Artists

Note on counting

This register lists 308 artists, matching the Art Blocks artist directory for the ab500 set, rather than the 312 distinct credit strings carried in the projects' on-chain artist_name field. The two reconcile through the project→profile relationship Art Blocks maintains (projects_metadata.artist_profiles), applied as three transforms:

(i) Alias resolution. On-chain pseudonyms map to their canonical profile: ixnayokay → Aaron Boyarsky, Shaderism → Arttu Koskela, Chaosconstruct → Arjit Kapoor.

(ii) Variant coalescence. Multiple credit strings resolving to one profile are merged: Santiago / Santiago.; Harvey Rayner / Harvey Rayner | patterndotco; Matto / Matto – Shinkai.

(iii) Collaboration decomposition. 20 joint projects are split into their member profiles, each member inheriting the project's editions, so Asemica credits Emily Edelman, Dima Ofman, and Andrew Badr individually.

Because collaborators are counted individually while a person is counted once regardless of how many credit strings they used, the summed per-artist project counts (521 artist–project pairs) exceed the 500 projects. The set total is unaffected: 292,980 minted works across 500 projects, with editions counted once per project and never multiplied across collaborators. Three projects carry no profile link in the source data and were attributed to their artist by name so no work is dropped.

Names, X handles, and websites are read from each artist's Art Blocks profile (display_name, twitter, website_url); an overrides file fills anything a profile leaves blank. Regenerate from source with scripts/build_artists.py.