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Gerard Ferrandez (ge1doot): links

Selected records, interviews, exhibitions, criticism, archives, and market documents situating Gerard Ferrandez’s generative practice.

22 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

The official collection page records Ignition as 512 unique works released January 8, 2021.

Ignition collection · 2021

The official collection record identifies R3sonance as 512 unique works released February 28, 2021.

R3sonance collection · 2021

The official collection record identifies Utopia as 256 unique works released February 7, 2021.

Utopia collection · 2021

The official collection record identifies Aurora IV as 128 unique works released April 24, 2021.

Aurora IV collection · 2021

Interviews

Jeff Davis’s Art Blocks conversation covers Ferrandez’s 8-bit beginnings, iterative method, WebGL practice, and Ignition.

In Conversation with Gerard Ferrandez interview · 2021

HackerRank discusses Ferrandez’s definition of creative coding and the relationship between his art and professional programming.

Creating Art with Code interview · 2019

Press and criticism

Ham 94 reads Ignition through rotation, darkness, light, and the visual language of deep space.

Ignition / ge1doot criticism · 2023

Right Click Save’s account of generative-art lineages supplies critical context for rule-based human-machine practices.

The Generations of Generative Art criticism · 2023

Museums and institutions

ZKM’s CryptoArt exhibition includes multiple examples from Ferrandez’s Ignition and R3sonance series.

CryptoArt museum exhibition · 2021

Galleries and exhibitions

Materia’s collection presentation includes ge1doot and Utopia among foundational Art Blocks holdings.

Materia collection collection display · current archive

Essays, talks and podcasts

Plotter Materials Issue One places ge1doot in a cross-generational survey of tools used for machine drawing.

Plotter Materials Issue One publication · 2023

An early HotScripts listing archives Ferrandez’s interactive Dynamic HTML art demonstrations and their open-source distribution.

Interactive DHTML art-demos archive · 2004

Auctions and catalogues

NFT Valuations’ market-report teaser includes Aurora IV in its overview of supported generative collections.

NFT Market Report market report · 2022

A second NFT Valuations report identifies Ignition and R3sonance within its collection coverage.

NFT Market Report update market report · 2022

Profiles and archives

Raster aggregates Gerard Ferrandez (ge1doot)'s tokenized works across platforms.

Raster profile · ongoing

Sealed archives the public wallet presentation associated with ge1doot and its created and collected works.

ge1doot wallet archive archive · current

OpenSea’s account page preserves a marketplace profile identifying ge1doot as a creator of interactive NFTs.

ge1doot on OpenSea marketplace profile · current

An Art Blocks token page preserves the traits, ownership state, and live-render option for an Ignition output.

Ignition token record token archive · 2021

Video and interactive studies

Ferrandez’s initial-release record documents Where the Shadows Wait as a WebGL2 generative city built from procedural rules and temporal shadows.

Where the Shadows Wait open-source work · 2026

A CodePen recreation explicitly cites Ferrandez’s never force as its source and demonstrates the work’s influence on other coders.

Recreating never force interactive study · archive

A CodePen adaptation credits Ferrandez’s original Metaballs experiment and exposes the implementation in executable form.

Metaballs interactive study · archive

A further CodePen experiment identifies Ferrandez’s flowers as the basis for its animated construction.

Flowers adaptation interactive study · archive

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