The Digital Asset Museum's GENESIS Viewing Gallery
GENESIS is the inaugural collection from The Digital Asset Museum – a focused curatorial effort to capture the spirit and depth of the emerging digital art movement at this point in history.
This collection marks the beginning of a permanent, museum-led effort to preserve the artists, ideas, and aesthetics defining this moment in digital art.
– 55 curated artists, each contributing one iconic artwork to the collection.
– A full-set minting opportunity on Ethereum Mainnet – all GENESIS artworks are sold together in a single transaction; the collector receives a complete set of 55 individual ERC-721 tokens.
– 0.6942 ETH mint price for the full set of 55 individually numbered ERC-721 artworks.
–> For example, full set #5 has a #5 listed after each artwork in the set. Full set #45 has a #45 listed after each artwork in the set, etc.
– The public mint concluded on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, at 12:00pm EST at thedam.art/genesis – 48-hour timed edition mint format.
– Total collection supply is 2,695 (49 full sets).
– All artworks in GENESIS have been added to The Digital Asset Museum's Permanent Collection.
– IRL exhibition of GENESIS artworks with full artist attribution during THE DAM’s Grand Opening program in Q1 2026.
– Permanent archival of all participating artists on THE DAM website, including artist bios, statements, and historical metadata.
The Digital Asset Museum Vision & Mission Article (100,000+ views):
https://x.com/Satoshis_Mom/status/1917972359828427149 The Digital Asset Museum's GENESIS Artworks
Artwork Description:
after awakening,
nothing.
a vast, open hush
where I once was.
no self,
no sound,
just
the endless
breath
of space.
and in that
colossal emptiness,
I found the light.
Extended Artist Statement:
My work is a visual reflection of the emotional and spiritual landscapes we all move through but often struggle to name. Growing up between the structure of architecture and the fluidity of painting, I was deeply shaped by the contrast between order and emotion, control and vulnerability. Through digital art, I merge these energies technical precision with raw feeling to create spaces that feel both intimate and expansive. Symbols, especially the eye, recur throughout my work as gateways to perception, connection, and truth. They are not just visual elements, but mirrors for the unseen parts of ourselves.
Artist Bio:
Jesper is a Dutch digital artist whose work explores the intersection of emotion, self-inquiry, and the unseen patterns that shape human experience. Blending abstract forms with spiritual and cultural influences, his art invites reflection and conscious engagement in the digital age.
Artwork Description:
Abiogenesis is a meditative pixel art piece exploring the metaphor of life's origins through the birth of a single pixel. Set within a tranquil, greenish-blue pond, the artwork reimagines the concept of primordial creation where stillness gives way to movement, and existence unfolds from nothingness. Here, water becomes more than a setting; it’s the primordial canvas where energy first finds form.
Renowned in the pixel art community as a master of water ripples and reflections, I designed this piece using seven distinct layers of animated water behavior, each with its own unique reflection style. The artwork is a 20-frame, hand-drawn animated GIF that loops seamlessly, built with a limited palette of just 15 carefully chosen colors. This controlled palette and layered animation technique create a deep visual richness while maintaining the minimalist integrity of pixel art. Abiogenesis is both an aesthetic and technical exploration, a reflection on how life, like art, begins with a single point of emergence.
Extended Artist Statement:
My artistic practice is rooted in the belief that simplicity can carry profound emotional and philosophical weight. Through the medium of pixel art, I explore themes like nostalgia, nature, memory, and the impermanence of moments often distilling entire narratives into looping animations made from just a handful of colors. I approach each frame with a meditative care, treating the pixel not just as a unit of light or color, but as a living element capable of evoking mood, motion, and meaning. I work with limited palettes to challenge myself creatively and to draw attention to the emotional power of restraint.
In Abiogenesis, I reflect on creation itself both biological and digital. The pond is more than water; it’s a metaphor for the unknown, for potential, and for emergence. By using seven hand-animated layers of water ripples, each with a distinct reflection style, I wanted to mimic the complexity hidden in simplicity mirroring how life might have begun from a single cell, or in my case, a single pixel. This piece is not just a celebration of technical craft, but a quiet homage to the awe of beginning, to the silent moment where something, for the first time, becomes.
Artist Bio:
Anas Abdin is a crypto pixel artist known for his intricate animated loops, mastery of water ripples, reflections, and evocative storytelling through minimal palettes. His work often explores themes of nature, memory, and existential wonder, transforming tiny pixels into immersive emotional landscapes.
"The whereabouts of birds at dusk and the flowing stars" by A-Mashiro
Artwork Description:
My digital journey, which began in the latter half of 2021, started with this style of work. Simple lines and a few colors. When I create a piece, I think about the center of gravity. When lines are in the right place and colors are in the right place, the work becomes a work of art. And that gives me a sense of calm.
Extended Artist Statement:
With the advent of NFTs, many artists have gained the opportunity to create new history. I believe this is a huge change in the world of art. It remains to be seen whether this new history will blend with existing history or grow separately, but one thing is certain: artists now have new avenues for creative expression.
Artist Bio:
A-Mashiro is a traditional and digital artist based in Tokyo. He grew up in a Japanese house with over 200 years of history, where traditional Japanese culture was naturally integrated into his everyday environment. The rich natural surroundings also had a significant influence on his creativity, which is strongly reflected in his current works.
Artwork Description:
In a period of your life where you're making important decisions. After a long wait, You're unsure whether this is truly where you want to be or not.
Extended Artist Statement:
Through my art, I keep a crypto art journal.
Artist Bio:
King Xerox is a digital artist and trained architect who entered the world of crypto art in 2021. His works have been auctioned at prestigious houses like Sotheby’s and exhibited in numerous locations around the world.
Artwork Description:
The journey begins where thoughts grow quiet and colors fill the air. Soft green waves move beneath the boat and bubbles rise like tiny stars. The Lightveil waits ahead a glowing mist, gentle and still. The child and cat sail through it wrapped in a calm that hums like a quiet song. Each stroke of the oar leaves a trail of light carrying them into a place where dreams meet the day.
Extended Artist Statement:
As Loulanweu, I create visual worlds that reimagine space and bend reality through abstract curves and a playful touch. My practice revolves around storytelling without rigid boundaries where forms flow freely, perspectives shift, and the surreal becomes soft and inviting rather than disorienting. Drawing on personal memory, childlike wonder and quiet cosmic energy, I construct imagined environments that feel both unfamiliar and emotionally resonant.
Rather than depict the world as it is, I’m interested in how it might feel if we remembered it differently or dreamed it anew. Whether through fluid architecture, floating vessels or symbolic companions, my work is a gentle rebellion against logic and gravity. It opens up space for slowness, curiosity, and inner exploration. Each piece becomes a kind of map one that leads not to answers but to places where the viewer can wander, drift and discover their own meaning.
Artist Bio:
Loulan is a visual storyteller reimagining space and bending reality through abstract forms, surreal motion and playful narratives. Invites viewers into dreamlike realms where curiosity, memory and emotion drift freely.
Artwork Description:
Beneath the pixelated downpour, a silent car finds solace, its warm glow a beacon in the cool, urban night. A quiet moment suspended in time, where the city whispers secrets and every raindrop tells a story of unspoken longing
Extended Artist Statement:
I should start by saying I'm not a professional artist; my background is actually in programming. For years, though, art has been my all-consuming hobby, taking up every spare moment.
My process always begins with a photograph – or sometimes a combination of them. I then manually reconstruct these images, pixel by painstaking pixel, before breathing life into them with algorithms and code. In fact, I even developed my own software to do this; it was both a fascinating challenge and something I had the skills to accomplish.
