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Harvey Rayner
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Jan 8

Demystifying Generative Art

A collectors guide to a new algorithmic art genre — 1. Definitions (Those already familiar with Long Form Generative art may want to skip to chapter 2) What is generative art Strictly speaking the term Generative art refers to art created by utilizing the influence of an autonomous system. Typically this is a non-human system which will determine certain features of an artwork. …

Generative Art

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Demystifying Generative Art
Demystifying Generative Art
Generative Art

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Dec 17, 2022

What do you get if you blend the visual DNA of two mid 20th Century artistic movements into a 21st Century generative art algorithm?

“When there’s anything to steal, I steal.” — Pablo Picasso The original ideas evolved by these artistic canons tell very different stories in the history of post war American art. My approach however is more about just stealing from the visual lexicon of mark-making that characterizes these movements ignoring much of the contextual conversations around these works. I’ve never had…

Generative Art

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What do you get if you blend the visual DNA of two mid 20th Century artistic movements into a 21st…
What do you get if you blend the visual DNA of two mid 20th Century artistic movements into a 21st…
Generative Art

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Oct 3, 2022

Why Long Form Generative Art could evolve into the most significant artistic movement in the last 50 years

The birth of an authentic internet native art in a new decentralized world — The authors background and biases Full disclosure: I am a long form generative artist and so I have an emotional bias and financial incentive to promote LFGArt. I should also be clear I have no qualification as an art historian or technologist and haven’t even been engaged with either world…

Art

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Why Long Form Generative Art could evolve into the most significant artistic movement in the last…
Why Long Form Generative Art could evolve into the most significant artistic movement in the last…
Art

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Aug 21, 2022

The Fontana approach to fully generative color

Attempting to find deep color variety in longform generative art — For those not technically inclined I recommend just reading the introduction and conclusion where I have tried to keep the focus on more general concerns of the generative art genre. …

Generative Art

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The Fontana approach to fully generative color
The Fontana approach to fully generative color
Generative Art

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Aug 16, 2022

Fontana ~A long form generative art project by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco

Fontana : Latin for fountain Fontana core theme Fontana is a playful attempt at abstractly capturing the flowing movement of a fountain using precisely drawn elements that evoke a static and considered rendering of a subject that is in constant flux. The visual language is reminiscent of hand-draughted technical drawing, a precise and…

Generative Art

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Fontana ~A long form generative art project by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco
Fontana ~A long form generative art project by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco
Generative Art

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Jul 24, 2022

Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 2

Second 10 of 30 — I see a collision between planets in this output. A key intention in this project was to create structures and textures that might be seen as objects on a micro or macro scale. As the photon travels at the speed-of-light, time and space to this elementary particle is not as…

Generative Art

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Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 2
Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 2
Generative Art

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Jul 8, 2022

Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 1

First 10 of 30 selected mints — I’m sequentially going through the 404 mints of Photon’s Dream and writing a paragraph for each mint that stands out to me as being the the most complete, most arresting and sometimes most surprising expressions of the algorithm. I am grateful to all who have supported the project and I…

Generative Art

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Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 1
Comments on noteworthy mints from Photon’s Dream by project creator Harvey Rayner ~ Part 1
Generative Art

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May 27, 2022

Photon’s Dream: A long form generative art project built from waveform primitives and quasicrystals emergent structures

Drops 15th June ~ Artblocks.io A photon is a particle representing a quantum of light. Because it travels at the speed-of-light, time and space as we understand it do not exist for this elementary particle. The Big Bang was less than an instant ago for the photon and yet it…

Generative Art

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Photon’s Dream: A long form generative art project built from waveform primitives and quasicrystals…
Photon’s Dream: A long form generative art project built from waveform primitives and quasicrystals…
Generative Art

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May 27, 2022

NFT features: An opportunity to provide a rich and expressive title substitute for long form generative artworks

One artist’s perspective on NFT artwork attributes — Who is this article written for The makers, buyers and facilitators of long form generative art. This article anticipates the reader has some basic knowledge of this emerging genre. For a 101 introduction into longform generative art I recommend reading Tyler Hobb’s excellent essay The rise of long form generative art. My hope in sharing some…

Generative Art

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NFT features: An opportunity to provide a rich and expressive title substitute for long form…
NFT features: An opportunity to provide a rich and expressive title substitute for long form…
Generative Art

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Harvey Rayner

Harvey Rayner

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AKA @patterndotco - Long Form Generative artist. Loves making art that explores esoteric geometry. https://pattern.co/ https://twitter.com/patterndotco/

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