Author: Mia Bao, co-founder of thepass.to, chief partner of WHALE members
Data: Jin, data analyst of thepass.to
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Refik Anadol - Archive Dreaming
It’s been more than half a century since AI-generated content to the broader human “creation of art with computers” dates back to the 1960s. In 1969, Georg Nees demonstrated generative art works created by computers in his paper "Generative Computergraphik", and his work Shotter (Gravel), released in 1968, is considered to be the earliest and most famous generative art one of the works. With pioneers such as Georg Nees, Frieder Nake, and Michael Noll, generative art has never been more popular and recognized by the general public.
From the beginning of its birth to the present, there have been endless debates about whether generative art is art. Fear of new things is often the biggest stumbling block to freedom and creativity, as Jason Bailey said in his 2018 article "Why Love Generative Art?" The: "Generative art is art that uses computer programming to intentionally introduce 'randomness' as part of the creative process. "Controlled randomness" sounds like an oxymoron, but if you're an artist or an art historian, you know that artists are always looking to introduce randomness into their work to spark creativity. "
Whether AI creation or generative art, in addition to lowering the threshold for ordinary users to participate, it is also a source of inspiration for professional artists. If you think of it as a complete work of art, the computer-driven work is more like a "sketch". Just like the award-winning "Space Opera House", in addition to computer additions, the artist still spent more than 80 hours of revision and detail. carved. Artists build through controlled aesthetics, and computer programs take care of the variables. This is the charm of generative art. In 2021, the global"generative art"first level title
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What are Artblocks?
5 Issue Types of Art Blocks
Art Blocks artist data and portraits
Art Blocks key project introduction and highest price
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What are Art Blocks?
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ArtBlocks partial code
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ArtBlocks Trading Volume
5 Issue Types of Art Blocks
Art Blocks was previously classified according to three different types, namely Curated, Playground and Factory. With the growth of business, Exploration and Art Block X Pace cooperation series were added later.
Curated is an artist's work officially incubated by Art Blocks. All works will undergo the strictest review, so only the top NFT collections will be incubated.
Playground projects can be thought of as spinoffs of Curated, created by artists already included in the curated series who wish to experiment with less censored creations without waiting for further approval from the curated series.
Factory projects are created by artists who have not yet been accepted by the curator, but still need to meet a set of requirements, and artists who launch work in the factory must wait until all works are sold before launching further collections.
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Art Blocks artist data and portraits
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ArtBlocks Artwork Distribution
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Number of Art Blocks Artists by Type
Number of Art Blocks Projects by Type
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Number of Art Blocks Tokens by Type
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Top Art Block Favorite Artists by Volume
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Art Block Curated Artists by Floor Price
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Artist Rank by Historical Price
It can be seen from the above figure that a single artist in the same series will still have a price gradient gap due to different attributes, according to thepass.to(https://nftvalue.thepass.to/#/Collectables/ArtBlockssecondary title
Chromie Squiggle Evaluation by Traits/Types
Data: https://nftvalue.thepass.to/#/Collectables/ArtBlocks
Art Blocks key project introduction and highest price
Chromie Squiggles, Snowfro
Chromie Squiggles is the first collection to be published and minted on Art Blocks, designed by platform founder Snowfro himself. he thinks they"Embodies the soul of the Art Blocks platform", and said they were all his"Personal signatures as artists, developers and tinkerers"image descriptionhttps://etherscan.io/tx/0 x 2 e 0945 a 447 f 7 e 17 e 7 a 38 c 7 e 321 b 22 aed 9 b 995 dccfe 05425 a 0 e 91 ada 750 ad 8 a 79 ）
Chromie Squiggles Artwork
Fidenza，Tyler Hobbs
