Pedro Falco

Artist

Pedro Falco · pedrofalco.com/projects/asterisms ↗

Raster

raster.art/artist/falko ↗

Based

Born 1997, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based in Buenos Aires

Practice

Generative systems, procedural modeling, interactive installations, electronic objects, and blockchain-based art

In the set

Foliage ↗ · 250 editions
Asterisms ↗ · 100 editions

Links

Full bibliography ↗

Pedro Falco is an image and sound designer, digital artist, technology developer, and teacher born in Buenos Aires in 1997. His research concerns the computational image, the reinterpretation of data, and the appropriation of the internet. He uses generative systems, databases, blockchain technology, and procedural modeling to create online experiences, interactive installations, electronic objects, and data visualizations.¹ His curriculum vitae records an Audiovisual Design degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 2021 and a technical repertoire that includes JavaScript, Python, TouchDesigner, Blender, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi.²

Falco's practice is defined less by one technology than by an inquiry into how computational images acquire meaning. Code establishes a field of possibilities, while token hashes, simulated forces, interfaces, and viewers determine what becomes visible. Art Blocks describes AB[500] as its first 500 projects, published across several platform categories from 2020 to 2025.³ Falco applies the generative format to two familiar acts of perception, detecting movement among leaves and constructing figures among stars.

The invisible pressure of wind

Foliage begins with something that cannot be pictured directly: moving air. The series translates wind into repeated colored forms whose angles and alignments suggest leaves responding collectively to an unseen force. Falco's documented interest in real-time processes and the reinterpretation of data provides the conceptual framework for this conversion of information into movement.¹

Across its 250 editions, Foliage varies density, orientation, palette, and visual rhythm while retaining a coherent vocabulary. Individual marks remain discrete, but their accumulated direction produces the impression of a gust passing through a canopy, textile, or field of notation. The relationship between local variation and systemic order is central to the work. A 2022 market report places Foliage by Falko within its chronology of generative collections, while Falco's curriculum vitae records the project's presentation at NFT Rio that year.⁴²

The project also belongs to a wider professional history spanning online work and physical presentation. Falco's curriculum vitae records exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Rio de Janeiro, as well as talks and workshops concerned with pixels, blockchain storage, and digital culture.² In 2022, the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires presented his two-part workshop on storing pixels on a blockchain within a broader program about crypto art and Web3.⁵ These contexts clarify that Foliage is not merely a pattern generator. It forms part of a sustained inquiry into how code organizes images and how digital works circulate between screens, networks, and exhibition spaces.

Live on Art Blocks: foliage-by-falko ↗

Drawing as activation

Released on April 20, 2021, Asterisms makes participation explicit. Its 100 editions present generatively produced skies that viewers can alter by placing stars, zooming, entering a title, and saving the resulting composition. The token hash supplies a starting field, but the experience does not conclude with that initial output. Falco's proposition, “To be a user is to be a creator,” locates authorship in an encounter between artist, algorithm, token, and participant.⁶

An asterism becomes meaningful when someone recognizes or constructs a pattern among stars. Falco converts that perceptual habit into interface mechanics. The viewer does not merely receive an algorithmic variation but inscribes a personal figure within it. This interaction also tests rigid definitions of the digital artwork: the work may be understood as code, token, initial sky, saved drawing, or the process connecting them. Falco states that the project emerged amid debates about whether a blockchain artwork was the displayed image or the information held by its token.⁶

Together, the projects move in complementary directions. Foliage converts invisible environmental pressure into collective visual movement. Asterisms begins with a visible field and asks viewers to project meaning into it. Both demonstrate Falco's interest in systems that remain legible without becoming fixed, and in pixels whose identities emerge through relation and use.

Live on Art Blocks: asterisms-by-falko ↗

Bibliography

The references cited in this essay are listed below. For the complete bibliography see the Pedro Falco links page ↗.