What I love about pixel art is its ability to engage our subconscious, allowing us to 'complete' the scenes in our minds. By integrating contemporary programming technologies, I've found a way to animate these works, resulting in a uniquely realistic feel that truly resonates and evokes authentic emotions in the viewer.
Artist Bio:
I'm deeply passionate about pixel art and find immense joy in bringing a sense of calm and serenity to others through my work. My pieces are where art and technology beautifully intertwine.
Artwork Description:
I want this to feel like a memory, or dream you’re not sure you had.
Extended Artist Statement:
I approach AI not as a shortcut, but as a collaborator—curating chaos, refining randomness, and shaping each piece through an obsessive, iterative process. My work is rooted in nostalgia, internet culture, and spatial storytelling, with the goal of evoking emotional resonance through ambient movement, uncanny architecture, and subtle sonic textures.
Artist Bio:
I'm a multidisciplinary artist and art director exploring the strange, bizarre edges of AI-assisted imagery and animation. My background spans 3D design, branding, and motion graphics, but my current focus is on creating surreal, looping environments that blur the line between memory, dream, and simulation.
Artwork Description:
Created on 4" x 6" watercolor paper using paper and glue. Paper source is 'The Dore Bible Illustrations'.
Physical work will remain custodied by artist. DAM may sell, donate, raffle, or otherwise use the physical upon approval by artist. If this occurs metadata will be updated on all editions to reflect change in custody of physical work.
Extended Artist Statement:
What is the value of NFTs for analog work? The answer I have found can be many things: enabling multiple owners through editions, the ability for the artist to predefine how small works can be displayed larger, a timestamped authentication which will become ever more essential as AI deep fakes continue to challenge our knowledge of what is 'real', and the ability to use smart contracts to add aspects to sale functions or interactive mechanics to a work. These are just some of the important value-adds that NFTs create for analog creators such as myself.
While this Digital Renaissance continues to grow there will inevitably be people who question participants who create in more traditional means taking part in it; however it is the very flexibility of how we can use this technology that is why I foresee it becoming an eventual necessity to the traditional creators like myself.
Artist Bio:
Pseudoanonymous appalachian analog collage artist.
Submission #13: "⟁𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙸𝙶𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙸𝚂 𝙼𝙴⟁" by MaNiC
Artwork Description:
Painted in pulses,
shaped by signals,
unrecognizable but real.
Extended Artist Statement:
As a bipolar artist, I turn chaos into color, embracing every high and every low to reveal the beauty in being different and the power of creating through it all.
Artist Bio:
ᴇ𝚡ᴘᴇʀɪ-ᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ ɪɴᴛᴜɪᴛɪᴠᴇ ꜱᴘᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴇᴏᴜꜱ ᴇ𝚡ᴘʀᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴɪꜱᴛ.
Artwork Description:
Mario endlessly outrunning the collapse of the world around him.
Extended Artist Statement:
This piece imagines Mario not just running through a level, but running from it, as if the world he’s in is breaking down behind him. I was inspired by the feeling of digital overload and the ways old games could feel both playful and also dreamlike. The ground collapses, the side glitches out, and everything starts to unravel into chaos.
I like using familiar characters and settings to explore what happens when systems fail. There’s something interesting about taking something so structured, like a classic Mario level, and letting it fall apart. But also looping it endlessly, so it feels like you're stuck in a dream where escape always seems just out of reach.
Artist Bio:
High Contrast // High Saturation //Gif Alchemist 🧙♂️// Futurist // Maker of 🤌 Loops //
Artwork Description:
Your personality is a filepath now
Extended Artist Statement:
/dev/null/autonomy/raw.dump
Artwork Description:
Digital oil 5906x7087 px Gregorio Zanardi 2025
Extended Artist Statement:
Gregorio Zanardi (b. 2001) is a visual artist who has been working full-time in painting and illustration since 2022. From an early age, he developed a deep passion for drawing, gradually shaping a personal and instinctive visual language. Raised in a family environment attuned to art, he was strongly influenced by the work of his uncle, Matias Tejeda, a painter from Córdoba. Tejeda’s recurring use of cigarettes as a visual element left a lasting impression on Zanardi’s imagination.
Zanardi approaches painting as a space of freedom, play, and personal exploration. His works deliberately blend unease and beauty, creating a tension between aesthetic harmony and a subtle sense of discomfort. This contrast, between balanced forms and unsettling content, is the driving force behind his artistic research. Rather than adhering to rigid compositional rules, his creative process seeks to balance instinct and intention, allowing the unconscious to guide the expression in pursuit of a visual language that is both authentic and powerful.
Artist Bio:
Visual artist born in 2000 Argentina. He has been drawing since he can remember, at 18 he sold his first paintings of 20x20 cm and clothes intervened by him. At 21 he entered the NFT world and decided to dedicate himself full time to visual art. Influenced by his painter uncle, many of his themes deal with faces full of nostalgia and reflection, many old people and the cigarette that represents a sign for him, a relative sign that can range from lust to the deepest reflection. Today he experiments in digital art with procreate and at the same time in physical painting, combining oil and acrylic on canvases up to 100x120 cm.
"Study of Wojak and a Falling Mirror" by Lors
Artwork Description:
Feeling eludes articulation.
Digital artwork, 9000 x 8000 px.
Extended Artist Statement:
Lors is an experimental artist who works across disciplines, using internet culture as a medium. Avoiding strict categorization, their practice embraces minimalism, study of form and space, simplification, abstraction, and patterns, among other visual languages. Much of their work draws from memes and digital artifacts, treating them as raw material for creative discovery.
Recurring figures such as Pepe the Frog, Wojak, and Rage Comics function as cultural canvases, serving as platforms for reinterpretation, transformation, and subtle commentary. Rather than adhering to a single style or medium, Lors engages in an open-ended process of exploration, combining diverse techniques, tools, and technologies to investigate form, meaning, and the evolving codes of the internet age while documenting the spirit of our time.
Artist Bio:
Lors is an experimental artist working across disciplines, using internet culture as a medium to explore minimalism, geometry, and digital symbolism. Their work repurposes memes and online artifacts as tools for abstraction, commentary, and the documentation of contemporary culture.
Artwork Description:
I'm happy as I am
Cause I'm leaving
Days will be the same
In a different way
Going to a place
Where I used to stay
Writing something new
In this home I know
We'll be all right
Stay here some time
This country dog
Won't die in the city
"Tailwhip - Men I trust"
Extended Artist Statement:
I am a visual storyteller at heart, and I prefer when the viewer creates a story or narrative of their own, when looking at my work.
My collage-style captures a surreal and dramatic narrative by blending everyday elements with striking natural phenomenon.
The juxtaposition of a quiet suburban scene with a towering tornado was meant to create a sense of tension and unreality. While making this piece I really tried to evoke a mix of curiosity and unease.
I am hoping you the viewer might wonder about the story behind this scene: Is this a real moment captured, or a metaphor for something deeper?
The calm of a suburban setting—unchallenged by any human presence—was meant to feel eerie in the face of the tornado’s approach, creating a narrative tension.
hope you enjoy!
OAK //
Artist Bio:
Canadian Collage artist. Dedicated father and husband. Gifted napper.
Artwork Description:
a group of business people collaborate on building a stack of technology.
Extended Artist Statement:
Jacobtheape is a digital artist exploring themes of identity, technology, and contemporary culture through the medium of crypto art. Their work often delves into the intersections of digital existence and human experience, utilizing platforms like SuperRare and Foundation to showcase unique pieces that challenge and engage viewers.
