Paolo Curtoni

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genuary day 27

#genuary27 #genuary2026
#genartclub #generative #generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart #purecode #digitalart

I agree, and it's not always easy to distinguish between spectacle, speculation, and politics, if a distinction is even necessary. I believe that what really matters is the artist's intention and work, beyond any label.

Perhaps it's also a question of urgency and the need for effective social action, even in the short term, and not just in a universal and timeless dimension. And perhaps today's decaying world demands it.

Transparency

#genuary day 23
[vanilla typescript & glsl]
#genuary23 #genuary2026
#generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart

One line. An artwork that is made of a single line only.
(prompt credit: @josvromans.art )

#genuary day 20
#genuary20 #genuary2026

An also
"Hidden harmony is better than obvious harmony." (Fragment DK B54)

Here you have the philosophy of algorithmic generative art, explained 2,500 years ago 😅

Heraclitus says that in the universe, what appears to be random or disorderly on the surface actually constitutes a beautiful and ordered whole.

"The most beautiful order is like sweepings poured out at random."

You can't have a beautiful whole without the messy parts.
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Order and disorder
#genuary day 16

Heraclitus, Fragment B124 (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE)

#genuary16 #genuary2026
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When an AI reconstructs an image into code, there is no "why." There is only "match this example."
The results can be beautiful, but worthless as a medium of human expression.
...Well, in this case it's not even beautiful 😅

But can we call it art if the algorithm never passed through a human mind? Generative art isn’t just the output; it’s the infusion of the human spirit into the logic at the moment of its conception.
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To me, generative art is the aestheticizing of logic, not just the visual output.
The art lies in the system. It is the work of a human artist building with constraints, variables, languages, constructing a mental architecture that carries ideas.
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Self portrait
(prompt credit: @josvromans.art )

#genuary day 13
#genuary13 #genuary2026

I fed my photo portrait into an AI, and it returned p5js code meant to replicate it.
Like asking a machine to guess the syntax of a result that already exists.
A worthless creation...
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In this implementation, words can be reused, but only after a certain number of generations. I'm actually planning some evolutions of this project, where statistics would certainly be interesting 😉

In this case, the letter that creates the longest word, or that creates the greatest number of different words, or that is the least recently used, is chosen 😉

Nice! I'm curious, what kind of rules are playing?

I haven't done it but it could be done, do you think it would be interesting?

Crazy automaton.
#genuary day 9

Deterministic linguistic cellular automaton: letters appear only if they form an English word with existing letters; they die after N generations or when no longer part of any word. No randomness except the initial seed.

#genuary9 #genuary2026

Beautiful! 🤩👏

Beautiful! 👏🤩

I'm glad you appreciate it ☺️! Nice to meet you too 🤗

Thank you Dominikus! 🙏

A City.

#genuary day 8
#genuary8 #genuary2026

A city made of words, the words of the great book "Le città invisibili" (Invisible Cities) by Italo Calvino.

Boolean algebra.

Recipe: boolean operators AND/OR/XOR/NOT, selected from a noise field and applied bitwise to overlapping true/false regions.

#genuary day 7
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I'm wondering what's behind this tagging—a poorly trained machine learning model or a sick mind? 😂😭

Lowres

#genuary day 4

#generative #generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart #purecode #genartclub #genuary4 #genuary2026

I like to think this captures a glimpse of the Fibonacci sequence’s beautiful mystery 🙂

This generates a sequence of LEFT/RIGHT directives that follows the Fibonacci recursion, but expressed in space.
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Start with the recursive definition of the Fibonacci sequence:
F(0) = 0
F(1) = 1
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2

Now replace the two constant values:
F(0) = LEFT
F(1) = RIGHT
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) (where + means concatenation)

Fibonacci forever.

#genuary day 3
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genuary3 #genuary2026

A representation of the Fibonacci sequence as a single long line.
The recipe: 🧵