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  "subtitle": "Organic motion, encoded as a living image",
  "lede": "last-even's *Amoeba* treats code as a medium for producing mutable-looking organisms. Its 213 editions preserve variation within a coherent visual species.",
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    "otdh": "[11,659 · rank 179 of 308](/artists/otdh/#artist-last-even)",
    "holding signal": "169 collector identities · 169 holder addresses · 296,539 raw collector-days · 14 Sep 2026",
    "collector tdh": "[leTDH](/artists/last-even/letdh/) · dashboard"
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      "heading": null,
      "paragraphs": [
        "last-even is a pseudonymous generative artist whose documented public record centers on *Amoeba*. Released through Art Blocks in 2021, the project belongs to a period when browser-executed scripts and blockchain minting were being joined into a distinctive model of digital production. Art Blocks described its works as generative algorithms combined with token-specific seeds and run live in the browser, allowing each mint to produce a deterministic, unique output. Within that framework, *Amoeba* comprises exactly **213 editions**.",
        "The project title provides its governing metaphor. Each output appears less like a diagram of a biological specimen than a temporary state within a synthetic life cycle. Rounded masses gather, divide, overlap, and press toward the frame. Color establishes internal zones, while contours keep those zones legible as one unstable body. The result is a productive tension between organism and abstraction: the image suggests something alive without resolving into literal illustration."
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      "heading": "A system for soft bodies",
      "paragraphs": [
        "A 2022 university dissertation reproduced *Amoeba* as an example of an Art Blocks work and dated it to 28 October 2021. A market report independently placed the collection among generative projects released during the second half of 2021. These records establish the project's historical setting, even though they reveal little about the artist's biography.",
        "That scarcity of biography redirects attention toward the system itself. Across the six outputs shown here, the vocabulary remains recognizable while composition changes substantially. Lobes swell or narrow, nested regions migrate, and contrasting colors alternately divide and bind the form. Repetition therefore operates at the level of grammar, not duplication. The series offers 213 negotiations between a stable rule set and the contingency of an individual mint.",
        "The visual logic depends on boundaries that appear firm and elastic at once. Contours separate adjacent colors, yet the larger silhouettes imply pressure, flow, and deformation. Individual images can resemble cells, islands, or cross-sections, but none settles permanently into one category. This ambiguity is central to the project's effect. Code supplies exact coordinates and colors, while the resulting forms invite bodily and biological associations."
      ]
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    {
      "heading": "Distribution and afterlife",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The collection also exists through technical and social records. Etherscan identifies the shared address behind the supplied renders as an Art Blocks ERC-721 contract and exposes its verified GenArt721Core source code and callable functions for scripts, token hashes, minting, and project metadata. An independent infrastructure archive associates that same address and contract with Artblocks. These records do not replace critical interpretation, but they locate the artwork within the machinery that generated and circulated it.",
        "Art Blocks documentation explains that its core contract is an open-source ERC-721 architecture and that token identifiers encode both a project and an invocation. This context clarifies the relationship between an individual output and its wider project: a rendered work is one invocation within a rule-governed collection, not simply an isolated uploaded illustration. The distinction matters for *Amoeba*, whose identity rests on variation across a population of related results.",
        "The project also participated in Art Blocks' philanthropic activity. The platform's community publication reported that *Amoeba* generated $4,159 for Meals for Unity during its 2021 anniversary charity drive. This record gives the collection a documented social context beyond its circulation as a collectible.",
        "*Amoeba* demonstrates how a compact generative system can sustain identity across many outputs without reducing variation to ornamental difference. Its soft geometry makes computation appear bodily, while its edition structure makes every body one member of a larger population. In the absence of an expansive artist narrative, the 213 works remain the clearest account of last-even's practice."