Through a blend of AI, digital illustration, 3D modeling, and animation, Jacobtheape crafts immersive experiences that reflect the complexities of the modern world. Their art invites viewers to question the boundaries between the virtual and the real, encouraging a deeper contemplation of the evolving digital landscape.
Artist Bio:
Jacobtheape is a digital artist exploring themes of identity, technology, and contemporary culture through the medium of crypto art. Their work often delves into the intersections of digital existence and human experience.
Artwork Description:
In Case Of An Investigation...
Extended Artist Statement:
Rare Scrilla is a multidisciplinary artist and music producer whose work lives at the intersection of sound, Bitcoin technology, and internet culture. With roots in underground hip-hop and a deep engagement with digital ownership, Scrilla often uses Bitcoin not just as a tool, but as a canvas—favoring its permanence and ethos over the noise of broader crypto trends. His art fuses beat-driven compositions, memetic symbolism, and on-chain mechanics to create works that are both culturally charged and verifiably scarce.
Central to Scrilla’s practice is a commitment to decentralization, freedom of expression, and creative sovereignty. He positions himself as an anti-influencer in a space often overrun by hype and grift—choosing instead to build with integrity, critique from within, and stay grounded in the values that made the movement meaningful in the first place.
Artist Bio:
Rare Scrilla is a cryptoartist and music producer blending sound, blockchain, and meme culture to create bold, thought-provoking digital works. His art explores the edges of ownership, storytelling, and underground culture in the evolving world of crypto.
"The Desert Of Imitations" by Tù.úk'z
Artwork Description:
Thirty counterfeit suns hover over a plastic desert, screaming fluorescent lies, cosmic candy spun from the corpse of reality, selling ecstatic nothingness in one blinding hit.
Extended Artist Statement:
Tù.úk’z is the shimmer that erupts when a computer dreams in glitches. Born in Brazil and hacking pixels since 2012, he bends ai, collage, code, sound, and paint into living mirages that drift through galleries on five continents. His work mutates like weather, one moment neon delirium, the next cryptic shadow, yet it orbits the same triple star: Dream, illusion, and shadow. Imagine an error screen singing; that’s the pulse behind every piece he releases.
Artist Bio:
i am ambivalent about art despite the fact that I see it as a central aspect of my obsession. the lack of distinction between the real and the virtual.
Artwork Description:
“Bodhisattva” is a key idea in Buddhism. The word is constructed from the Sanskrit root bodhi, meaning “awakening” or “enlightenment,” and sattva, meaning “being.” The core meaning of the word is “a being who is on the way to becoming enlightened.”
This work was made entirely in Microsoft Paint.
Extended Artist Statement:
My name is khwampa, and I am from Uttarakhand, India, which lies on the Southern Slope of the Himalayan range. My work is an unapologetic declaration of maximalism, overstimulation, and chaos, where every piece can be seen as a psychedelic maze of swirling colors and abstract forms at first glance. Deep within, each work is a digital archaeological site where imagination is buried and constantly converses with serendipitous forms that occurred at the moment of creation, digital brushstrokes, accumulated textures, accidental mark-making, and cultural motifs and stories.
Artist Bio:
khwampa | non local consciousness
"Artifact of the Elusive Control" by Slava3ngl
Artwork Description:
Forged in echoes of ancient stone, the totem hums with lost songs—its screens murmur hollow omens as a wayward envoy of the seeker sways in silent longing, its unspoken will ever near yet ever out of reach, the artifact inside locked in the amber of time.
A dance of almosts, eternally unwhole.
/ 1080x1080 pix / GIF / 88 Frames / Slava3ngl 2025.
Extended Artist Statement:
My artistic practice thrives on channeling imagination into the digital realm, where I experiment with GIFs, animations, and glitch aesthetics to craft vivid, accessible narratives. Across my portfolio—spanning exhibitions, video visuals for music shows, album covers, and even clothing designs—I explore multiple stylistic approaches, blending diverse techniques to produce varied, dynamic graphics that connect with audiences worldwide.
In "Artifact of the Elusive Control," I dive into the interplay of order and unpredictability, a thread woven through my creative experiments. This piece captures the fragile dance of control within a digital landscape, where structure shifts into chaos, inviting viewers to reflect on the fluid nature of human experience and discover personal meaning in its rhythm and motion.
Artist Bio:
Slava 3ngl (Triangle)- is a digital artist who explores the fusion of digital storytelling and dynamic visuals, crafting energetic GIFs, animations, and glitch-inspired works infused with surrealism and looping narratives that always end where they begin. With a growing presence in exhibitions and projects, Slava’s art merges imagination and technology, delivering simple, universal stories that resonate with diverse audiences worldwide.
Artwork Description:
It started with a mark scratched into stone, lit by fire.
Each generation added to it. Symbols became stories,
stories became paintings, paintings became pixels.
Now we write with light and store it on-chain.
The ladder we climb isn’t just history it’s proof we were here.
From cave walls to code, our legacy continues.
Extended Artist Statement:
As a multi-dimensional artist, I create pixel art rooted in nostalgia, drawing from retro games, classic tech, and the aesthetics of past eras. But I don’t just revisit the past—I reshape it. My work blends memory with imagination, using pixel art as a tool to explore deeper themes like identity, technology, and the unknown. Every piece is a reflection of where we’ve been and a question about where we’re going.
I aim to elevate pixel art beyond its nostalgic roots and into the realm of respected fine art. To me, each pixel is intentional—a brushstroke of digital history. Whether I’m channeling the energy of old arcades or coding new forms of visual storytelling, my mission is to make pixel art undeniable, collectible, and impossible to overlook in the broader art world.
Artist Bio:
Sachcoo the Arty is a multi-dimensional artist who creates pixel art that ventures into the unknown, aiming to elevate the medium to its rightful place in the art world.
Artwork Description:
Static yet limitless, In Orbit freezes a blockchain maze mid-breath. Luminous data blocks lock into concentric rings while mirrored portals fold the gaze back on itself, echoing the artist’s feeling of living in an endless loop. Circuit traces mingle with star-dust, merging space, technology and cryptographic memory into a single zero-gravity tableau.
Extended Artist Statement:
My practice inhabits between tactile reality and immaterial code.
I draw on my background in industrial design and crafts to build algorithmic systems that behave like living scenery, structures that breathe, fracture, and remember. Natural geometries, theatrical light, and cryptographic logic converge so that each work can question how we, as networked bodies, navigate time and space when both are increasingly mediated by data streams.
Artist Bio:
Harto (Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spain, 1993) blends his industrial-design roots with theatre and digital craft, creating works that fuse natural forms with cutting-edge tech.
Artwork Description:
Innerland is an ongoing series of portraits capturing artists from around the world—those who dare to look into their own souls and connect with the deepest parts of their psyche.
Depicting a statement that human is more than what we see with our eyes, the project aims to discover an endless world that is held inside, rather than outer facade. Acknowledging that we spend most of our lives within our subconscious—immersed in thoughts, emotions, and dreams—the artist reflects on the paradox of how connected or disconnected from nature each person is, despite being an intrinsic part of it themselves.
Developing a new art genre called ‘Staged Documentary’ and shying away from more classical definition of portrait, human beings are shown as such having no definite borders, and no rational shape. They are continuation of the environment itself, as the environment forms them a lot, and vice versa - they form the environment.
Aiming to build an extensive photographic archive of creatives across various artistic disciplines, Tania perceives her subjects as souls rather than bodies defined by physical attributes. In the eyes of the universe, they all are equal—infinitely deep, boundless, and eternal, existing beyond the constraints of the material world. Her artworks seek to offer an abstract representation of the delicate inner landscape of a human being, pioneering the concept of Inner World Portraiture—a departure from traditional portraiture, where physical appearance often takes center stage.
