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    "artist": "Matty Mariansky",
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    "based": "Graduate engineer of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Lives and works in Tel Aviv.",
    "practice": "Generative art, synthetic media, and artificial intelligence; lecturer on machine learning for designers at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.",
    "now": "Founder of the \"Rise of the Machines\" AI community (65,000+ members); studio practice active in Tel Aviv.",
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      "heading": null,
      "paragraphs": [
        "Matty Mariansky's career traces a path from engineering to entrepreneurship to full-time artistic practice, a trajectory that mirrors the broader cultural shift from Silicon Valley utility to blockchain aesthetics . After studying at the Technion and founding the prolific web-design studio Supersize, he co-founded several AI startups before committing to art exclusively in 2021 . That pivot was catalyzed by his discovery of Dmitri Cherniak's *Ringers* and the realization that Art Blocks offered a native medium for the generative systems he had been building privately for decades .",
        "Mariansky describes a generative artwork as \"a lot like a quantum wave function,\" in which all possible outcomes exist in superposition until a collector's mint forces the probability universe to collapse into a single, undeniable reality . This physics-inflected vocabulary is not mere metaphor: it reflects a practice that treats code as a compressed form of potential, with each token representing a unique collapse of that latent space into visible form. His work is distinguished by a recursive interest in agency, asking whether an algorithm built to construct mazes can liberate itself from determinism, or whether humans can escape the pre-written scripts of their own cultural programming .",
        "> \"A generative art piece is a lot like a quantum wave function. All the possible outcomes exist inside it in superposition, floating in a latent space bowl of probabilities.\""
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "The Brushstroke Detached: Brushpops (2021)",
      "paragraphs": [
        "*Brushpops* is a generative system of 1,000 editions inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's iconic paintings of brushstrokes, released on Art Blocks Factory on August 30, 2021 . Where Lichtenstein detached the brushstroke from its original painterly context, Mariansky takes the next logical step: he detaches the artist from the work entirely. A random hash determines the composition of each piece, and the artist has surrendered curatorial control, unable to discard outputs he dislikes . The result is a series of abstract marks that hover between expression and automation, each one a frozen gesture that was never performed by a human hand.",
        "The collection sold out during a Dutch auction that started at 15 ETH, a pricing experiment that slowed the minting frenzy and allowed collectors to observe the outputs before committing . The work's conceptual rigor, its engagement with art-historical precedent, and its technical execution established Mariansky as a significant voice in the generative art community at a moment when the field was expanding from niche practice to cultural phenomenon ."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Emotion Versus Reason: Para Bellum (2022)",
      "paragraphs": [
        "*Para Bellum*, released as an Art Blocks Curated project on February 7, 2022, consists of 1,000 editions that stage a conflict between emotion and gut instinct on one side, and logic and reason on the other . Emotions are portrayed by fuzzy color fields inspired by Mark Rothko; logic is illustrated by words generated by a thin language engine trained on dozens of books about rebellion and anarchy . The engine produces mostly non-existent English phrases, rendered in an on-chain embedded font against the abstract color grounds. The compositions that emerged surprised even the artist, evoking classic Swiss design posters and prompting Mariansky to use a non-square canvas for the first time .",
        "The project's title, Latin for \"prepare for war,\" signals its adversarial structure. Yet the war is not merely between color and text; it is between modes of cognition, between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex, between the mysticism of Kabbalah (a recurring influence in Mariansky's work) and the rationalism of computational linguistics . Collectors are invited to meditate on the possible meanings of their minted phrases, for, as the artist notes, \"the Blockchain has a message for you, and it will not be in plain sight\" ."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Beyond the Blockchain: Exhibitions and Installations",
      "paragraphs": [
        "While Mariansky's on-chain works have garnered international attention, his practice extends into physical space and institutional contexts. In 2024, his exhibition *Passion for the Real* at The Martine de Souza-Dassault Brain Art Gallery (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) presented a body of work that included *Real Summer*, an AI-driven rephotography project that reconstructed the artist's memories of Tel Aviv in 2001 using generative models . Curated by Dr. Michal Mor, the show framed Mariansky's practice within neuroscientific discourse, exploring how computational processes might accelerate cognitive development and creative breakthrough .",
