Ruben Alexander: links
Sources for locating Star Flower within Alexander’s practice, the Art Blocks ecosystem, and the history and infrastructure of generative art.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
The AB[500] index presents the completed group of the platform’s first 500 projects.
AB[500] indexOpenSea provides a secondary-market collection archive for Star Flower.
OpenSeaPress and criticism
Phillips announced Ex-Machina as an exhibition and online auction tracing generative art from early computer art to contemporary NFTs.
PhillipsArt Blocks examines seriality, algorithms, constraint, and participation as characteristics of serial algorithmic art.
On a New Aesthetics of SerialityMuseums and institutions
The Phillips Ex-Machina catalogue surveys a history of generative art across early computer graphics and blockchain-based work.
PhillipsEssays, talks and podcasts
Alexander’s Universal Key essay documents his movement between oil pastel, scanning, digital art, and NFTs.
Universal KeyArt Blocks’ interactive timeline connects AB[500] with the platform’s five-year history.
Five-year timelineAlexander’s Tater Goes to Vote post preserves another strand of his NFT-related image and writing practice.
Tater Goes to VoteArt Blocks explains the role of artist-defined parameters and controlled randomness in its generative model.
About Art BlocksAuctions and catalogues
An OpenSea object record documents Star Flower #83 as an ERC-721 token on Ethereum.
Star Flower #83Phillips’ video introduces Ex-Machina as a history of automated art production.
Ex-MachinaProfiles and archives
Raster aggregates Ruben Alexander's tokenized works across platforms.
RasterAlexander’s Linktree identifies him as an artist and coder and indexes his public projects.
LinktreeAlexander’s Simbi profile records his earlier graphics and rendering experience.
SimbiThe Lab identifies the shared contract as GenArt721Core and associates its ownership label with Art Blocks.
The LabTechnical documentation
The Art Blocks Generator documentation explains how scripts, token hashes, and dependencies are assembled into browser-viewable works.
On-chain GeneratorThe protocol overview describes deterministic rendering from token-specific hashes and artist scripts.
Protocol overviewThe on-chain storage guide explains how the generator retrieves scripts and dependencies to assemble viewable HTML.
On-chain storageRelated Art Blocks context
The Factory archive documents the program’s March 2021 launch and October 2022 closure.
Art Blocks FactoryThe Playground archive provides parallel historical context for an Art Blocks program active from 2021 to 2022.
Art Blocks PlaygroundUse this research
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