John F Simon Jr

New collection of AI enhanced sketches on Expanded Art:

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Noahbolanowski In fact I am still buying vintage 280c laptops and keeping the original pieces running 27 years later.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@madbutter6 Details look good - would love to see it in person

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@madbutter6 Looks amazing!

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

A useful addition to NFT aggregation and organization! Bravo @thefunnyguysNFT and @raster_art

[Raster @raster_art]

Introducing… Raster!

A new digital art marketplace from @0xmetaclass and @thefunnyguysNFT.

We’re making art collecting delightful by solving digital art's biggest headache: fragmentation.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@raster_art @0xmetaclass @thefunnyguysNFT Thank you for this project! A much needed contribution to the community.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@TacyTurnh @figure31 Not just ‘more images than you imagine’ but ‘more than you CAN imagine’

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@oopheliagame 😂

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Noahbolanowski keeping the history live!

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

Generative Hardware: Past & Present

▫️‘LCD 1’ (2022) by Andreas Gysin | Produced with Kunsthalle Zürich
▫️'Color Panel v1.0' (1999) by John F. Simon, Jr. | SFMoMa, Whitney, Guggenheim, & Brooklyn Museum Collections

The first generations of two artworks - over 20 years apart.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Beardcoded https://t.co/ESVXDzQQnj

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Beardcoded Cool. Will be great to see you. It is 11am-12 noon eastern time.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

ComplexCity having a moment in “Algorithmic Generations: A Genealogical Journey Through Generative Art” - the latest exhibit at Art Blocks Gallery in Marfa, Texas!

[Art Blocks @artblocks_io]

@lerandomart

[Art Blocks @artblocks_io]

“Algorithmic Generations: A Genealogical Journey Through Generative Art” is the latest exhibit at our Art Blocks Gallery in Marfa, Texas!

🖋️ Curated by @lerandomart, this exhibition explores generative art’s evolution from early pioneers to today’s innovators.

✨ Featuring works by: @REAS, @HerbertWFranke, @pointline_, @heyjeres , @Every_Icon, @juanpvallejo_, @Licia_He, @lovidlovid, @mayaonthenet, @newrafael, and Vera Molnár with @martingrasser

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@CSA2D7 raises some points I have thought about for a long time. Searching latent space is the reality of image making Every Icon was reaching for 28 years ago and I am working there every day now finding amazing things.

[█▓▒­░CSA2D7░▒▓█ @CSA2D7]

In blockchain art, there is a strong conceptual connection between john f. simon jr.'s "every icon" and infinite images in latent space, that is waiting to be made / displayed? There's also a nice connection between every icon and pxl dex. Is "every icon" the most influential piece of blockchain art that is simultaneously recognized (in museums) and unrecognized by the market?

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@dmitricherniak @CSA2D7 Although I couldn’t write it at the time, I imagined a program that would search this space more efficiently - search it in a way that would discover coherent icons in the vast noise rather than proceed by brute force counting. 25 years later I can do that in the latent space.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@dmitricherniak @CSA2D7 @dmitricherniak - first let me say how much I admire your work and how much I enjoy the Ringers. Second, I think the distinction you make is true for how Every Icon was implemented. The code I wrote is a binary counter. But for me this was just a demo of possibility space.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

Thank you @CSA2D7 - I just found out a selection of these NFTs, including Every Icon, will be exhibited this spring at Pom Pom Pompidou in Lille, France- as part of the Lille3000 festival - https://t.co/bDjJTti29v

[█▓▒­░CSA2D7░▒▓█ @CSA2D7]

Is there a better feeling for NFT collectors than recognition from the world’s best museums? From the Centre Pompidou’s Poetics of the Immaterial: Jill Magid, Jonas Lund, John F. Simon Jr., and John Gerrard

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@oopheliagame Best of luck!

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Noahbolanowski Yes, @Noahbolanowski , the Guggenheim owns two of my works but the documentation on their website is not up to date. They own and exhibited Color Panel in "Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice,"
March 18–May 16, 2004, curated by Jon Ippolito

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

Thank you for the memories, @Noahbolanowski - putting together the Color Panel v1.0 edition cost around $12,000 in 1999 - about one year’s rent for me - and luckily Sandra Gering sold out the edition in two weeks. Buying 15+ laptops to rip apart was risky and fun #artappliance

[NB @Noahbolanowski]

The Most Institutionally Collected Digital Artwork: 'Color Panel v1.0' (1999) by John F. Simon, Jr.

"..a painting that would change continually & never repeat itself..an experiment in dynamic painting.”

Collected by SFMoMa, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, & Brooklyn Museum.

[John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon]

@Noahbolanowski There were no departments for digital works at museums in 1999 so the quick adoption surprised us. At the Whitney it was acquired by the Painting and Drawing committee, I think because of its references to color field painting.