Aaron Penne: links

Apparitions (2021) is a 1,500-edition Curated Series 2 project exploring the space between algorithmic and organic forms through noise-field perturbation.

Rituals - Venice (2021) is a 1,000-edition audiovisual collaboration with Boreta, combining generative music and generative artwork in a parametric universe.

Return (2021) is a 300-edition Playground project described as a meditation on returning inward, released June 1, 2021.

One More Day (2024) is a 50-edition Studio project released May 23, 2024, continuing Penne's exploration of generative abstraction.

Penne discusses coding as an art form, rebelling against his day job, and how discovering who you are is the gateway to honest work.

Penne and Boreta discuss the healing power of generative systems, their iterative collaboration, and the creation of Passages as a sound-bath experience.

Penne explains his translation of Herbert W. Franke's 1982 AppleSoft Basic code for ZENTRUM into contemporary software, including his week with an original Apple IIe.

Penne appears on the Minters and Makers weekly Twitter Space hosted by Art Blocks alongside Zeneca_33 and Druid.

Fireside chat at NFT.NYC 2022 with Aaron Penne (Art Blocks Director of Engineering) and Ian Utile.

Druid's survey of on-chain project types positions Apparitions as a landmark p5.js project and Rituals - Venice as a pioneering dynamic audiovisual work.

Geek Culture survey of generative art in the NFT space highlights Penne's Apparitions and its approximately USD 600,000 in secondary royalties.

DappRadar reports on Art Blocks' 777% trading volume increase following the Apparitions release in March 2021.

ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe holds Apparitions #1110 in its collection as a generative algorithm on Ethereum.

The Seattle NFT Museum exhibited Penne's work in Artist and the Machine (2022), exploring collaboration between artists and algorithms.

ArtScience Museum in Singapore included Penne's Within/Without in Notes From the Ether: From NFTs to AI (2023).

Gazelli Art House presented Rituals - Venice as part of the inaugural Lumen Prize NFT Award exhibition in London, October to November 2022.

Galloire featured Penne's Catalina series at Art Dubai 2023 in the Digital Section booth alongside Daniel Canogar and Miguel Chevalier.

Bright Moments hosted the IRL minting of Rituals - Venice in Venice Beach, September 2021, the gallery's first live-minting event.

Penne curated N=12 on Feral File (2023), an exhibition featuring Piter Pasma and other generative artists.

Penne delivered a keynote at the Generative Art Summit Berlin (July 2024) alongside pioneers including Frieder Nake and Herbert W. Franke.

Unit London published an essay on generative music worldbuilding citing Penne and Boreta's Rituals and Passages projects as models of immersive generative experience.

Penne was featured in a panel at Seattle Art Fair 2022 on bridging the digital and physical, alongside Jennifer Wong and Nato Thompson.

Sotheby's Natively Digital sale (June 2021) included Apparitions alongside Ringers, Chromie Squiggle, and other landmark curated projects.

Christie's offered Bright Moments' complete 2021-2024 works including the original Rituals - Venice mints in June 2024.

Sotheby's Lumen Prize Anniversary auction (October 2024) featured Penne's Catalina [Moon, Horizon] diptych as dye sublimation prints on aluminium.

Le Random artist profile documents Penne's biography, exhibition history, and ETH addresses.

Verse Works hosts Penne's artist page with collection links and market data for Apparitions, Return, and Rituals - Venice.

ARTXCODE curated artist page for Aaron Penne, representing his work in the generative art market.

Official video for Boreta & Aaron Penne's Infinite Portal from the Rituals album, extending the Venice project to streaming platforms.

Documentation of the Passages live-minting installation at Bright Moments, March 2023, showing the sensory deprivation chamber experience.

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