        "The same year, his interactive installation *From Here On After* was exhibited in *All Through the Days: Playfulness in Contemporary Israeli Art* at the Ramat Gan Museum of Art, curated by Sari Golan and Adiya Porat . In this work, viewers sit around a table and place stones in response to an AI's spoken instructions, negotiating the power relations between human and machine in a playful but pointed manner. Other recent works include *The Gospel*, which bridges Kabbalah and TikTok through real-time AI scraping, and *A Science of Escape*, an algorithmic meditation on free will and determinism ."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Community, Pedagogy, and the Algorithmic Gaze",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Mariansky's influence extends beyond his individual artworks. In 2018, he established the \"Rise of the Machines\" community, which has grown to over 65,000 members and serves as a daily forum for discussion at the intersection of artificial intelligence and culture . He lectures on machine learning for designers in the MFA program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and has spoken at venues ranging from the Hacking UI Master Class to the One Shot Learning Anniversary Fest . His pedagogical approach emphasizes the algorithmic gaze: the idea that machines do not merely execute instructions but develop their own modes of seeing, evaluating, and creating .",
        "This concern with the algorithmic gaze manifests in earlier projects such as *Hidden Birds* (2021), in which an \"artist\" algorithm places color stains on a canvas and an \"art critic\" algorithm evaluates whether the result is \"birdish enough,\" creating a feedback loop of machine-driven aesthetic judgment . Similarly, *Jinn Machine Zero* (2021) employs an algorithmic duo to discover portraits hidden in the space of possible curves and stains, raising questions about recognition, emergence, and the threshold at which abstraction becomes figuration ."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Critical Position and Cultural Context",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Mariansky's work arrives at a moment when the boundaries between human and machine creativity are being aggressively renegotiated. His response is neither the technophobic retreat of the traditionalist nor the uncritical boosterism of the tech evangelist. Instead, he occupies a position of what might be called critical entanglement: using AI to explore the limits of AI, deploying generative systems to question the nature of generation itself. His 2024 work *Superhighway* quotes the Percipient Void: \"In examining the current trajectory of generative AI tools, it becomes evident that the Singularity will be less a triumphant merging of man and machine, and more a Faustian bargain, wherein we exchange our humanity for the promise of godlike powers\" .",
        "This ambivalence is productive. It allows Mariansky to create works that are simultaneously beautiful and unsettling, technically sophisticated and conceptually accessible. His inclusion in the 2025 Art Blocks Marfa Weekend exhibition *Milestones: A History of Generative Breakthroughs*, curated by Kate Vass, places him within a canon of on-chain innovators that includes Snowfro, Dmitri Cherniak, and Tyler Hobbs . Yet his practice remains rooted in specific cultural and intellectual traditions: Jewish mysticism, mid-century abstract expressionism, Swiss graphic design, and the hacker ethos of early web animation."
      ]
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  "body_markdown": "Matty Mariansky's career traces a path from engineering to entrepreneurship to full-time artistic practice, a trajectory that mirrors the broader cultural shift from Silicon Valley utility to blockchain aesthetics . After studying at the Technion and founding the prolific web-design studio Supersize, he co-founded several AI startups before committing to art exclusively in 2021 . That pivot was catalyzed by his discovery of Dmitri Cherniak's *Ringers* and the realization that Art Blocks offered a native medium for the generative systems he had been building privately for decades .\n\nMariansky describes a generative artwork as \"a lot like a quantum wave function,\" in which all possible outcomes exist in superposition until a collector's mint forces the probability universe to collapse into a single, undeniable reality . This physics-inflected vocabulary is not mere metaphor: it reflects a practice that treats code as a compressed form of potential, with each token representing a unique collapse of that latent space into visible form. His work is distinguished by a recursive interest in agency, asking whether an algorithm built to construct mazes can liberate itself from determinism, or whether humans can escape the pre-written scripts of their own cultural programming .\n\n> \"A generative art piece is a lot like a quantum wave function. All the possible outcomes exist inside it in superposition, floating in a latent space bowl of probabilities.\"\n\n## The Brushstroke Detached: Brushpops (2021)\n\n*Brushpops* is a generative system of 1,000 editions inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's iconic paintings of brushstrokes, released on Art Blocks Factory on August 30, 2021 . Where Lichtenstein detached the brushstroke from its original painterly context, Mariansky takes the next logical step: he detaches the artist from the work entirely. A random hash determines the composition of each piece, and the artist has surrendered curatorial control, unable to discard outputs he dislikes . The result is a series of abstract marks that hover between expression and automation, each one a frozen gesture that was never performed by a human hand.\n\nThe collection sold out during a Dutch auction that started at 15 ETH, a pricing experiment that slowed the minting frenzy and allowed collectors to observe the outputs before committing . The work's conceptual rigor, its engagement with art-historical precedent, and its technical execution established Mariansky as a significant voice in the generative art community at a moment when the field was expanding from niche practice to cultural phenomenon .\n\n## Emotion Versus Reason: Para Bellum (2022)\n\n*Para Bellum*, released as an Art Blocks Curated project on February 7, 2022, consists of 1,000 editions that stage a conflict between emotion and gut instinct on one side, and logic and reason on the other . Emotions are portrayed by fuzzy color fields inspired by Mark Rothko; logic is illustrated by words generated by a thin language engine trained on dozens of books about rebellion and anarchy . The engine produces mostly non-existent English phrases, rendered in an on-chain embedded font against the abstract color grounds. The compositions that emerged surprised even the artist, evoking classic Swiss design posters and prompting Mariansky to use a non-square canvas for the first time .