- Artist
- Jean-Jacques Duclaux (Eko33) · eko33.com ↗
- Based
- Born 1980, Switzerland. Lives and works in Switzerland
- Practice
- Generative art, autonomous systems, AI-assisted image-making, plotted works, prints, and nonfigurative computational abstraction
- Now
- Continuing work across Art Blocks, ARTXCODE, Fellowship, Raster, and other digital art platforms
- Raster
- raster.art/artist/eko33 ↗
- In the set
- Neural Sediments ↗ · 300 editions
- Links
- Full bibliography ↗
Jean-Jacques Duclaux, working as Eko33, belongs to a strand of generative art that treats code not as a finishing tool, but as a studio method. Art Blocks identifies him as a Swiss digital artist born in 1980 who lives and works in Switzerland, with a practice concerned with cognition, decision-making, environmental preservation, and the relation between technology and perception.1 Profiles by ARTXCODE and Le Random extend that description into a longer chronology: Eko33 has been exploring algorithmic systems since the 1990s, combining custom code, self-trained AI models, and nonfigurative abstraction.23
A practice of coded perception
Eko33's biography is unusually useful for reading the work because it situates the images between older generative traditions and contemporary machine collaboration. Fellowship describes him as a French artist with a background in computer science who began making algorithmic images before AI art became a mainstream category, while ARTXCODE emphasizes the move between experimental sound, creative coding, plotted surfaces, and machine-trained models.45 The result is not a clean division between analogue and digital. His process often appears as a layered negotiation: drawing, parameter selection, software construction, texture, and output.
That negotiation is also institutional. Art Blocks records exhibitions and recognitions including Le Monde Non Objectif at Unpaired Gallery in Zug, Art Dubai with Galloire Gallery, Art Basel, the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Tezos, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Serpentine, and the Unpredictable Lines exhibition at Cortesi Gallery Milano.1 Kate Vass Galerie and Galloire both frame the work through nonfigurative generative abstraction, with emphasis on clear geometrical structures, custom algorithms, and the artist's interest in pure art made through computational systems.67
Neural Sediments
Neural Sediments is Eko33's AB[500] work: an Art Blocks Curated collection of exactly 300 editions, released in 2023.8 The title is precise. It suggests accumulated deposits rather than instant image production, and it aligns with the project's visual language of strata, soft gradients, cellular densities, and partially legible forms. Verse presents the series within Art Blocks Curated and repeats the 300-artwork structure, connecting the project to an art-historical concern with observation, objectivity, and trained judgment.9
The work's significance lies in how it makes machine vision feel geological. Forms seem to emerge through pressure and time, but they remain computationally bounded. ARTXCODE's interview asks directly about the algorithm for Neural Sediments, and the artist describes a careful developmental process rather than a single prompt-like act.5 In that sense, the series is less an illustration of AI than a disciplined system for making uncertainty visible. Each edition holds a different balance between contour and atmosphere, procedural control and painterly drift.
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Live on Art Blocks: neural-sediments-by-eko33 ↗
Compact position
The compact tier is appropriate because Eko33 is not yet supported by a large museum literature, but the available record is substantive across Art Blocks, galleries, digital art platforms, and press. His 2023 Solana Artists in Residence participation at Art Basel Miami Beach placed him alongside Lisanne Haack and Sleepr in a live studio format, and NFT Now later described the residency as part of his broader embrace of Solana after decades of generative practice.1011 Raster's profile reinforces the same continuity, describing a generative practice active since 1999 and presenting works across the platform's market and archive interface.12
Within AB[500], Neural Sediments functions as a concise bridge between early computational art commitments and a newer visual culture shaped by AI, blockchain editions, and platform-native distribution. Its 300 editions are enough to display breadth, but contained enough to keep the series legible as one formal proposition: a study of how coded systems can produce images that feel observed, remembered, and deposited over time.
Bibliography
The references cited in this essay are listed below. For the complete bibliography see the Jean-Jacques Duclaux (Eko33) links page ↗.