Extended Artist Statement:
Innerland is an ongoing series of portraits capturing artists from around the world—those who dare to look into their own souls and connect with the deepest parts of their psyche.
Depicting a statement that human is more than what we see with our eyes, the project aims to discover an endless world that is held inside, rather than outer facade. Acknowledging that we spend most of our lives within our subconscious—immersed in thoughts, emotions, and dreams—the artist reflects on the paradox of how connected or disconnected from nature each person is, despite being an intrinsic part of it themselves.
Developing a new art genre called ‘Staged Documentary’ and shying away from more classical definition of portrait, human beings are shown as such having no definite borders, and no rational shape. They are continuation of the environment itself, as the environment forms them a lot, and vice versa - they form the environment.
Aiming to build an extensive photographic archive of creatives across various artistic disciplines, Tania perceives her subjects as souls rather than bodies defined by physical attributes. In the eyes of the universe, they all are equal—infinitely deep, boundless, and eternal, existing beyond the constraints of the material world. Her artworks seek to offer an abstract representation of the delicate inner landscape of a human being, pioneering the concept of Inner World Portraiture—a departure from traditional portraiture, where physical appearance often takes center stage.
Artist Bio:
Synchrodogs is an artist duo from Ukraine: Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven, working together since 2008.
They became winners of PH Museum Photography Prize in 2021 and LensCulture award in 2022, were residents of Skowhegan in 2024.
During 2010-2024 had solo shows in Chicago, London, Barcelona, Milano, Krakow, Venice, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Riga, solo exhibition in Dallas Contemporary museum in 2015. Their works appeared in Numero, Esquire, Vogue, TUSH, Harpers Bazaar, Wall Street Journal, in 2020 their book was published by Louis Vuitton. They also collaborated with Burberry, Swarovski, Kenzo among many others.
Artwork Description:
Pixel-painting GIF, 5 frames, 1920 x 1920 pixels
Extended Artist Statement:
RJ is a self-taught digital artist based in London, working primarily in digital painting and animation. After reading Classics at Cambridge University, he went on to study an MA in Modern Literature and a PhD in contemporary American fiction, with a focus on metamodernism and theories of intertextuality. Following on from the completion of his PhD in 2021, RJ began to explore and practise digital art. Having since taught himself digital painting and animation, his art seeks to explore the ways in which we experience the digital age in which we now live: how the internet affects our sense of self, our bodies and the spaces we inhabit. In doing so, his work embraces the materially of the pixel, and attempts to establish a form of digital painting that leans into the possibilities - and limitations - of the medium.
'The Sickness' - a bathroom scene of a lone figuring apparently vomiting into an open toilet - demonstrates this concept of digital materiality. The distortion and corruption of the pixels used in the painting of the GIF are employed to underline the emotional content of the scene, while the closed captions at the bottom of the image reference those of videos from social media sites such as YouTube and TikTok, filling what is often quotidian with the poetic. Looking back to the expressionists and surrealists in its figuration, 'The Sickness' attempts to build on such a lineage, and to ask how the digital medium might open up new avenues for depictions of the self the existential exploration that comes with it.
Artist Bio:
RJ is a self-taught digital artist, working in digital painting and animation. His work seeks to explore the body and our sense of it in the current digital age.
"𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖘: The Creation Of AI" by SATHAR
Artwork Description:
Inspired by Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, this piece reimagines the divine moment—not as a blessing from god to man, but as a data transfer from human to machine. Rendered in meticulous pixel art and permanently inscribed on the blockchain, it marks a turning point in digital art history: a genesis not of flesh, but of code. The red porcelain skeletons represent the fragility of origin and the permanence of intent—one hand reaching forward, the other designed with six fingers, a deliberate anomaly symbolizing unnatural evolution and the mutation of control.
In an age where intelligence is sculpted, not born, this image captures a paradox we can no longer ignore:
Creation now mirrors us, but does not need us.
Extended Artist Statement:
Sathar in me is the sathar in you
Artist Bio:
SATHAR is a visual artist exploring the intersection of mythology, machine, and mortality through pixel art and digital ritual. His works echo a new folklore—one inscribed not on walls, but on the blockchain.
Artwork Description:
Had my head in the clouds all day
Extended Artist Statement:
looking into the void and pulling out the pieces
Artist Bio:
Photon Tide also known as Pho is a mixed-media artist known for his psychedelic and experimental art style. Pho explores the limits of human consciousness with his dream-inspired series as well as human emotions and what it means to feel.
Pho wants you to not fear what is inside your mind but to embrace it, his artworks have been exhibited in NFT-NYC, Art Basel and sold on Sothebys. Pho has also sold on multiple crypto-native platforms such as Foundation, SuperRare, and most recently through his own contract on Manifold.
Artwork Description:
Forever seeking, a land of pleasure.
3100 x 4100
2025
Extended Artist Statement:
Archie is an Australian visual artist who combines painting, scanography, generative processes and a variety of digital manipulation techniques to create digital abstract art. Influenced by the intricacies of the human mind, psychedelia, and nature, Archie’s art reflects on deep-felt emotions, thoughts, and memories through the therapeutic qualities of experimental abstraction. With an intuitive approach, his work shifts between spontaneous, aesthetically resonant pieces and those that evoke personal experiences and introspective states of mind.
“Dreamstate” is a unique output from Archie’s ongoing image displacement experiments, which often source inputs from photographs and physical painting scans. While the piece presents a surreal, chaotic abstract landscape and the fleeting high of a dreamlike state, a mellow tonal stain and darker fragments mirror recent personal realisations - cycles of escapism, drifting into imagined futures rather than facing the self and the present. It captures a fearful flipside of fantasy and hope, how unclear internal visions can distract and remain, ultimately stealing the chance of something more real.
Artist Bio:
Experimental digital abstractionist combining painting, scanography, digital manipulation, and generative processes. Influenced by the intricacies of the human mind, psychedelia, and nature, Archie's work explores deep-felt emotions, thoughts, and memories.
Artwork Description:
The dog barks at the sky in blind rage.
Extended Artist Statement:
We reinvent beauty, and it reinvents us.
Artist Bio:
Stephan Vasement is an artist who uses AI to explore the darker sides of his life and this world.
"Metadata of a Human" by RedruM
Artwork Description:
After the self is erased,
only metadata remains —
about, never of.
RedruM - 2025
Extended Artist Statement:
RedruM (b.1993) is a digital artist based in Italy, working primarily with artificial intelligence and digital post-production to craft emotionally charged, visually fragmented compositions.
After years spent as a criminal lawyer, he turned to art as a radical shift — a response to the need for a different form of truth-seeking: one that lives in complexity, multiplicity, and emotional resonance rather than argument or logic.
His work explores surreal, paradoxical worlds inhabited by distorted beings and symbolic forms — figures that may initially unsettle, yet gradually reveal emotional depth and unexpected familiarity. The use of red recurs as a disruptive presence — a trace of tension, vitality, or rupture — threading through otherwise muted, dreamlike palettes.
Drawing inspiration from mythology, film, literature, and everyday life, RedruM’s images are rooted in narrative, inviting viewers into suspended spaces where reality is fragmented and reimagined.
For RedruM, art is a universal language — a way to shape memory, distort perception, and express what cannot be said with words alone.
Artist Bio:
RedruM (b.1993) is a digital artist based in Italy working with AI to create emotionally driven, surreal imagery. Once a criminal lawyer, he now channels his focus into exploring memory, inner conflict, and duality — with red as a constant undercurrent.