\n\nThe project's title, Latin for \"prepare for war,\" signals its adversarial structure. Yet the war is not merely between color and text; it is between modes of cognition, between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex, between the mysticism of Kabbalah (a recurring influence in Mariansky's work) and the rationalism of computational linguistics . Collectors are invited to meditate on the possible meanings of their minted phrases, for, as the artist notes, \"the Blockchain has a message for you, and it will not be in plain sight\" .\n\n## Beyond the Blockchain: Exhibitions and Installations\n\nWhile Mariansky's on-chain works have garnered international attention, his practice extends into physical space and institutional contexts. In 2024, his exhibition *Passion for the Real* at The Martine de Souza-Dassault Brain Art Gallery (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) presented a body of work that included *Real Summer*, an AI-driven rephotography project that reconstructed the artist's memories of Tel Aviv in 2001 using generative models . Curated by Dr. Michal Mor, the show framed Mariansky's practice within neuroscientific discourse, exploring how computational processes might accelerate cognitive development and creative breakthrough .\n\nThe same year, his interactive installation *From Here On After* was exhibited in *All Through the Days: Playfulness in Contemporary Israeli Art* at the Ramat Gan Museum of Art, curated by Sari Golan and Adiya Porat . In this work, viewers sit around a table and place stones in response to an AI's spoken instructions, negotiating the power relations between human and machine in a playful but pointed manner. Other recent works include *The Gospel*, which bridges Kabbalah and TikTok through real-time AI scraping, and *A Science of Escape*, an algorithmic meditation on free will and determinism .\n\n## Community, Pedagogy, and the Algorithmic Gaze\n\nMariansky's influence extends beyond his individual artworks. In 2018, he established the \"Rise of the Machines\" community, which has grown to over 65,000 members and serves as a daily forum for discussion at the intersection of artificial intelligence and culture . He lectures on machine learning for designers in the MFA program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and has spoken at venues ranging from the Hacking UI Master Class to the One Shot Learning Anniversary Fest . His pedagogical approach emphasizes the algorithmic gaze: the idea that machines do not merely execute instructions but develop their own modes of seeing, evaluating, and creating .\n\nThis concern with the algorithmic gaze manifests in earlier projects such as *Hidden Birds* (2021), in which an \"artist\" algorithm places color stains on a canvas and an \"art critic\" algorithm evaluates whether the result is \"birdish enough,\" creating a feedback loop of machine-driven aesthetic judgment . Similarly, *Jinn Machine Zero* (2021) employs an algorithmic duo to discover portraits hidden in the space of possible curves and stains, raising questions about recognition, emergence, and the threshold at which abstraction becomes figuration .\n\n## Critical Position and Cultural Context\n\nMariansky's work arrives at a moment when the boundaries between human and machine creativity are being aggressively renegotiated. His response is neither the technophobic retreat of the traditionalist nor the uncritical boosterism of the tech evangelist. Instead, he occupies a position of what might be called critical entanglement: using AI to explore the limits of AI, deploying generative systems to question the nature of generation itself. His 2024 work *Superhighway* quotes the Percipient Void: \"In examining the current trajectory of generative AI tools, it becomes evident that the Singularity will be less a triumphant merging of man and machine, and more a Faustian bargain, wherein we exchange our humanity for the promise of godlike powers\" .\n\nThis ambivalence is productive. It allows Mariansky to create works that are simultaneously beautiful and unsettling, technically sophisticated and conceptually accessible. His inclusion in the 2025 Art Blocks Marfa Weekend exhibition *Milestones: A History of Generative Breakthroughs*, curated by Kate Vass, places him within a canon of on-chain innovators that includes Snowfro, Dmitri Cherniak, and Tyler Hobbs . Yet his practice remains rooted in specific cultural and intellectual traditions: Jewish mysticism, mid-century abstract expressionism, Swiss graphic design, and the hacker ethos of early web animation.",
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      "n": 1,
      "note": "Matty Mariansky's biography and career trajectory from engineering to full-time artist.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/about",
      "label": "Supersize About"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "note": "Interview with Jeff Davis discussing Mariansky's transition from startups to art.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "The Link Interview"
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      "n": 3,
      "note": "Mariansky on discovering Art Blocks through Dmitri Cherniak's Ringers.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Art Blocks Discovery"
    },
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      "n": 4,
      "note": "Mariansky's quantum wave function analogy for generative art.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Quantum Analogy"
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    {
      "n": 5,
      "note": "A Science of Escape project description exploring determinism and free will.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Science of Escape"
