I look for the immanence of the living into the code, especially in the {Compend-AI} series. The difficult part was to capture a human generative process that couldn’t be questioned. For a year I traveled capturing human gesture repetitions, in order to build my own precise database. It has been a long and exciting walk where the poster maker appears as evidence. I followed them a lot and I captured all remnants on the walls everywhere in the world, my DJ tour helped a lot here! It’s one of the most incredible human generative processes. First, it questions the culture we are constantly sold, close to Jacques Villegle or Raymond Heins works. Second, the remnants on the walls are the perfect results of the equation. The perfect iterations of our Biological Generative life. Once I've built the most personal dataset, the second part was to look for patterns or similarities with the Living. My friend Johan Lescure has then been essential here. We tricked the algorithms to reveal what the eye couldn't see inside those data materials. Insanely, we are revealing forms and patterns really close to the living.

Credit:In collaboration with Johan Lescure

10240x12800 HD file available on demand

PRICE: 150 XTZ per edition (Edition of 10)

Unit is a series of four real time animations with an identical core algorithm but variations in color and direction of movement. The ruleset for the animation has been implemented in a deterministic fragment shader with a feedback framebuffer. The shader is delegated by data from three virtually generated textures. Texture one and two are created once on initialization by the same algorithm to add structural and color data in two different versions. The third texture prompts usage instructions on how to use the informations stored in texture one and two, and how to apply and combine the eight animation algorithms.

40cm x 60 cm signed print

This work is sold as a physical print during a timed open edition opening on 20th of September at 5pm CET and lasting 72 hours

PRICE: 300 EUR per edition

Number 1 in the ‘Odd Positions’ series.

Sketches were created using outputs of a GAN trained on the artist’s paintings. They were then fed into DALL.E to create 24 iterations that were printed, cut, and used to create a collage. As a final step, this collage was scanned and imported into Procreate to be painted over by the artist.

Edition of 10

PRICE : 82 XTZ per edition

Number 2 in the ‘Odd Positions’ series.

Sketches were created using outputs of a GAN trained on the artist’s paintings. They were then fed into DALL.E to create 24 iterations that were printed, cut, and used to create a collage. As a final step, this collage was scanned and imported into Procreate to be painted over by the artist.

Edition of 10

PRICE : 82 XTZ per edition

The conceptual artist Andy Kassier (*1989) lives and works in Berlin. His work includes installations, perfor- mances, photography, videos, sculptures and painting. In 2013, he created his alter ego Andy Kassier, who ironically breaks the narrative of wealth and happiness in late capitalist society.

Kassier observes phenomena in social media and the development of digital image cultures.

200 x 80 cm, engraved mirror, LED Panel
Edition 2/3 + 1AP

PRICE : 4000€ + VAT

The world is definitely chaotic at first glance. Throwing a die, trading stocks or cryptocurrencies, or simply walking through a crowded city center can have unpredictable outcomes. Computers are different. Algorithms are deterministic by design. Given the same input, they always produce the same result. In reverse, it’s impossible for a computer to produce a string that is truly unpredictable. What is usually an advantage becomes a problem in cryptography. To provide truly random numbers for encryption, Silicon Graphics filed a patent in 1996 for Lavarand. By taking photos of a bunch of physical lava lamps, they generated the random numbers needed for privacy and security in the computer age. While the original patent expired, the most important internet infrastructure provider, Cloudflare, built their own lava lamp wall in their San Francisco headquarters. They are used to provide SSL/TLS encryption to their customers. CHAOS turns the Lavarand concept on its head. It generates a simulated lava lamp from the unique seed that is stored in each generative NFT. The ThreeJS simulation runs in the browser. Unlike the physical lava lamps, their movements are determined because they follow mathematical calculations that always produce the same movements and shapes. Under which conditions could the simulation become as complex as the physical lamps? *according to Forbes “How Cloudflare Became The Most Important Internet Company Nobody Has Heard Of” (Dec 4, 2020)

Disclaimer: as this is a generative long form work, this preview is just a potential output from the collection.
fxhash collection opens on 13th September

PRICE: 40 XTZ

This work studies different metamorphosis directions of the same starting point in the latent space of a trained GAN model. From the infinite set of direction vectors, six parallel timelines are displayed, all of them exploring a different range of possibilities. The subject of the study is a seemingly organic ambiguous structure that has emerged like a weed during training of the GAN model on a set of film photographs representing humans and man-made structures. Through the peripheral exploration of the outlier we can observe the properties of the latent space, outside of its figurative meaning. It is a metaphor for the alter- native paths not lived.

AI, custom GAN training on photography
SIZE: 4096 x 6144
Edition of 25

PRICE : 300 XTZ per edition

This work studies different metamorphosis directions of the same starting point in the latent space of a trained GAN model. From the infinite set of direction vectors, six parallel timelines are displayed, all of them exploring a different range of possibilities. The subject of the study is a seemingly organic ambiguous structure that has emerged like a weed during training of the GAN model on a set of film photographs representing humans and man-made structures. Through the peripheral exploration of the outlier we can observe the properties of the latent space, outside of its figurative meaning. It is a metaphor for the alter- native paths not lived.

40cm x 60 cm signed print
This work is sold as a physical print during a timed open edition opening on 13th of September at 5pm CET and lasting 72 hours

PRICE: 300 EUR per edition