Ruben Alexander: links

The AB[500] index presents the completed group of the platform’s first 500 projects.

OpenSea provides a secondary-market collection archive for Star Flower.

Phillips announced Ex-Machina as an exhibition and online auction tracing generative art from early computer art to contemporary NFTs.

Art Blocks examines seriality, algorithms, constraint, and participation as characteristics of serial algorithmic art.

The Phillips Ex-Machina catalogue surveys a history of generative art across early computer graphics and blockchain-based work.

Alexander’s Universal Key essay documents his movement between oil pastel, scanning, digital art, and NFTs.

Art Blocks’ interactive timeline connects AB[500] with the platform’s five-year history.

Alexander’s Tater Goes to Vote post preserves another strand of his NFT-related image and writing practice.

Art Blocks explains the role of artist-defined parameters and controlled randomness in its generative model.

An OpenSea object record documents Star Flower #83 as an ERC-721 token on Ethereum.

Phillips’ video introduces Ex-Machina as a history of automated art production.

Raster aggregates Ruben Alexander's tokenized works across platforms.

Alexander’s Linktree identifies him as an artist and coder and indexes his public projects.

Alexander’s Simbi profile records his earlier graphics and rendering experience.

The Lab identifies the shared contract as GenArt721Core and associates its ownership label with Art Blocks.

The Art Blocks Generator documentation explains how scripts, token hashes, and dependencies are assembled into browser-viewable works.

The protocol overview describes deterministic rendering from token-specific hashes and artist scripts.

The on-chain storage guide explains how the generator retrieves scripts and dependencies to assemble viewable HTML.

The Factory archive documents the program’s March 2021 launch and October 2022 closure.

The Playground archive provides parallel historical context for an Art Blocks program active from 2021 to 2022.