"Dante & Virgil in the *the Circle; "Bear Witness the Artist & the Collector" by C0MPUTERBL00D
Artwork Description:
2048 x 2048 dynamic illustration
Rendition of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's, "Dante and Virgil in Hell".
Capocchio & Gianni Schicchi are replaced w/ Artist & Collector & one must consider who is who in this infernal scenario?
Extended Artist Statement:
Seeing Red • Milked from the Motherboard • Kissed by Chaos
Pen Play til yer fingers bleed & redirect the natural order of things.
Artist Bio:
C0MPUTERBL00D is a polydimensional visual pedestrian working on a micro & macro scale. His torment is your content versa vice versa, vices.
Artwork Description:
‘Carousel’ is an empowering self-portrait exploring the connection between the organic and the technological – combining my hypersensitive skin condition with intricate 3D design and printing; a dialogue between raw sensitivity and engineered form. Inspired by the ingenious pre-filmmaking techniques, most notably the zoetrope, it is a subtle homage to the artists who dared to think and create outside of the conventional boundaries.
Extended Artist Statement:
Iness Rychlik is a Polish-born artist, based in the UK. Despite her severe myopia, Iness has been dedicated to visual storytelling since her early teens.
Iness Rychlik is recognized for her dark surreal self-portraits; exploring themes of pain, solitude and vulnerability. Since she suffers from a chronic skin condition, Iness uses her own body as a canvas for artistic expression. She draws on her deeply personal experiences, often reflecting on growing up in a conservative and patriarchal society. The subtle elegance of Rychlik’s compositions contrasts with an underlying aura of brutality. Her conceptual photographs provoke the viewer’s imagination, rather than satisfy it.
Featured by ‘The British Journal of Photography’, ‘Cultura Inquieta’, ‘Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’, ‘Hi-Fructose Magazine’, ‘L’Officiel Italia’, ‘Architectural Digest’, BBC Scotland.
Artist Bio:
Iness Rychlik is a renowned self-portrait photographer. Since she suffers from a chronic skin condition, Iness often uses her own body as a canvas for artistic expression. The subtle elegance of Rychlik’s compositions contrasts with an underlying aura of brutality. Her conceptual photographs provoke the viewer’s imagination, rather than satisfy it.
Artwork Description:
Ancient. Algorithmic. Synced.
A sacred overwrite written in entropy and light.
Graphics Interchange Format
512 x 512 pixels
2025
Extended Artist Statement:
Yudho is a multidisciplinary artist from Indonesia.
“I draw the story of technology and humanity through pixel art.”
His current style involves a playful take on pixel art, which he terms “dirty pixels,” deviating from how raw it is and from the norm by creating large-scale pixel art that challenges conventional rules. This unconventional approach involves merging and moving pixels randomly, forming a pointillistic noise that creates depth and texture. In exploring this pixelated chaos art style, YUDHO’s art mirrors the digital noise we encounter daily—the influx of information on social media.
Pixel art, in his view, serves as a bridge between technology and humanity.
We interact with pixels every day, it is part of our life – we make contact with pixels through phone screens, TVs, and now even on our watches and eyeglasses. It stands as a perfect medium to narrate the story of human connection with technology, portraying the relationship between creator and creation. In this interaction, we continuously shape and reshape each other.
Artist Bio:
I draw the story of technology and humanity through pixel art.
Artwork Description:
That feeling, when the whole world goes quiet, and there are only two of you who exist. You have your own world - peaceful and colorful.
Extended Artist Statement:
Angela Nikolau’s imagery invites viewers to question the limits we inherit and the ones we choose to break — offering a bold, deeply personal vision of what it means to live freely in a world of constraints.
Artist Bio:
Angela Nikolau’s work fuses physical risk, high-altitude performance, and fine art into a singular visual language that challenges conventional notions of freedom, femininity, and authorship. Born in Russia in 1993 into a circus family, and formally trained at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Nikolau blends a childhood shaped by acrobatics and spectacle with classical painting techniques and a contemporary sensibility shaped by years of urban exploration and digital storytelling.
Artwork Description:
Simulated in early 2020.
Sound by David Kamp.
1080x1080, 30fps
Extended Artist Statement:
I was staying at a friend’s flat while he and his family were away on holiday. From one day to the next, all plans were cancelled. Everyone was isolated. Basic supplies were gone. It was a quiet, uncertain time spent in a temporary place.
Artwork Description:
A photo captured in the Westfjords of Iceland in the midst of an adventure shared between two lovers. This image would unknowingly become a symbol of the way it felt to be together, the memories shared, the miles trekked across the world together. Most finalities are experienced as routine until long after the end has already come. Live these little moments of your life as finalities, because you'll never know which one of these beautiful memories might be the last one you're left with when it all ends.
Extended Artist Statement:
Jay Toups is an internationally acclaimed adventure photographer and filmmaker. At 19 he began pursuing photography and fully converted his vehicle into a home to seek inspiration while being immersed in nature. He has spent years traveling the continent and making a life of exploration and art on the road, heavily inspired by the dark and emotive nature of renaissance paintings and the way that color can tell stories.
With a goal to create captivating art from some of the wildest places on earth, Jay has dedicated his life to making the beauty of nature accessible to all through the photos he brings to life. A strong believer in the way that humans and nature are inexplicably connected, Jay’s work becomes less about the places he photographs and more about the way those places make him feel; he hopes those feelings of connection translate to your own life and emotions.
Artist Bio:
Jay Toups is an adventure photographer, filmmaker, and mountaineer who has lived on the road for the past decade capturing some of the wildest places on earth. A storyteller seeking beauty in the chaos of the mind, his images of nature aim to reflect the trials of life we all face as humans.
Artwork Description:
SHEPHERD explores the timeless dynamic of faith and leadership within contemporary digital transformation. The work questions the psychology of devotion when individuals seek both material gain and spiritual meaning in rapidly evolving technological landscapes, reflecting on how promises of transcendence create new forms of dependency and the eternal tension between true shepherds and false prophets.
Extended Artist Statement:
My practice uses glitch art to examine how technological spaces become venues for eternal human behaviours — greed, faith, vanity, and the perpetual search for transcendence. Drawing from old world imagery and religious iconography, digital corruption becomes a visual metaphor for moral corruption and chaos, suggesting that our tools evolve while our fundamental spiritual struggles remain constant. The glitch becomes my medium for revealing the apocalyptic tensions beneath our utopian promises.
SHEPHERD emerged from observing how charismatic leadership operates across technological contexts, where complex systems create new forms of information asymmetry that mirror ancient power dynamics between prophets and followers. The piece examines that critical moment when individuals choose between independent discernment and collective faith, particularly in spaces where promises of technological transcendence often mask more traditional forms of exploitation. Rather than offering moral judgment, the work invites contemplation of our position within these cyclical patterns — whether we are shepherds, sheep, or something more complex in the digital wilderness we have created.
Artist Bio:
Through glitch art and animation, C4RDINAL creates digital prophecies that reveal how ancient patterns of devotion, corruption, and moral reckoning manifest within contemporary technological landscapes. Working with classical and religious iconography, the artist employs digital distortion as both aesthetic and theological tool, examining how our networked age becomes the new theatre for humanity's oldest spiritual dramas.
Artwork Description:
"It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real"
Jean Baudrillard
Extended Artist Statement:
In an age when images no longer require reality to exist, Simulation operates within the aesthetics of excess and control, presenting not an event but the residue of its representation. Signifiers circulate, detached from any original referent, generating a visual field where the real no longer anchors interpretation. The image ceases to point outward and instead loops inward, becoming simulation precisely when its indexical relation to reality collapses. As Baudrillard writes, “It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real.”
