THE GEN TRILOGY SET
2020 - 2021
Three projects comprising of various series sizes
Genesis
2020
Series of 512 unique digital outputs
Gen 2
2021
Series of 256 unique digital outputs
Gen 3
2021
Series of 1028 unique digital outputs
At the end of the year 2020, Art Blocks, a platform dedicated to artists working with generative code as their medium, made a large debut on the “NFT” art scene. Included in the platforms launch were three projects, one of which was my own: Genesis. This moment marks the beginning of what would eventually become a set of three generative projects: Genesis, Gen 2, and Gen 3, which I commonly refer to as the Gen Trilogy set.
Genesis was created years prior in 2017 as the proof-of-concept project for the Art Blocks platform. The conceptual nature is in how it takes a token hash string of a blockchain transaction as input and interprets the string as a visual composition of lines, grids, triangles and color. This very concept of hash string interpretation is the very core of the blockchain-based generative art movement.
A few months later, Gen 2 was created as a further exporation of the hash string concept, but this time including movement and interaction. Taking inspiration from a Chinese garden, Gen 2 consists of a randomly genereated graphical bitmap form that is veiled behind a bitmap curtain. Clicking on the curtain reveals the form in its entirety and brings it to life with subtle movement.
The third project in the set, Gen 3, takes the exploration into the realm of written words. Playing with the idea of meaning itself, three words randomly selected from a predetermened pool are composed into a verse. The words follow an adjective + adjective + noun pattern resulting is a phrase that seems illogical upon first reading it, yet gains plausibility and meaning to the viewer upon hearing or seeing it in repetition.
To commemorate the completion of the three generative editions, I published GEN TRILOGY CATALOG in Fall of 2021. Copies of the catalog were distributed to various collectors. The catalog is available for purchase.
Gen Trilogy Catalog Page
Minted on Art Blocks
Contract Address:
Genesis: 0x059edd72cd353df5106d2b9cc5ab83a52287ac3a
Gen 2 & Gen 3: 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270