What could be more original than the nonfungible token that started it all? We present Founder Cat #12. At the intersection of gaming, collectibles, and blockchain-fueled speculation, these Ethereum-clogging critters today number in over a million and a half felines.

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“There are an almost infinite number of ways to wrap a string around a set of pegs. On the surface it may seem like a simple concept but prepare to be surprised and delighted at the variety of combinations the algorithm can produce. Each output from 'Ringers' is derived from a unique transaction hash and generated in Javascript in the browser. Feature variations include peg count, sizing, layout, wrap orientation, and a few colorful flourishes for good measure.”

nouns.wtf, or NounsDAO, is a set of smart contract that generates one “noun”, or generative avatar work, every day, forever. Unique DAO dynamics allows Noun holders to vote on the capital collected from auctions.

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Murat Pak is a leading motion graphics designer, also known as the creator Archillect, an AI which curates art and visual content. Pak combines 3D graphics, animation, and design with a quantitative background. Metanoia, which refers to a spiritual change of heart or conversion, reminds the viewer to think about a whole’s constituent parts, which exercise often comes with surprising discoveries. Says Pak of the work, “Metanoia is an abstract reflection of the inner chain of transition which occurs at the moment of impact between the self* and the other*.”

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Dmitri Cherniak has an extensive body of work in the realm of generative art, parameterized and implemented using JavaScript. “Automation is my artistic medium,” Dmitri says. This unique work, produced while the creator was sick in bed, aims to release trapped energy, abstracting “vasculature and cells” of the human vessel where that energy resides. As a purely virtual work, I am but a vessel’s strongest claim to the physical world seems to be in the form of a digital asset on a blockchain.

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This work presents the viewer with a surprising and unnerving duality that is as absurd as it is sharply in focus. Through a creative digital manipulation, the subject is reduced down from flesh into a cardboard cutout, connoting tension, subjugation, and angst. On April 30th, 2019, “self.” became the creator @yrdgz’s first collected piece.

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Mera Takeru is a digital artist based in Japan and the issuer of the $GOU cryptocurrency.

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These abstracts by @yrdgz knowingly implement a virtual, generative art through physical photography, resulting in a soothing but deliciously imperfect lightscape.

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Video artist Sarah Zucker shares one of her earliest videopaintings on VHS from 2015.

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African artist Osinachi’s “4th Man” is part of a work he created on async.art consisting of a 30-head poster inspired by those at the local barber shop. The heads “were choices that we could make as men in society”, says the creator who grew up in Nigeria with limited access to computers and tools of digital artmaking. “Osinachi is a brilliant protest artist,” writes Artnome founder Jason Bailey in a foreword to an Osinachi exhibition at Kate Vass Galerie. “Rather than depict dramatic scenes of struggle and conflict as is often typical with protest art, his weapon of choice is to highlight normalcy and positivity.” Osinachi has been described as the foremost African cryptoartist.

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“Doughnut” is the first NFT created by Susan Kare, one of the world’s most pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Susan tokenized “Doughnut” with the help of FIRSTEDITION.XYZ on March 17th, 2021.

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These two Hashmasks are some of the rarest in our collection. #113 should be named “The Golden Robot” for an unusual conglomeration of gold features — skin, body, and background. Meanwhile the “I Am Become Death Mask” has a mysterious aura of clairvoyance, having been named before the Hashmask reveal on February 1st, 2021.

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In a consolidation of the artist’s recent work, S**W^ amplifies the mythology of its ecosystem. Using wild refracted color, symmetry, texture, and repetition in a way that canonizes a style, it marks a finalized experiment since J**L. Surreal in its choice of tones and terrain, and daunting in its vantage point, S**W^ is as much a challenge to the viewer as it was to the creator.

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Whether this work is what artist and 2013 Jeopardy! Champion Sarah Zucker considers in line with the off-beat sensibilities of her own curatorial project, The Current Sea, is up for debate. Yet, using VHS feedback, animation, and pixel sorting, the multiply-digital “PixelPool” seems to suggest, eerily, our present reality of colorful abandon within a closed technological trap.

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In this study of shapes, Julio Smitter (@jsf) “develops a plastic proposal influenced by the past and the present that derives in a display of abstract forms making allegory to a captured moment, a still frame,” according to the Zulia Museum of Contemporary Art. A rich feast of ray-traced color, Composition 5 is the perfect Schelling point to occupy a virtual meeting place, the largest square frame of the Winding Gallery.

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The markup art series by creator @pointshark features strongly weighted lines, a comic book-style color palette reminiscent of pop art. This bright and dynamic sub-series featuring jagged contours connotes action or energy transfer.

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Human or machine? The eyes of “Charles” remind us of the haunting disparity between metal and flesh, necessity and desire, and life and death.

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ASCII art is smashed with reality in this window into a digital human world. These pieces are products of what the Paris-based creator calls a “neverending experimentation” with “a big conglomerate of opensource software”.

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A sense of chromesthesia prevades this museum-exhibited artist Otha Davis III’s indulgent portraits of pop culture icons. This rendition of Biggie’s famous gaze is one of the most universally recognizable in the series.

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luluxxX pays tribute to @OrfanoSolange via a portrait resembling the latter’s artistic style, which flows in deep monochrome lines and tattoo ink.

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From Hexeosis — a combination of the words hexagon and apotheosis — hx_7c131 is an endless search for the end of infinity, as if looking out from the business end of a transgalactic spaceship. “It just keeps going,” the creator says.

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Analog and digital collide as the human hand tries to mimic a regular pattern on imperfect physical canvas, 60 cm by 60 cm, only to be digitized and editionalized as a pristine NFT on Editional by artist Monica Zeng.

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The brightest in a sequence of recent works by creator @mar.e which use three-dimensional elements, Porrait evokes a kind of geometric portraiture with its abstract skin tones, smooth transitions, and domestic colors.

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These legendary gerbils of crypto are issued in sets by the podcast NonFunGerbils, with this Genesis Gerbil being associated with podcast episode #2.

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This rich gradient-based work stands out among the diverse repertoire of Italy-based Vansdesign’s abstract digital art pieces.

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Tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain using the artist’s native ERC-721 asset, compact cassette becomes cryptopopart.

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Color gradients, abstract geometry, and pearl-like textures predominate creator @abysms’s published works on Editional. Vintage TV static or futuristic digital backdrop? The viewer decides in “_ ch6 _ vice ”.

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BlockCities is a set of collectibles featuring digital representations of buildings both computer-generated and replicas of famous specimens. Partially a memento of a favorite edifice and partially a generative art project, soon collectors will be able to arrange buildings in their own virtual cities. While BlockCities continues to push the boundaries between art, collectibles, and gaming, we have acquired the very first such object, Genesis Building #0001.

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