Artist Bio:
Alkan Avcıoğlu is a pioneering artist working with artificial intelligence, with a background in film criticism, electronic music, and academic research. He was among the first AI artists to be exhibited at major traditional art fairs including Paris Photo, Art Basel, Zona Maco, and Vogue Photo; his work was featured in Christie’s inaugural AI art auction.
Artwork Description:
Converging Chaos marks a turning point. While it still carries traces of my previous visual language, this piece represents a deeper evolution in my practice — a shift toward something freer, rougher, and more instinctive. It’s not a break from who I was, but a natural progression. The chaos here is a creative force coming together.
Extended Artist Statement:
I’m a digital artist from Valencia, Spain, working at the intersection of geometric abstraction and the absurd. My practice revolves around bold shapes, vivid colors, and a commitment to visual clarity, creating compositions that explore tension, play, and meaning through structure.
Creating is at the core of who I am. It’s how I connect with the world and with myself. I work across various digital formats, blending precision with spontaneity. While my work is influenced by early avant-garde movements, it has grown into a visual language of its own, shaped by curiosity, minimalism, and a constant desire to question the expected.
I’ve developed my career within the web3 art space, where I actively publish and collect digital art. Explore my collection.
My life is shaped by long-term thinking. Every day is an investment in the future I want to build. What fuels both my art and my way of living is a mix of curiosity, fun, minimalism, and respect for individuality. I believe in freedom, in how we live and how we create, and I’ve learned to follow a path that feels true to who I am.
Through my work, I’m constantly discovering new ways to express the ideas that fascinate me. It’s a journey I’m fully committed to, and I’m always excited to see where it leads.
Artist Bio:
I’m a digital artist from Valencia, Spain, working at the intersection of geometric abstraction and the absurd. My practice revolves around bold shapes, vivid colors, and a commitment to visual clarity, creating compositions that explore tension, play, and meaning through structure.
Artwork Description:
Breathe
Nothing changes
Keep breathing
I am done
Extended Artist Statement:
Art is a scattering of dust on the winds. A cairn of loose stones on the mountaintop, a statement. I was here, and this was me.
Our faces tell the story, even if we have no language in common - we know. Somehow, we can always read it. But the facial expression is the public key, not the private layer below. It is a mask.
The ASCII is my own font, a construct, each letter swapped for a symbol. A private key. The personal experience that can only be felt, never truly shared.
Paper crumbles, canvas rots, digital hardware degrades quickly into obsolescence. Blockchain is a beacon of light in the dark, an attempt at forever. My article of faith is belief in the blockchain, that art that is fully onchain will outlive us. And so, everything I make is built to that standard.
And maybe, just maybe, there will be something left when I am gone.
Artist Bio:
London-based generative artist focused on code, compressionism and blockchain
"The Sound Between Rails" by Hachimi
Artwork Description:
A train cuts through the stillness of the scene in a serene Japanese suburb. While, light casts deep shadows on a warm summer evening, stretching the serenity before dusk. The passing train becomes a fleeting memory as time seems to slow down for a little moment.
Extended Artist Statement:
My artistic practice centres on capturing quiet, reflective moments through background art. I am drawn to the emotional weight that environments can carry—how light, space and subtle movement can speak without words. I focus on evoking a sense of calm and stillness, using composition and atmosphere to guide the viewer into a moment of pause. Influenced by the visual storytelling of Japanese anime, my work often leans into vibrant colour palettes and cinematic framing to create a mood that feels both personal and universal.
Most of my work explores the quiet relationship between nature and time (moment). I’m drawn to scenes where movement and stillness coexist—where a passing train, a shifting light, or a gentle breeze becomes part of a larger, tranquil rhythm. These moments, though often overlooked, hold a quiet beauty that I aim to preserve through my art. By focusing on atmosphere and subtle storytelling, I invite viewers to slow down and connect with the peaceful, often unnoticed details of everyday life.
Artist Bio:
Hachimi is a background artist based in Malaysia who creates cinematic environments for animation. His work captures the serene beauty of nature and quiet moments, often inspired by the mood and detail of Japanese anime.
Artwork Description:
A time capsule of pre-Web3 experiments, this compilation preserves the early sparks of creation that helped shape my path into this space. It stands as a reminder that the Web3 movement wasn’t born from markets alone, but from years of experimental labour, self-teaching, and joyful exploration.
Extended Artist Statement:
Diane Lindo is a self-taught stop motion animation artist based in Ontario, Canada. Her work blends surreal storytelling with raw emotional undercurrents, using figurative symbolism and subconscious imagery to explore themes of vulnerability, catharsis, and connection. Since discovering stop motion in 2017, she has developed a distinctive style that invites viewers to confront and release emotion through a lens that is both haunting and deeply human.
Artist Bio:
Diane Lindo is a self-taught stop motion animation artist known for her surreal storytelling and emotionally charged imagery. Her work explores vulnerability, catharsis, and connection through subconscious symbolism and raw, figurative visuals.
Artwork Description:
this is not always the case.
Extended Artist Statement:
DeltaSauce is a Dallas-based digital artist whose work explores memory, nostalgia, and the emotional terrain of liminal spaces through the lens of AI. Rooted in early experiences spent in his father’s woodworking shop, his creative journey began with a fascination for the act of making — a reverence for process that continues to shape his approach to art today.
Blending the aesthetics of traditional illustration with generative technologies, DeltaSauce constructs digital artworks that feel like collages of time — dreamlike tableaus where the past lingers in modern form. Describing himself as a “curator of nostalgia,” his practice investigates the hazy boundary between personal memory and collective experience. These works often evoke a calming familiarity: suburban streets at dusk, retro technology glowing in the dark, or imagined corners of a world that’s half-remembered, half-invented.
Drawing inspiration from modernism, classicism, and the visual quiet of liminal space photography, his style marries emotional storytelling with technical innovation. A vocal proponent of AI as a creative tool, DeltaSauce sees AI art not as imitation but as evolution — a medium that allows artists to remix reality and expand the edges of what art can be.
Artist Bio:
DeltaSauce is a Dallas-based digital artist whose work explores memory, nostalgia, and the emotional terrain of liminal spaces through the lens of AI. Rooted in early experiences spent in his father’s woodworking shop, his creative journey began with a fascination for the act of making — a reverence for process that continues to shape his approach to art today.
Artwork Description:
Pushed to the limits, immersed in a state of overload.
executed in May, finished in June 2025.
mixed ai, jpeg, 4104x4808.
Extended Artist Statement:
Blanqspacer is a visionary artist exploring the interplay of human and digital identity in the age of artificial intelligence. Using his work as a mirror to reflect the complexities of the modern era, he captures the zeitgeist with a bold, countercultural perspective. Through his seminal manifesto, Dead Language Prompting Techniques: The Manifesto of AI Art, Blanqspacer makes a provocative statement that resonates deeply with his broader body of work. His creations celebrate the raw authenticity of forms born from chance and wonder, revealing their profound, earthy meanings.
Artist Bio:
Blanqspacer (Nikita Blank, b. 1993) known for exploring AI toolsets since 2021.
Artwork Description:
what grows here was never planted. you were not invited —you were inevitable.
Extended Artist Statement:
braindead.gif is an artist based in Europe. after studying painting at fine art school he has been devoted himself into digital art. also he has been drifting between the giant waves of web3 since 2022 w/ his signature animations.
he is mostly inspired by the concept of time, science fiction, dualism, nihilism, relativity, human nature, death, vintage techs and video games. he's trying to capture the essence of our deepest fears, desires and curiosities and he thinks that even one tiniest pixel should serve a purpose to do that.
in a world where everything is almost elusive, braindead.gif's creations stands as a bold testament that trying to find a meaning in the endless void of time & space we're in.
