steen: links
Sources for steen and n-e-o’s Art Blocks projects, their market records, and the technical, institutional, and critical history of on-chain generative art.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
Art Blocks records Time Squared by n-e-o and steen as 212 unique artworks released on 6 January 2022.
Art BlocksArt Blocks explains its model of artist-authored algorithms, randomized minting, and unique generative outputs.
Art Blocks overviewArt Blocks’ discovery index situates AB[500] among the platform’s collection categories and identifies geometric work as a major aesthetic grouping.
Discover Art BlocksPress and criticism
Christie’s collector guide explains Art Blocks and distinguishes system-based generative art from adjacent AI practices.
Christie’sThe Block reports on Sotheby’s Art Blocks-powered generative-art auction and its market reception.
The BlockThe NFT Market Report places Time Squared within a wider chronology of generative collections.
NFT ValuationsMuseums and institutions
Museum Angewandte Kunst’s Unblock Gaudi exhibition contextualized generative, motion, AI, and blockchain art within changing digital culture.
Museum Angewandte KunstThe Generative Art Museum examines technology’s role in widening artistic production and cultural participation.
The Generative Art MuseumThe University of Nicosia’s course presentation surveys NFTs and generative art on the blockchain, including Art Blocks’ historical collection categories.
University of NicosiaGalleries and exhibitions
The exhibition catalogue A Generative Movement surveys historical and contemporary generative practice, including work stored on Ethereum and released through Art Blocks.
bitforms galleryThe Generative Art Museum’s exhibition brochure considers blockchain-based art within a global account of technological culture.
World Wide Art brochureProof of Work’s exhibition guide documents an early institutional treatment of art made with and about blockchain systems.
Proof of WorkEssays, talks and podcasts
Art Blocks’ protocol overview explains the premise that the algorithm is the artwork and details deterministic hash-based rendering.
Protocol overviewArt Blocks documents how its generator assembles scripts, token hashes, and dependencies into browser-viewable works.
On-chain generatorErick Calderon recounts Art Blocks’ four-year effort to make generative works reconstructable directly from blockchain data.
True On-Chain ArtworkArt Blocks’ study of Chromie Squiggle explains how collector transactions seed individual outcomes in long-form generative art.
Inside the AlgorithmAuctions and catalogues
Sotheby’s case study describes its use of Art Blocks Engine for Vera Molnár’s on-chain generative project.
Sotheby’s and Art BlocksSotheby’s Digital Art department archive situates its generative-art sales within a broader program of digital auctions.
Sotheby’s Digital ArtSotheby’s catalogue entry for The Blocks of Art describes a generative project organized around the Art Blocks community.
Digital Art DayProfiles and archives
OpenSea records Calendart as a 365-work Art Blocks collection and indexes its parameter traits.
CalendartOpenSea records Time Squared as a 212-work Art Blocks collection and indexes arrangement, palette, pattern, size, and speed traits.
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