Mutant Garden Seeder consists of 512+1 generative unique Ethereum NFTs by artist Harm van den Dorpel, released in collaboration with Folia in 2021.

Mutant Garden Seeder

High resolution render of the Mutant Garden algorithm, manually calibrated. When this one was made the renderer did not use Gaussian blur yet. Its composition primarily benefits from the alternating AB/BA grid structures and its colours from a balanced pastel palette (HSL colour space).

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Alternate Ploy

Early high resolution render of the Mutant Garden algorithm, manually retouched.

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By Harm van den Dorpel, 2020

(title by William Kherbek)

Neural Dust

While developing the Mutant Garden algorithm based on Cartesian Genetic Programming, my programming error produced this unexpected recursive structure.

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Mutant Garden (early bug)

“Temporality is” is an artwork in the form of screensaver that uses Gaussian smoothing, a function used in noise reduction for digital images, and a frozen loading spinner, to adorn live uploaded images scraped from photo sharing sites. The images are shown for a random number of seconds before disappearing. The blurring effect and static circle emulate a frozen moment in time, eliciting a sense of disruption in the viewer waiting for the theatricality that has become standard in UX culture. The work renders the mundane as a digital artefact without opulence but with an almost unnerving sense of pause in time that requires a still appreciation of a moment where nothing happens (Terence Sharpe).

The work requires an active internet connection.


Temporality is

Crud

Photo taken of my screen while reading the Business Insider RSS feed. Cropped to square.

NFT

Mutant Garden Seeder

Alternate Ploy

Neural Dust

Mutant Garden (early bug)

Temporality is

Crud

gm

Blob

Danse Macabre

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