Artist Bio:
Pixel art / Animation artist based in Europe.
Artwork Description:
we search for ourselves
in a crowd of possibilities,
reaching through layers of borrowed identities
to hold onto something true.
in a time of infinite selves,
algorithmic floods,
and endless ways of being,
we grasp for clarity
a familiar gaze,
a steady hand,
a quiet reminder
that we still know who we are.
perhaps the act of connecting
is the truest way
of remembering ourselves
each embrace a quiet victory,
each moment of recognition
a grounding
in the chaos of limitless choices.
created in collaboration with AI,
this piece explores
the complexity of identity,
the tension of overwhelm,
and the simple reassurance
that, even in uncertainty,
we can still hold onto
ourselves.
At Least We Have Each Other By INFINITEYAY in collaboration with AI, 2025 | 11008 × 6144 | JPG
Extended Artist Statement:
Infiniteyay is an artist, creative director, and curator who explores AI’s potential for imaginative world-building. Coming from a traditional art background and professional design career, he eagerly embraced AI tools, discovering their powerful ability to transform his ideas into striking visuals. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he continues to push the boundaries of how AI can turn imagination into reality.
Artist Bio:
Infiniteyay is an artist, creative director, and curator whose work explores AI’s potential for imaginative world-building. With roots in traditional art and professional design, he exhibits internationally, continuously expanding the boundaries of AI-driven visual creativity.
"your live streamed job interview with an AI manager" by uczine
Artwork Description:
2025
Extended Artist Statement:
Uczine is a multidirectional artist specializing in multimedia creations. Drawing inspiration from concepts of the past, he blends them with contemporary methods and ideas, often exploring themes such as mortality, technology, time, decay, and transformation.
A dedicated advocate of remix culture, Uczine shares his creations under a CC0 license. While currently focusing on digital painting, glitch, screen printing, pixel art, and photography, he enjoys intertwining and manipulating various genres. The name "Uczine" originates from a low-budget fanzine he created in the early 2010s.
Artist Bio:
artist and designer specializing in multimedia art and printmaking. talking about, mortality, technology, dystopia and crypto with silkscreen, zine culture, digital art and street art.
Artwork Description:
Clouds float over a tranquil pool, are you jumping in?
Extended Artist Statement:
Hayden is a visual artist currently living in Maryland. He uses 3D art to explore a variety of surreal ideas, with a particular interest in blurring the line between dreams and reality. His work often draws from natural elements, such as water, clouds, and grass, in order to create dreamlike environments that feel both familiar and otherworldly.
His work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium, Beijing, Spain, Paris, and more. His largest show to date, "Nowhere Now Here" took place in Seoul, Korea, where audiences enjoyed an innovative mixture of physical and digital artworks.
Hayden is known for such series as World Underwater, Swimwear, Strange Clouds, and The Suburbs.
Artist Bio:
Hayden is a visual artist currently living in Frederick, MD
He uses 3D art to explore a variety of surreal ideas, with a particular interested in blurring the line between dreams and reality
Artwork Description:
Made in 2021 with sampling of OpenSea historical data. This was just a draft at the time exploring the history of NFTs on Ethereum. The visualization is a dynamic word cloud. Each date is rendered with the names of prominent NFT projects, font size proportional to volume each day from 2018 to late 2021, from the kitties to the on-chain text SVGs. Slow, suddenly, suddenlier. These visual dynamics intrigued me. They highlight our space’s tendency then and still to focus like an attentional flock on a concentrated set of winners. And around these winners, a frantic expansion of the space, others seeking a slice of that attention. This pattern is not unique to crypto. Such attentional dynamics seem natural to socioeconomic systems. Crypto reflects them and makes it easy to measure them. I never contemplated minting back when I created this, but looking back, the way it "burns out" in the last few seconds also expresses how the market could feel. I submit this animation as-is: It derives directly from those feelings then, feelings probably shared by many at the time.
Extended Artist Statement:
Takens is a cryptothematic data analyst, visualist, writer. He shares visualizations on themes about time, scale, and interconnectedness. His projects often explore the relationship between data and human cultural contexts by leveraging the structure of raw data produced by human economic, social and other on-chain behavior.
When entering the space several years ago, Takens created early data interfaces for crypto projects, such as an early recommender system for NFTs in 2019 featured in OpenSea blog. He has developed experimental fully on-chain and interactive NFT projects, such as the_coin, Gaussian Timepieces and The Mesh. His works have also explored and visualized the chain and its history.
Several of his projects have had charitable fundraising goals, including for 501(c)(3) charities. His writing and visualization over the years have been featured in OpenSea blog, Coindesk, NFT Now, Etherscan blog and more.
Artist Bio:
Takens Theorem’s projects challenge the divide between data and art and operate such that their aesthetic variation — their axes, colors, orientations, scales — map to specific elements of data, often directly from raw chain data. Visual forms and dynamics reflect data directly, revealing the history and structure of curious socio-technical spaces.
"we ride at dawn" by Bhare
Extended Artist Statement:
I constantly draw inspiration from my personal journals, embedding my artworks with reflections of my own growth and the intimate intricacies of home life. Through a series of fantastical paintings, I offer a kind of diagnosis—depictions of ordinary life layered with color and line, guiding the viewer through the highs and lows of daily existence. Much of my work is steeped in symbolism, representing an ever-evolving spectrum of emotions through bold geometric shapes, figures, and expressive free writing. My paintings serve as visual manifestations of these inner dialogues—complex, layered, and often full of contradictions, much like the human experience itself.
After the 2019 pandemic, I found myself delving deeply into the drama of hyper-introversion, questioning my place in the world and exploring ideas of identity and belonging as a Black first-generation American. I’m constantly cross-examining the complexities of identity, belonging, and what it means to exist between cultures. These questions are deeply embedded in my work, as I use painting to probe, to search, and sometimes to try to make sense of where I fit in. My art seeks to provide a cathartic experience, a way of cleansing lingering emotions and heavy feelings. It’s not an absolute truth, but in certain moments, it seems to help.
Artist Bio:
Shareon “Bhare” Blenman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. His diverse practice encompasses traditional canvas work, digital oil paintings, sculptures, and even ventures into skateboard design.
Artwork Description:
"GRID STATE ERRANT BLOCK" is an animated GIF that shows a city street scene being broken down by digital errors. As a work of Compressionism, it uses glitch effects and manipulated artifacts to turn a normal city grid into a vision of chaotic data, questioning how stable our digital world is.
Extended Artist Statement:
I work as a glitch artist and Compressionist, focusing on the tension between modern and old technology. I've been making digital art online since 2008, and my process treats digital artifacts, glitches, and data decay not as mistakes, but as the main material. For me, these so-called errors are the real language of digital media, showing the basic structure that's usually hidden.
"GRID STATE ERRANT BLOCK" is a direct application of this philosophy, built from the tension between modern and obsolete technology. The process for this piece begins with video generated by a contemporary AI. Each frame is then processed and transformed using the technical constraints of 1980s ZX Spectrum hardware emulation and my own custom scripts. This method intentionally degrades the modern AI-generated image, breaking it down to reveal its underlying blocky data structure and creating a new aesthetic where the visual languages of two different eras meet.
Artist Bio:
Max Capacity is a glitch artist and compressionist focused on the tension between new and obsolete technology. Since 2008, his digital work has used artifacts and the aesthetics of data decay as a key part of the artistic process.
