0xDEAFBEEF

Generative audiovisual art.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

Announcing Glitchbox, the sculpture. SOUND ON 🔊

Premiering July 12 at @ToledoMuseum in
Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, curated by @juliaxgulia

Glitchbox began in 2021 as an early programmable NFT: a generative audiovisual system with parameters modifiable via on-chain transactions.

Through an arduous transformation, at the cost of sweat and sanity, Glitchbox now takes a corporeal form of forged iron and electronics.

A fully interactive audiovisual synthesizer, inviting audience members to touch and manipulate tactile controls in a real-time sensory experience.

Glitchbox has many facets (some would say six) thematically that I'll try to get into over time: labour, craft, generative systems as cybernetic systems existing beyond purely digital/virtual as embodied sensual experiences, and the significance of these themes in an era of generative AI.

[ArtMeta @artmetaofficial]

Digital Art Summit 2026 | ACT 02

Craft in the Age of AI
June 15, 2026 | 11:00 - 11:25 CET

When generation becomes effortless, what is left of craft? Not as nostalgia, but as a live question between two practitioners who have located it in different places.

0xDEAFBEEF writes raw C from first principles — no libraries, no shortcuts — where the source itself is the work and constraint is the medium. Seth Goldstein composes with AI agents, where the craft moves upstream into the system itself: what gets generated, what gets shown, what gets refused. Both treat code as material. Both work the constraint. They differ in where the signal originates. Together they ask what craft demands when the hardest part is no longer the making.

Speakers:
▫️ @_deafbeef, Artist (Canada)
▫️ @seth, Founder, @spiritagents (United States)

[Ragnar Digital @ragnar_art]

St Vincent college president giving (what I think is) a Roman Verostko work to the Pope earlier this month.

[Asprey Studio @AspreyStudio]

June has arrived - two weeks until the opening of @ArtBasel in Basel 2026 🔥

At the core of the presentation are ‘Synth Poems’ (2021-26) by @_deafbeef, a series of on-chain generative audiovisual works, each paired with one physical sculpture (‘Oscilloscope’) in forged iron by the artist himself.

Each digital Synth Poem piece is created at the moment of minting from a unique hash, producing distinct combinations of tempo, timbre, pitch, and structure. While primarily sonic, each work is accompanied by a visualisation derived directly from its audio signal, referencing early vector displays and oscilloscope imagery.

The physical sculptures are inspired by analogue oscilloscopes, a type of electronic test instrument introduced in the late 19th-century that graphically displays varying voltages of signals as a function of time. Oscilloscopes are used in many different disciplines, including medicine, engineering and telecommunications.

For historical context, the ‘Synth Poem: Oscilloscopes’ are presented along with two original prints by mathematician and artist Ben Laposky (1914–2000), who in the 1950s used an analogue oscilloscope to manipulate electronic waves into visual forms, pioneering early experiments in signal-based abstraction.

Read more via our website - link in bio - and visit us at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Switzerland
16–21 June 2026

Images: 0xDEAFBEEF, Synth Poem: Oscilloscope, 2026, Forged iron, electronics, generative art
Ben Laposky, Oscillon 16, 1953, Vintage silver gelatin print. Courtesy of DEAFBEEF and Asprey Studio.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@NedRyersonBing @JBeanstorm 500 pressed, 425 sold, 75 remaining

[Heft @heft_gallery]

If you missed it at the show last night... we’re selling Limited Edition @_deafbeef vinyls in the gallery and at the link below.

Join us for more shows and performances in our TRANSMISSIONS series, through this weekend until June 12 - book on our website (click TRANSMISSIONS).

https://t.co/s1piz9c9Zp

[✨Tacyturn.eth.tez✨ - ( 📐,📏) @TacyTurnh]

I'm very proud of the @_deafbeef physical artefacts I collected over the years ...
Each one is meaningful with his Art &Craft and myself : Sound/ComputerScience/Forge/Communication
- LP vinyl
- HASHMARK
- PAYPHONE token
- 2 zirconium rings
- stickers !

