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 Blocks ↗Art Blocks explains its model of artist-authored algorithms, randomized minting, and unique generative outputs.
Art Blocks overview ↗Art Blocks’ discovery index situates AB[500] among the platform’s collection categories and identifies geometric work as a major aesthetic grouping.
Discover Art Blocks ↗Press and criticism
Christie’s collector guide explains Art Blocks and distinguishes system-based generative art from adjacent AI practices.
Christie’s ↗The Block reports on Sotheby’s Art Blocks-powered generative-art auction and its market reception.
The Block ↗The NFT Market Report places Time Squared within a wider chronology of generative collections.
NFT Valuations ↗Museums and institutions
Museum Angewandte Kunst’s Unblock Gaudi exhibition contextualized generative, motion, AI, and blockchain art within changing digital culture.
Museum Angewandte Kunst ↗The Generative Art Museum examines technology’s role in widening artistic production and cultural participation.
The Generative Art Museum ↗The University of Nicosia’s course presentation surveys NFTs and generative art on the blockchain, including Art Blocks’ historical collection categories.
University of Nicosia ↗Galleries 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 gallery ↗The Generative Art Museum’s exhibition brochure considers blockchain-based art within a global account of technological culture.
World Wide Art brochure ↗Proof of Work’s exhibition guide documents an early institutional treatment of art made with and about blockchain systems.
Proof of Work ↗Essays, talks and podcasts
Art Blocks’ protocol overview explains the premise that the algorithm is the artwork and details deterministic hash-based rendering.
Protocol overview ↗Art Blocks documents how its generator assembles scripts, token hashes, and dependencies into browser-viewable works.
On-chain generator ↗Erick Calderon recounts Art Blocks’ four-year effort to make generative works reconstructable directly from blockchain data.
True On-Chain Artwork ↗Art Blocks’ study of Chromie Squiggle explains how collector transactions seed individual outcomes in long-form generative art.
Inside the Algorithm ↗Auctions 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 Blocks ↗Sotheby’s Digital Art department archive situates its generative-art sales within a broader program of digital auctions.
Sotheby’s Digital Art ↗Sotheby’s catalogue entry for The Blocks of Art describes a generative project organized around the Art Blocks community.
Digital Art Day ↗Profiles and archives
OpenSea records Calendart as a 365-work Art Blocks collection and indexes its parameter traits.
Calendart ↗OpenSea records Time Squared as a 212-work Art Blocks collection and indexes arrangement, palette, pattern, size, and speed traits.
Time Squared ↗