Artwork Description:
We GM, we joke, we make art, we meme, we build, we win, we lose, and we do it together.
6000 x 3375 pixels, hand-drawn and colored with scanned materials
Extended Artist Statement:
I’ve lived with a condition called Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder since 1994 and it’s a major influence in the art I create. Derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, hallucinations, visual snow and shifting perception are major themes in my work.
Graduating from Pratt Institute in 2004 with a degree in Industrial Design I’ve designed hundreds of products that have gone into production. As I’ve grown older, I’ve become less interested in creating products that will eventually end up in a landfill. This is what I love about digital art, it doesn’t utilize natural resources or take up any physical space but can deliver meaning while giving me an outlet for expression and a community of friends.
Artist Bio:
Chris Granneberg is an Artist and Industrial Designer.
Artwork Description:
300x300 upscaled to 1200x1200, 200 frames
Extended Artist Statement:
'unreadable, flawed' emerges from the tension between intention and interpretation, between what we mean to convey and what inevitably seeps through. The title speaks to an acceptance, even celebration, of the beautiful impossibility of pure artistic translation. We are unreadable because the depths of human experience resist easy decoding; we are flawed because perfection would render us sterile, uninteresting, inhuman. Through the deliberately constrained vocabulary of monochrome pixels, the animation embraces these limitations not as failures but as the very conditions that make authentic expression possible. What emerges is not despite our inability to be fully understood, but because of it—a recognition that the gaps between artist and audience, between intention and reception, are not voids to be filled but spaces where meaning lives and breathes.
Artist Bio:
loackme is a French generative artist based in Amsterdam. After earning his PhD in Statistics and working in research, he left academia in 2018 to pursue digital art and graphic design. His work features monochrome geometric designs, animated loops, and extensive use of dithering algorithms to create color illusions from limited palettes.
"Familiar From a Dream I Don't Remember" by Joain
Artwork Description:
This piece feels like a memory you can't place - vivid, shifting, strangely comforting . It moves like a dream: layered, fragmented, full of meaning that escapes words. You've never seen it before, but somehow, it feels like something you've already felt.
Extended Artist Statement:
Joain is a digital artist who discovered the power of neural networks and machine learning in 2020. He's been incorporating his customized (self-trained) control net diffusion model as part of his workflow thus creating a unique and innovative approach to digital art. This model allows Joain to blend digital art techniques with cutting-edge technology, producing works that are both visually striking and conceptually profound. By training his own neural networks, Joain has been able to create a personalized artistic style that sets his work apart in the digital art community.
Joain's dedication to his craft and his innovative use of neural networks continue to drive his artistic evolution, making him a leading figure in the realm of digital art. His unique approach not only challenges traditional perceptions of art but also opens up new possibilities for creative expression in the digital era.
His work has been exhibited worldwide including Art Basel Miami, NFT Paris, NFT LA, NFT Korea, Tokyo Shibuya, Superchief Oculus New York, etc.
Artist Bio:
Joain is a digital artist who discovered the power of neural networks and machine learning in 2020. He's been incorporating his customized (self-trained) control net diffusion model as part of his workflow thus creating a unique and innovative approach to digital art.
Artwork Description:
Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real?
Extended Artist Statement:
Cypheristikal is an AI artist based in Los Angeles, California, known for creating mesmerising visuals that blur the line between abstraction and realism. At first, his work may seem like fractured, abstract compositions, but a closer look reveals intricate, sprawling cityscapes. These metropolitan elements are integral to Cypheristikal's work, which often features complex, circular, or spiralling forms. The use of geometric shapes, such as grids, spirals, and angular patterns, creates an effect of organised chaos.
By blending cool hues like blues and purples with warmer tones of reds, yellows, and oranges, Cypheristikal generates a striking high-contrast effect. This draws the viewer's eye to the multiple layers within each work, emphasising their dynamic nature. The interplay between chaos and control is a key theme in Cypheristikal’s art, as he evokes a sense of both structure and disorder. His work challenges traditional perceptions of space, offering a glimpse into a future where urban environments and digital worlds merge. Cypheristikal's unique work has been showcased at major art events around the world, including in Los Angeles, New York, and cities across Europe like Ghent, Rome, and Lisbon. Collect it on Foundation, Objkt, and Rodeo.
Artist Bio:
LA-based AI artist bending reality with pixels.
Artwork Description:
“Short Change Hero”, 2025, by Rebecca Rose. 3d spatially collaged digital animation, dimensions: 1920x1080, duration: 0:40. Original soundtrack composed with AI assistance and sound mixing by the artist.
Are heroes even possible in a world where everyone is flawed? And why are we so quick to discard them once they’ve fallen from grace, off a towering pedestal that we ourselves built?
"Short Change Hero" is about disillusionment with those we place on pedestals, rooted in human imperfection and our tendency to idealize others. We project onto them qualities that align with our values, hopes, aspirations, desires, dreams. It becomes less about the person and more about our individual need for symbols of greatness... for something to believe in. But when the facade cracks, simply through exposure of their humanity and imperfections, we’re left grappling with disappointment, betrayal, and our own cynicism. Because we just can't tolerate it.
Extended Artist Statement:
I’m a storyteller at heart, am interested in shared experiences, and curious about people: what drives them in life and who they do it for. A richer world exists in the stories we tell, through meeting extraordinary humans, and understanding core moments that shape their destinies and trajectories. I’ve embraced storytelling and narrative in my work since the beginning, from my early collages to my current motion works.
My work also dares to question: How far can we take 2 dimensional elements by collaging them 3 dimensionally? Can contemporary time- based media break the 4th wall and offer a deeper personal experience between viewer and piece?
My DeepCuts project, 3d collages with depth inspired by songs, is comprised of 2D elements collaged together with depth to create a 3D spatially collaged environment. While telling stories of shared human experiences, I position the camera movements through the digital scenes to guide the viewer through the story as it unfolds. With my work I aim to welcome the viewer in to become one with the piece, connect emotionally and intellectually with the concepts, spark dominant discourse on the themes.
Artist Bio:
Rebecca Rose is a Florida-based, award-winning collage artist who explores human narratives using various collage methods: analog, digital, sculptural, animated, holographic, 3D, and immersive installations.
She received her BFA, and graduated cum laude, from Northern Arizona University and was an Artist-in-Residence at Ox-Bow/SAIC, The Joan Mitchell Center, AOTM, and the Selkie Rio Art Residency. Her work has received numerous grants co-sponsored by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Willem De Kooning Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropic.
Rebecca’s work has shown domestically and abroad, including at The Whitney Museum c/o Occupy Art Fair, Miami Art Week, The Kennedy Space Center, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. She has sold work at Christie’s, created work for the Norman Rockwell Museum, and has been featured in Mensa Magazine, PBS, music videos by Yo-Yo Ma, and in the recent documentary “The Rise and Fall of NFTs” by Heni Talks and Atomized Films. Rose is managed and represented by AOTM Gallery.
Artwork Description:
Manfredi Caracciolo, 2025
Extended Artist Statement:
Caracciolo (b. 1998) has been making digital art for over half his life. He currently lives and works in Mantua, northern Italy, where the fog is thick and life moves slowly. His work has been showcased in exhibitions and galleries in New York, Miami, Paris, Milan, Liverpool, and many other cities worldwide.
Manfredi Caracciolo creates dreamlike, haunting, and surreal visual interpretations of existential states.
Behind a rigid architectural language lies a narrative about the human experience: imposing and austere structures compel us to reflect on our nature, our vulnerability, and our resilience.
Artist Bio:
Lights, camera, stasis
