Paolo Curtoni

Responsive Dreams Barcelona Features 8 New Art Blocks Studio Releases Responsive Dreams Digital Arts Festival in Barcelona showcases 8 new generative artworks released on Art Blocks Studio, exploring the concept of animated digital dreams.

It is a great pleasure and a great honor to be mentioned on the same page with these other artists whom I deeply respect
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When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.

"Neural Prometheus" on Art Blocks
100 unique artworks - 0.025 Ξ
Sep 19 at 10:00 AM CET

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Responsive Dream 2025 Festival

with Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be

When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.

"Neural Prometheus"
for Responsive Dream 2025 Digital Arts Festival,
sept. 19-21, 2025

with the great Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be

#algorithmicart #genart #generativeart #genartclub

ups.. sorry 🙏

When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.

Soon to be exhibited at Responsive Dreams Festival (by TGAM), in collab with Art Blocks Studio, my work together with that of other 7 artists I deeply admire:

Aleksandra Jovanić,
@amygoodchild.bsky.social
@bustavo.com
@hal09999.bsky.social
Julian Hespenheide
Manuel Lariño
@wblut.bsky.social

Now I am curious to see when other concepts that have nothing to do with AI will be swallowed up by the same phenomenon: "generative grammar" will become an AI corrector, "generative cell" will be a synthetic neuron to build AI, "generative process" when an AI is finally convicted in court...😅

However, I fear that the defense of the meaning of "Generative Art" is now a lost battle, linguistic superficiality and ignorance have now taken over. I fear we will have to acknowledge defeat and fall back on alternative terminology, for example "algorithmic art", or something like that.

Sometimes, however, I also suspect that this confusion is created on purpose, as a surreptitious attempt to attach the creation of AI images to an artistic tradition worthy of respect.

Probably this hijacking is mostly due to simple ignorance of the subject, and to a mental laziness for which the mere presence of the adjective "generative" is automatically associated with the very popular collocation "generative AI", just for phonetic assonance but without any semantic affinity.

For those who work with generative art - the real one, which has existed since well before any machine-learning technology - it is quite depressing to observe the lexical hijacking that is underway, where the concept of "generative art" is used in place of "Art created with AI tools".

Do you agree? Why did you ask? ❤️

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This work was created for the ACTZ Art Commission Gallery, Feb 2025 'Nostalgia' Exhibition. Curated by Scottx

Minted @teia.bsky.social
Auction @objkt.com

My first mint a almost a year and maybe my first auction! Details below👇

It is a parking lot transformed into an exhibition space, in Tokyo 🤩

It's a pleasure to see my works exhibited in such a perfect location, along with other amazing works 🤩

Exhibition "BYOD²" – Digshibuya / Miyashita Park / Tokyo

Thank you Miska! 🙏

This theme seems to me to be of great interest and importance. Are there perhaps any traces left of the discussions that led you to this artistic position of yours?

Subdivision
ˌsʌbdɪˈvɪʒən
noun
The process, instance, or state of being divided again following upon an earlier division
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#Subdivision #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genart #generativeart #plotter #vector #plotterart

One last contribution for this #genuary2025 day 31, Pixel sorting
With an open question:

Art for art's sake?

What do you think?

#genuary #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #generativeart #genuary31 #genuary2025
(prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

you got me! :-D

One line that may or may not intersect itself.
"The Waste Land", by T. S. Eliot

#genuary day 25 (prompt credit: Bruce Holmer , Chris Barber , @heeey.art , @monokai.com )
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary25 #genuary2025 #poetry

Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape.

S/N: 2025.024

#genuary2025 #genuary24 #genuary #dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks

#genuary Day 20:Generative Architecture.

Auto-box builder.

#genuary2025 #genuary20 #genartclub

Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923.

Generative Architecture.
#genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture

Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923.

Generative Architecture.
#genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht)
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture

Triangles and nothing else.
Pure black and white. No gray.

#genuary
days 13 and 14
(prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025

Triangles and nothing else.
Pure black and white. No gray.

#genuary days 13 and 14
(prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025

The Coding Train All aboard! The Coding Train is on its way with creative coding video tutorials on subjects ranging from the basics of programming languages like JavaScript to algorithmic art, machine learning, simul...

I'm glad you're interested :-) I don't know what to recommend, it really depends on what you want to do. From an algorithmic point of view a good fun starting point could be Daniel Shiffman www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTr...

Thank you! I'm glad you like it 🙏. The plotter is a @bantamtools.bsky.social Next Draw, the software is a generative art program I wrote myself in "vanilla" TypeScript language, without any library nor dependencies.

#genuary day 12: Subdivision

Plotted on paper with fountain pen, two inks.

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary12 #genuary2025