Dmitri Cherniak: links
A verified source ledger for an artist who made automation a medium, a string and peg system into an icon, and two later Art Blocks projects into experiments in speculation and collective restraint.
Works and the artist's own sites
Cherniak's official Linktree gathers his current projects, editions, social accounts, and publications.
Dmitri Cherniak links ↗The artist's Level portfolio indexes Dead Ringers, The Rinkeby Sessions, and related physical editions.
Dmitri Cherniak portfolio ↗Light Years presents 100 generative works paired with silver gelatin prints and made with the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy.
Light Years ↗The project mechanics describe Light Years' selection passes, process works, negatives, prints, and institutional placements.
Light Years project details ↗TASCHEN's Ironic Dessert edition pairs Cherniak's 2023 NFT and print with the book On NFTs.
Ironic Dessert ↗Avant Arte's Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations translates the museum token into a nine-image silkscreen parameter sweep.
Ringers #962: The LACMA Iterations ↗In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks' artist profile records Cherniak's biography, recognition, and three projects in the foundational set.
Dmitri Cherniak on Art Blocks ↗Ringers, 1,000 editions, generates a string wrapped around pegs sampled from a grid and was released on 31 January 2021.
Ringers ↗The Eternal Pump, 50 editions, is an animated Playground project made in response to the speculative intensity surrounding Ringers.
The Eternal Pump ↗The Wrapture, 50 minted editions, links a generative release to a year-long holder agreement about movement, sale, and listing.
The Wrapture ↗Jeff Davis interviews Cherniak on engineering, automation, early crypto art, and the geometry behind Ringers.
In Conversation with Dmitri Cherniak ↗The Art Blocks Playground archive situates Cherniak's two experimental follow-ups within the programme opened to Curated artists.
Art Blocks Playground ↗An Art Blocks collector profile shows four Ringers together and discusses collecting generative art as personal conviction.
Collector Spotlight: AC ↗Museums and institutions
LACMA announces the Cozomo de' Medici collection gift, including Ringers #962 among 22 blockchain works.
New Acquisition: The Cozomo de' Medici Collection ↗LACMA's press release documents the collection as the largest group of blockchain artworks to enter an American art museum at the time.
LACMA blockchain acquisition release ↗Buffalo AKG's collection record documents Light Years #051, gifted by Fellowship in 2023.
Light Years #051 ↗Buffalo AKG's annual report records the acquisition of Light Years #051 among the museum's gifts.
Buffalo AKG annual report ↗The Medici Collection's record for Ringers #962 preserves the work later promised to LACMA.
Ringers #962 ↗Galleries and exhibitions
Fellowship's Light Years: Process Works exhibition presented 30 sketches tracing the algorithm's development.
Light Years: Process Works ↗AOTM's artist page presents Cherniak's catalogue, biography, physical works, and current gallery programme.
Dmitri Cherniak at AOTM ↗AOTM documents Cherniak's multimedia installation for the inaugural Zero 10 sector at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Dmitri Cherniak at Zero 10 ↗The AOTM press release details Floor Ringer, Ringers outputs, and Polygon Etcetera at Art Basel Miami Beach.
AOTM at Art Basel Miami Beach ↗Beyond Digital at Venus Over Manhattan placed Cherniak within a group exhibition on hybrid physical and digital practice.
Beyond Digital ↗Interviews
Darius Himes speaks with Cherniak and Daniel Hug of the Moholy-Nagy estate about the research, code, and photographic process behind Light Years.
Light Years: In Conversation ↗Jason Bailey's extended interview covers Autoglyphs, Art Blocks, Ringers as a total set, Dead Ringers, and the Pump community.
An Interview with Dmitri Cherniak ↗The audio edition of Bailey's conversation presents Cherniak on the power, history, and overfinancialisation of generative art.
Dmitri Cherniak on the Power of Generative Art ↗Le Random speaks with Cherniak about Infinite Images, museum display, engineering, and changing ideas of automation.
