Hjalmar Åström: links
Sources situating Hjalmar Åström’s Nucleus within Art Blocks and the histories of generative, digital, and on-chain art.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks defines the finite 500-project collection and its preservation rationale.
Introducing Art Blocks 500Art Blocks documents Playground as an experimental program active from 2021 to 2022.
PlaygroundArt Blocks’ discovery interface provides access to its historical collection categories.
Discover Art BlocksPress and criticism
Holladay Saltz analyzes seriality, algorithms, participation, and constraint in Art Blocks works.
New Aesthetics of SerialityNFT Valuations places Nucleus among generative collections released in the second half of 2021.
NFT Market ReportMuseums and institutions
The V&A surveys digital art from early computational practice through contemporary forms.
Digital ArtThe V&A collection portal documents institutional collecting of computer art since 1969.
Digital Art and DesignThe Toledo Museum of Art connects computer-art pioneers with recent algorithmic practices.
Infinite ImagesThe Castellani Art Museum traces foundational digital art and precursors to algorithmic practice.
HardwiredThe Blanton Museum presents data, algorithms, and generative models as contemporary artistic materials.
Run the CodeThe V&A’s artificial-intelligence study resource discusses computational artists and rule-based systems.
Artificial Intelligence Selection BoxEssays, talks and podcasts
Art Blocks explains its model of artist-authored algorithms and transaction-triggered generation.
About Art BlocksArt Blocks documents its approach to preserving scripts, dependencies, and browser-renderable works.
True On-Chain ArtworkArt Blocks examines how one generative algorithm develops a coherent vocabulary across many outputs.
Inside the AlgorithmLarva Labs discusses code, iteration, and the close of the historical Art Blocks Curated series.
Code Generates ArtProfiles and archives
Art Blocks’ technical documentation explains deterministic generation from an on-chain hash.
Art Blocks DocumentationArt Blocks’ interactive timeline records the platform’s early projects and community development.
Five-Year JourneyAuctions and catalogues
Art Blocks explains fixed-price minting and other mechanisms through which collectors trigger outputs.
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