023"
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          "note": "Kaloh’s profile previews Torrent and places it within Schoenherr’s earlier generative practice.",
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          "note": "Taidelehti reviews Repetition and Noise in the Finnish National Gallery’s Remix the Archive exhibition.",
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          "note": "Design Milk profiles Schoenherr as a Los Angeles code artist whose rule-based systems balance variation and control.",
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          "note": "Fakewhale documents the Remix the Archive exhibition at Alusta Space and its presentation of Schoenherr’s work.",
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          "note": "Heft Gallery’s exhibition archive records Schoenherr’s Material Certainty, Material Violence, and collaborative Wanderer presentations.",
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          "note": "Schoenherr’s essay for Heuristics of Emotion discusses digital emotion, painterly computation, and artist and collector curation.",
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          "note": "Schoenherr’s Pandigitalism text argues for practices that move between analog traditions and digitally native art.",
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          "note": "Kaloh’s podcast surveys generative-art collections and includes discussion of Schoenherr’s Coronado and Torrent.",
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          "note": "Raster aggregates Jeremy Schoenherr (Jeres)'s tokenized works across platforms.",
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