Dmitri Cherniak on Strictly for Art ↗Avant Arte's LACMA conversation joins Cherniak and curator Dhyandra Lawson to discuss systems, randomness, and Ringers.
In Conversation: Dmitri Cherniak at LACMA ↗Press and criticism
Sotheby's reports the USD 6.2 million sale of Ringers #879, known as the Goose, and its place in generative-art auction history.
The Goose Lays a USD 6.2M Golden Egg ↗Sotheby's Grails record for Ringers #98 preserves the work's provenance, estimate, and auction result.
Ringers #98 ↗Sotheby's generative-art essay places Ringers within the longer history of programmed and rule-based art.
Generative Art, a Quintessentially Modern Art Form ↗The individual Sotheby's lot record preserves the estimate, provenance, and result for Ringers #879.
Ringers #879 lot record ↗Curated's collection guide studies Cherniak's background, Ringers' formal traits, historical roots, and collecting context.
Collecting the Algorithm: Ringers ↗Curated's wider primer uses Ringers to discuss on-chain generative art, display, scarcity, and ownership.
Collecting the Algorithm ↗CoinDesk reconstructs the year-long Wrapture agreement and the collectors' response to the Three Arrows Capital liquidation.
The Wrapture Holders Kept Their Cool ↗Le Random reviews Toledo's Infinite Images and reads 25 Ringers prints through the legibility of their parameters.
Infinite Images, Finite Control ↗Artforum reviews Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, which placed Cherniak within a multigenerational computational history.
Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms ↗AOTM surveys Cherniak's movement from algorithmic images to physical and sculptural expressions of automation.
Dmitri Cherniak's Algorithmic Tapestry ↗Hyperspek connects Ringers, The Eternal Pump, and The Wrapture through their algorithms and collector community.
Ringer, Pump and Wrapture ↗DT Journal offers an early collector reading of Ringers' simplicity, complexity, and figurative associations.
Ringers: Simplicity, Complexity, Meaning ↗The Line surveys Cherniak's projects through rhythm, the Pump community, Wrapture, and Dead Ringers.
Coding Rhythm with Dmitri Cherniak ↗Avant Arte's guide explains generative art through the Ringers algorithm and the accidental emergence of the Goose.
What Is Generative Art? ↗USA Art News reports on Cherniak's research into the Moholy-Nagy archive for Light Years.
Cherniak Takes Cues from Moholy-Nagy ↗Artnet's NFT 30 issue profiles Cherniak as an early generative artist working with blockchain distribution.
The Artnet NFT 30 ↗NFTEvening reports on the presentation of Light Years at Paris Photo and its partnership with the Moholy-Nagy estate.
Light Years at Paris Photo ↗NFTEvening explains the random-wallet distribution and Food Bank for New York City fundraiser behind Dead Ringers: Edition.
Dead Ringers: Edition ↗The Art Canada Institute records the Goose sale within a survey of notable Canadian art stories.
In the Know: June 2023 ↗Profiles and archives
Avant Arte's artist profile surveys Cherniak's automation practice, works, Ringers record, and LACMA acquisition.
Dmitri Cherniak at Avant Arte ↗Le Random's artist archive records Cherniak's biography, influences, wallet, and works held by the collection.
Dmitri Cherniak at Le Random ↗Opera Magna's archive presents Ringers, Light Years, Transparent Grit, and both Playground projects.
Dmitri Cherniak at Opera Magna ↗The Anne and Michael Spalter collection documents Cherniak's Rinkeby Sessions and the test-network history of Ringers.
Dmitri Cherniak at the Spalter Collection ↗AOTM's curriculum vitae lists Cherniak's exhibitions, collections, publications, and collaborations.
Dmitri Cherniak CV ↗Video
Avant Arte's 37-minute film follows Cherniak through LACMA in conversation about systems, chance, and Ringers #962.
Dmitri Cherniak in Conversation at LACMA ↗