[Asprey Studio @AspreyStudio]

“Invited to dive into the LACMA archives, I was immediately drawn to the chronophotographic work of Muybridge. In the 19th century, he developed new techniques to enable serial photography of people and animals in motion — images with an enigmatic quality that have been widely influential.” — @_deafbeef on his ‘Chronophotograph’ collection.

Part of Asprey Studio’s presentation at @artbasel Zero 10 in Basel, opening on 16 June 2026, is ‘Chronophotographs’ by 0xDEAFBEEF, a series of procedurally generated images seeded by the block number, depicting figurative and abstract motion in different phases.

Where pioneering English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) used sequential photography to analyse movement frame by frame, 0xDEAFBEEF translates this logic into blockchain-based systems. Blockchain, like chronophotography, operates as a time-based medium, with new blocks added approximately every twelve seconds.The block number at the precise moment of observation becomes the seed for the procedural generation of the image, producing snapshots of forms across phases of motion — digital chronophotographs embedded in time.

This collection encourages reflections on the perception of time, consensus reality, photography and blockchain as markers of time, as sources of objective truth, and their limitations therein.

Chronophotographs are each unique, randomly generated at the time of “observation”. The collection size is theoretically infinite — but our lifespans are finite.

Read more via our website — link in bio — and visit us at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
16–21 June 2026.

Images: 1. 0xDEAFBEEF, Chronophotographs #226, 2023, 1/1 platinum-Palladium photographic print paired with 1/1 digital artwork minted on blockchain
2. Eadweard Muybridge, detail of ‘Bouquet’, Galloping, 1887. Collotype on paper. Courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@Noahbolanowski 😂 I wouldn't risk it

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

They're kind of cute all bundled up

[Asprey Studio @AspreyStudio]

An interactive, user programmable generative glitch music sculpture is coming to Zero 10 at @artbasel in Basel in 3 weeks ⚒️👾🎮

A central element of Asprey Studio’s presentation by artist, musician, engineer, and blacksmith @_deafbeef in Basel is ‘Glitchbox’ (2021–25) by, a major interactive sculpture derived from the artist’s generative token series.

Conceived as a programmable audiovisual instrument with handcrafted forged iron elements entirely crafted by the artist himself, ‘Glitchbox’ allows participants to manipulate parameters — analogous to the knobs and switches of a modular synthesizer — generating continuously evolving audiovisual compositions in real time.

Each interaction changes what is seen and heard, positioning the artwork as a dynamic and participatory system rather than a fixed object. In parallel, the forged iron structure retains visible traces of labour and process, introducing material presence, imperfection, and individuality into generative systems.

Come create an immutable artwork at Booth Z3, Zero 10, Messe Basel, Messeplatz 10, 4058 Basel, Switzerland, from 16–21 June 2026.

Images: Details of ‘Glitchbox’, hand-forged iron, electronics, generative code

[seth goldstein @seth]

"the machine got faster. the craft didn't get easier."

i'm having a conversation in a few weeks with @_deafbeef on craft in the age of AI.

basel · june 15 · digital art summit.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

https://t.co/Cosiy3OtX8

[Heft @heft_gallery]

Wed May 27, 6:30 - 9:00pm Casual, community seated viewing of four works + CLOUDS BYO : ) Register here:
https://t.co/Rwn3kU735x

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

In 2022 I made a vinyl LP. Fifty copies (of the remaining 75) will be available in person at @heft_gallery in support of TRANSMISSION event on May 27th 6:30pm, showing rarely screened audiovisual works from myself and @yoshi_sodeoka @zachlieberman @NateMohlerArt on custom listening system and projection. If you're in NYC, check it out. Details below.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

@izebel_eth If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. ― Frank Zappa

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

Now in its sixth year(!) @_deafbeef Synth Poems keep unfolding.

The animation was never a music video. It was the waveform itself - an audiovisual ghost of sound drawing its own body.

Now that ghost has taken physical form.

Sound on.

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

I'm assembling a team

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

https://t.co/zdYIK290N5

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

PSA: objects are elements of systems

[0xDEAFBEEF @_deafbeef]

Minted my Heft circle @ganbrood 🤍
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