Tyler Hobbs is a visual artist from Austin, Texas. The Fidenza series is Tyler Hobbs' most well-known generative art so far. In Tyler Hobbs' own words, the technology used by Fidenza is "my most general algorithm so far." The program behind this series is not complicated, but the core structure of the algorithm is very flexible, allowing the production of multi-dimensional diversity results of scale, organization, texture and color. The highest price of this series is 1000 ETH (3.32 million U.S. dollars), purchased by the well-known collector punk 6529. (https://etherscan.io/tx/0 x 41 c 71 c 8 a 1 f 73 d 31 ed 278 c 6 cf 9 e 84 c 24 dc 10 2ca 777 f 33 ad 48886 e 753852 a 7 aab 6 ）
Ringers，Dmitri Cherniak
There are almost infinite ways to wrap a rope around a set of nails. On the surface, this may seem like a simple concept, but you'll be amazed and delighted by the variety of combinations the algorithm can produce. Each output from Ringers comes from a unique transaction hash, featuring variations including number of pegs, size, layout, packing orientation, and some colorful decorations. Canadian artist Dmitri Cherniak has delivered a perfect answer in generative art creation. The highest price of this series is 2100 ETH (7.11 million US dollars), and it will be sold in October 2021. (https://etherscan.io/tx/0 x 1 b 9 c 6 bce 926 cd 54 c 084 e 245 b 15156 ecd 3 bc 42 eec 273 c 08 f 2 a 1 c 73 c 661 b 09 b 9 d 5 ）
Meridian，Matt DesLauriers
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Meridian Artwork
Art Blocks Collectors and DAO Organization Data
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Total Art Blocks Owners by Type
With the popularity of Art Blocks, some organizations that specialize in or collect Art Blocks on a large scale have also sprung up. According to the NFT DAO aggregation platform thepass.to, the most popular Art Blocks artist of DAO organizations is snowfro, which is collected by nearly 10 large DAO organizations, with more than 600 pieces, and the more well-known organizations include the following.
Curated.xyz
Curated is a $30 million NFT crypto fund founded by Todd Goldberg and Andrew Jiang. The crypto fund, which only invests in NFTs, is backed by Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit and Seven Six Ventures, and representatives of Electric Capital, Pantera, and Lattice Capital. from thepass.to data (https://app.thepass.to/dao/Curatedxyz_pending/Dashboardimage description
Curated NFT Asset Distribution
Squiggle DAO
The Squiggle DAO is a community-led organization focused on collecting Squiggles. The mission of SquiggleDAO is to help the growth of generated art NFT, and you can join the DAO organization by holding Chromie Squiggles. Basically 100% of the treasury of Squiggle DAO is Chromie Squiggles assets, with a total value of over tens of millions of dollars. (https://app.thepass.to/dao/Squiggledao_pending/Dashboard）
Bright Monents
Bright Moments was originally just a small pop-up gallery launched on the streets of Los Angeles, USA in late 2021. In the beginning, it was just an NFT physical gallery that displayed and sold NFT works on the screen, with IRL (real life) characteristics. However, at that time, even in the Los Angeles area, NFT was a very avant-garde concept, so more and more people interested in NFT began to gather, so BM broke away from the restrictions of entities, built an NFT collection community, and established its own The "Crypto Citizens" of CryptoCitizens. At present, there are nearly half a million dollars in ArtBlocks in the BM treasury (https://app.thepass.to/dao/BrightMoments_pending/Dashboardepilogue
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Like a lot of things in the NFT space, Art Blocks can appear obscure to the uninitiated and the less tech-savvy. But like Jason Bailey said, your aesthetic for the genre only improves when you explore the algorithms and programming behind the work. Only by being curious and exploring new things can we continuously broaden the boundaries of cognition. From 0.035 eth to 100 eth, surprises are still happening.
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https://nftplazas.com/what-are-art-blocks-nfts/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/art-blocks
https://cryptoslam.io/art-blocks/sales/summary
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/art-blocks-generative-artists/
http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/exhibition/164
https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art
https://opensea.io/collection/chromie-squiggle-by-snowfro/analytics
https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/art-blocks-and-the-data-of-generative-art
https://nonfungible.com/market-tracker/artblocks
https://app.thepass.to/dao/Curatedxyz_pending/Dashboard