      ]
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  "body_markdown": "last-even is a pseudonymous generative artist whose documented public record centers on *Amoeba*. Released through Art Blocks in 2021, the project belongs to a period when browser-executed scripts and blockchain minting were being joined into a distinctive model of digital production. Art Blocks described its works as generative algorithms combined with token-specific seeds and run live in the browser, allowing each mint to produce a deterministic, unique output. Within that framework, *Amoeba* comprises exactly **213 editions**.\n\nThe project title provides its governing metaphor. Each output appears less like a diagram of a biological specimen than a temporary state within a synthetic life cycle. Rounded masses gather, divide, overlap, and press toward the frame. Color establishes internal zones, while contours keep those zones legible as one unstable body. The result is a productive tension between organism and abstraction: the image suggests something alive without resolving into literal illustration.\n\n## A system for soft bodies\n\nA 2022 university dissertation reproduced *Amoeba* as an example of an Art Blocks work and dated it to 28 October 2021. A market report independently placed the collection among generative projects released during the second half of 2021. These records establish the project's historical setting, even though they reveal little about the artist's biography.\n\nThat scarcity of biography redirects attention toward the system itself. Across the six outputs shown here, the vocabulary remains recognizable while composition changes substantially. Lobes swell or narrow, nested regions migrate, and contrasting colors alternately divide and bind the form. Repetition therefore operates at the level of grammar, not duplication. The series offers 213 negotiations between a stable rule set and the contingency of an individual mint.\n\nThe visual logic depends on boundaries that appear firm and elastic at once. Contours separate adjacent colors, yet the larger silhouettes imply pressure, flow, and deformation. Individual images can resemble cells, islands, or cross-sections, but none settles permanently into one category. This ambiguity is central to the project's effect. Code supplies exact coordinates and colors, while the resulting forms invite bodily and biological associations.\n\n## Distribution and afterlife\n\nThe collection also exists through technical and social records. Etherscan identifies the shared address behind the supplied renders as an Art Blocks ERC-721 contract and exposes its verified GenArt721Core source code and callable functions for scripts, token hashes, minting, and project metadata. An independent infrastructure archive associates that same address and contract with Artblocks. These records do not replace critical interpretation, but they locate the artwork within the machinery that generated and circulated it.\n\nArt Blocks documentation explains that its core contract is an open-source ERC-721 architecture and that token identifiers encode both a project and an invocation. This context clarifies the relationship between an individual output and its wider project: a rendered work is one invocation within a rule-governed collection, not simply an isolated uploaded illustration. The distinction matters for *Amoeba*, whose identity rests on variation across a population of related results.\n\nThe project also participated in Art Blocks' philanthropic activity. The platform's community publication reported that *Amoeba* generated $4,159 for Meals for Unity during its 2021 anniversary charity drive. This record gives the collection a documented social context beyond its circulation as a collectible.\n\n*Amoeba* demonstrates how a compact generative system can sustain identity across many outputs without reducing variation to ornamental difference. Its soft geometry makes computation appear bodily, while its edition structure makes every body one member of a larger population. In the absence of an expansive artist narrative, the 213 works remain the clearest account of last-even's practice.",
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      "note": "A university dissertation reproduced Amoeba and dated the work to 28 October 2021.",
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      "note": "The NFT Market Report listed Amoeba by last even among generative collections released in the second half of 2021.",
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      "note": "Etherscan exposes the Art Blocks ERC-721 contract's verified GenArt721Core source code and callable functions.",
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      "note": "The Lab associates the shared Ethereum contract address and GenArt721Core contract with Artblocks.",
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      "note": "Art Blocks' community publication reported that Amoeba generated $4,159 for Meals for Unity.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/charity-on-chain-2021-wrap-up-c69782fa7f4a",
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          "note": "Art Blocks' platform essay explains its model of algorithms, token-specific seeds, browser execution, and uniquely generated works.",
          "url": "https://opensea.io/blog/articles/art-blocks",
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          "note": "Art Blocks' community publication records Amoeba's contribution to its 2021 anniversary charity drive.",
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          "note": "The Link's first-anniversary letter reflects on the early development and reception of Art Blocks' on-chain generative art program.",
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