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      "n": 6,
      "note": "Pull quote from the Jeff Davis interview on generative art as quantum superposition.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "The Link Interview"
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      "n": 7,
      "note": "Art Blocks Factory collection page for Brushpops, 1,000 editions.",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/brushpops-by-matty-mariansky",
      "label": "Art Blocks Brushpops"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "note": "Mariansky on surrendering curatorial control in Brushpops.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Brushpops Concept"
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "note": "The Defiant article on the Brushpops Dutch auction and minting dynamics.",
      "url": "https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/art-blocks-drops-chase-eth",
      "label": "The Defiant Auction"
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "note": "NFT Market Report listing Brushpops among significant 2021 generative collections.",
      "url": "https://static.nftvaluations.com/reports/20221005%20-%20NFT%20Market%20Report%20Teaser.pdf",
      "label": "NFT Market Report"
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      "n": 11,
      "note": "Art Blocks Curated collection page for Para Bellum, 1,000 editions.",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/para-bellum-by-matty-mariansky",
      "label": "Art Blocks Para Bellum"
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "note": "Mariansky on the language engine trained on rebellion and anarchy texts.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/portfolio/para-bellum/",
      "label": "Para Bellum Portfolio"
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "note": "Interview on the Swiss design poster aesthetic and non-square canvas.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Design Evolution"
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "note": "Mariansky's interest in Kabbalah and antique amulets as project inspiration.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Kabbalah Influence"
    },
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      "n": 15,
      "note": "Mariansky's statement to collectors about hidden blockchain messages.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Collector Guidance"
    },
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      "n": 16,
      "note": "Passion for the Real exhibition at The Martine de Souza-Dassault Brain Art Gallery.",
      "url": "https://en-art.huji.ac.il/passion-real",
      "label": "Brain Art Gallery"
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "note": "Curatorial text by Dr. Michal Mor on creativity and computational processes.",
      "url": "https://en-art.huji.ac.il/brain-art-gallery",
      "label": "Exhibition Curatorial"
    },
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      "n": 18,
      "note": "From Here On After at Ramat Gan Museum of Art.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Ramat Gan Museum"
    },
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      "n": 19,
      "note": "The Gospel and A Science of Escape project descriptions.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Recent Works"
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      "n": 20,
      "note": "\"Rise of the Machines\" community with over 65,000 members.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/about",
      "label": "Rise of the Machines"
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      "note": "Hacking UI Master Class lecture on conversational design.",
      "url": "https://hackingui.com/chatbots-matty-mariansky/",
      "label": "Hacking UI"
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      "n": 22,
      "note": "Hidden Birds algorithm duo exploring machine aesthetic judgment.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Hidden Birds"
    },
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      "n": 23,
      "note": "Hidden Birds and Jinn Machine Zero project descriptions.",
      "url": "https://medium.com/the-link-art-blocks/in-conversation-with-matty-mariansky-786281785b50",
      "label": "Algorithm Duo"
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    {
      "n": 24,
      "note": "Jinn Machine Zero evolutionary portrait discovery.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Jinn Machine"
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "note": "Superhighway and the Faustian bargain of generative AI.",
      "url": "https://supersize.co.il/",
      "label": "Superhighway"
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "note": "Art Blocks Marfa Weekend Milestones exhibition featuring Mariansky.",
      "url": "https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog/artblocks-marfa-weekend-milestones",
      "label": "Kate Vass Galerie"
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      "category": "In the AB[500]: Art Blocks",
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        {
          "note": "Matty Mariansky's Art Blocks Factory project Brushpops released 1,000 editions on August 30, 2021.",
          "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/brushpops-by-matty-mariansky",
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          "meta": "Brushpops · 2021"
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        {
          "note": "Matty Mariansky's Art Blocks Curated project Para Bellum released 1,000 editions on February 7, 2022.",
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          "note": "VERSE.works presents the Para Bellum series with full project documentation.",
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          "note": "NFT Price Floor tracks Para Bellum market data and sales history.",
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          "note": "Matty Mariansky's professional profile and biography.",
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