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Stranger in the Q: links

Selected records, project texts, exhibitions, code studies, and archives situate Stranger in the Q’s generative practice.

23 sources · last updated 2026-07-11

In the AB[500]: Art Blocks

Art Blocks records SL/CE as a 40-work Art Blocks Presents collection released in 2023.

SL/CE collection · 2023

The NFT Market Report lists Tentura among generative collections released during the first half of 2022.

NFT Market Report catalogue · 2022

Galleries and exhibitions

Alba’s Tiny Geometries exhibition text discusses Xeno and its varied shader-generated finishes.

Tiny Geometries exhibition · 2023

Alba’s platform record identifies Xeno by Stranger in the Q among its featured generative projects.

Alba platform record platform · 2023

Essays, talks and podcasts

The artist’s Xeno process essay describes the work’s simplex-noise foundation, development branches, and print tests.

Xeno process essay essay · 2023

The official Genuary archive credits Stranger in the Q for the 3 January 2024 prompt.

Genuary prompts archive · 2024

The Genuary 2026 project records a Stranger in the Q prompt, “Boxes only,” in its schedule.

Genuary 2026 archive · 2026

An OpenProcessing interpretation documents the “Boxes only” prompt credited to Stranger in the Q.

Boxes only creative-code response · 2026

Profiles and archives

Raster aggregates Stranger in the Q's tokenized works across platforms.

Raster profile · ongoing

The NFT Market Report situates Tentura within a chronological survey of generative releases.

Market report archive report · 2022

OpenSea maintains an activity record for the artist’s Xeno collection.

Xeno activity marketplace archive · 2023

Code and process

A browser study preserves one strand of Stranger in the Q’s public creative-coding experimentation.

Browser study I code study · undated

A second public study extends the archive of the artist’s browser-native experiments.

Browser study II code study · undated

A fragment-shader study demonstrates radial folding and animated distance fields.

Radial fold code study · undated

An RGBA.js example identifies the artist’s custom compact shader library and links its source project.

RGBA.js example I code study · undated

A further CodePen work provides another surviving entry in the artist’s experimental browser archive.

Browser study III code study · undated

Another archived pen documents the iterative breadth of Stranger in the Q’s coding practice.

Browser study IV code study · undated

A separate public pen adds to the inspectable record of the artist’s visual programming.

Browser study V code study · undated

A noise-based RGBA.js example exposes a custom function and shader construction in the browser.

RGBA.js example II code study · undated

A further archived experiment documents continued work inside CodePen’s live-editing environment.

Browser study VI code study · undated

A mirrored-coordinate shader uses repeated inversion to create recursive geometric depth.

Mirror shader code study · undated

CodePen’s generative challenge archive includes Stranger in the Q’s “firework in forest” contribution.

Generative challenge platform archive · undated

A Steam Workshop record preserves attribution and a direct link to an additional Stranger in the Q CodePen work.

Spider attribution archive · 2022

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