Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪

Rainforest punk. AI engineering leader. Making digital art since Photoshop 2.0

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@thefunnyguysNFT @kimasendorf @OleFach How did you discover this secret collection? 😉😎

@raster_art is such a pleasure to use, even more so for Tezos collections, and it's great to see it become the source of truth for any artist's catalog of work

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@monkantony_tez Bell Labs wins for both computing and art. Followed by Ohio State University and Charles Csuri, ahead of PARC for computer graphics and art IMO.

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

For deeper context, read @AlexEstorick’s excellent @RtClick_Save interview on Troika and the exhibition: “Contemporary Perception is Hybrid.”
It also feels like a great prelude to @ArtBasel’s Zero 10, co-curated next month by @trevorpaglen and @eli_schein

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

Just visited "Chapter VIII: Hallucinations" by Trevor Paglen & artist collective Troika (Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer, Sebastian Noel) at LagoAlgo in CDMX. It explores how AI, machine vision, and tech shape our worldviews. Catch it before it closes next weekend! Plus, @trevorpaglen is co-curating Zero 10 at Art Basel next month. 👇

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

Troika, Anima Atman (2024). Silicon rocks, thistles, salt, LED lights + custom electro-mechanical system. Thistles appear to move with an uncanny life force in an illuminated barren landscape -- a meditation on plant intelligence and non-human consciousness.

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@museumghostart @halecar2 @pridesai Of course. You hit the nail on the head. I am continually amazed at the lack of eduction in the space about what happened in art (or computing) before 2021. Although I wonder to what extent similar dynamics took place in Warhol's NYC and this now is a generational repeat.

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@thefunnyguysNFT @G4SP4RD @Crypt0xParadigm @ik80 @andreasgysin This is such a hidden treasure! These days I have become an archaeologist, trying to find obscure collections before Raster gets to them 🤠

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@RaoulGMI @raster_art @derekedws @Collab_Currency Raster and the team behind it rock! 🪨

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@scrptdfntsy Very well said. That's why it's worth attending larger fairs for me - it helps contextualize where digital fits. Digital & algorithmic may be posed to benefit from the generational shift from boomer collectors to millennials and Gen Z which is still unfolding.

[Interface gallery @Interface_art]

In 1968, when computers were still seen as cold calculating machines, Jasia Reichardt curated an extraordinary exhibition in London called Cybernetic Serendipity. Artists, engineers, poets and scientists came together to explore the creative possibilities at the intersection of art and technology.The result was something remarkably ahead of its time. If you're curious about the early days of the relationship between computers and art, the catalogue is essential reading. The catalogue from Cybernetic Serendipity is filled with ideas, experiments and reflections that feel surprisingly relevant in our current AI era. You can read the full PDF for free here:
https://t.co/Kon6XD8ayE Highly recommended! Take your time with it. thanks @monalisa for the tip!

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@RaoulGMI @thefunnyguysNFT Raster gets better all the time! I trust it now more than the older alternative that’s full of copymints 😇

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@nodefnd "CryptoPunks launched on June 23, 2017" ? Didn't the Mashable article about them publish on June 16, 2017? IYKYK 😎

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@jared_poz Be an outstanding master of their craft like @kimasendorf and @harmvddorpel

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@titojankowski @zancan @XCOPYART Check out John Gerrard, especially his Petro National series

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

If you are willing to throw Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol under the same bus, the critique makes some sense. Duchamp trying to create hype and outrage with a urinal? Warhol mass producing celebrity portraits with no conceptual heft? Beeple’s celebrity dogs pooping AI filtered polaroids? Otherwise it reads like sour grapes by conservative gate keepers.

[Anna Leven @ForgetDali]

In his essay Mona Lisa to monogrid on @lerandomart, Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez sets Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and @kimasendorf's monogrid as direct counterpoints, positioning the latter not simply as part of the digital era, but as one of the works that defines its aesthetic and cements pixel as a building block of our time.

So what's pixel sorting? A thread 🧵👇

[Ivan 🟥 🟩 ⬛ 🟪 @ivan_d]

@ArtOnBlockchain @ArtBasel So well said, Erick! You are too humble to mention that some of the artists in Zero 10 came to prominence thanks to Art Blocks. You are a pillar of this community!