AutoEclectus 🦜

🦜 Procedural code-based artist • Tiny green parrot

[AutoEclectus 🦜 @autoeclectus]

@carreras_anna Beautiful!

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@thisis0xbenj @ontologicalrat All good here. I’ve been in a bit of a creative culdesac! Must remedy that …
Keep up the good work !

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@editart_xyz @pifragile Oh no! Very sad news.

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@mattmedved Great article! Agree with @fridgebuzz_art tho - it is kinda sad for artists.

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@thisis0xbenj Get better soon!

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@mattdesl I love the optimism of believing that we will still have a “human in the loop” in Gen art. Engaging art is that which is a window into the inner world of a human. The inner world of a computer is bland by comparison.

[0xbenj🥨 @thisis0xbenj]

Even tho I'm now a software developer, I studied electrical engineering at uni. I wasn't the best at it, but I ended up developing a love for the visuals of circuit diagrams and PCB layouts.

Forma Systemica is my homage to this visual.

Tomorrow 17/12 2pm CET @editart_xyz

[EditArt @editart_xyz]

dropping tomorrow on @editart_xyz, the 54th series of 'generative playground' (gp54):

‘Forma Systemica’
by
@thisis0xbenj

128 editions
5xtz

wednesday, december 17 @ 2pm cet

"Inspired by networks and grid systems."

[obtainer @obtainer]

got lots of requests for lenticular app/code, so i spent more hours then im willing to admit trying to make it usable.

open-sourcing it + dropping the web app, have fun!

[AutoEclectus 🦜 @autoeclectus]

@nudoru @camillerouxart @fx_hash_ Similar in Australia. All crypto income is subject to income tax at the value of the coin at the time it was earned. Plus every crypto sale attracts capital gains tax so you need to track the historical purchase and sale price for every swap.

[AutoEclectus 🦜 @autoeclectus]

@dist_cs I’m always excited to hear what you guys are up to!

[Jos Vromans @JosVromans]

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[Harvey Rayner @harvey_rayner]

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6 Fontanas sales yesterday!

[0xbenj🥨 @thisis0xbenj]

Memory bank
#p5js #wip

[AutoEclectus 🦜 @autoeclectus]

@CCDDBB Thanks for such a considered post and for sparking some great discourse. I too am cautious and to be frank don’t really understand the tokenomics behind it all but willing to learn and see how it goes. I miss the simplicity of Hic et Nunc days but you can’t look backwards!

[Harvey Rayner @harvey_rayner]

Longform code based art is a very unique beast within the kingdom of all artforms. It needs to be presented, collected and minted in ways authentic to the unique way it is created. When it is presented and sold alongside other crypto art 1of1s and AI collections it starts to get forced into limitations, containers and comparisons that do not favor its unique form.

A well crafted longform algo needs a large supply in order to tell its full story. If this means selling at a much more affordable mint price then so be it. We need to always start with the question: what is best for the art? - Not with: how do we shape this to fit market trends. If an algo has deep variety it should be allowed to fully express itself.

Releasing smaller collections or even 1of1s and placing art with private sales to influential collectors has become the norm. In terms of playing the art career game this makes perfect sense. Where it doesn’t feel right to me at least, is that it is a movement back towards the exclusive, opaque art market Web3 art helped to disrupt and revolutionize.

Maybe I'm just being idealistic, but I feel a real sustainable code based art market could be quite different from the traditional blue chip model. Something that sits somewhere between the music and art markets that enables millions more people to engage with the art they find meaningful, support the artists they love and also own unique work from those artists for the price of say a concert ticket. It may not feel as attractive if all we care about is investment, but in terms of creating community, and making art something that's accessible to more people, Web3 + code based art has something beautiful to offer the world.

This is something very different from the future promised by bag pumping crypto bros. That future can still exist, but art is vast and there may be many thriving art markets in the future, that fulfil different roles.

Amplitudes of Canvas coming to @artblocks_io Studio in August.

[AutoEclectus 🦜 @autoeclectus]

@harvey_rayner I like the way you’re thinking Harvey !