Originally posted on Substack The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery -Francis Bacon Hello Friends, It’s been another couple weeks since the last edition has gone out. I’ve been spending time on my own artwork, gathering books and inspirations along with traveling and working on another project involving blockchains. Hope you enjoy! Chris Ried 📰 Happenings Eyeo Festival - June 14 - 17, 2022 School of Poetic Computation - Multiple Courses Anderson Ranch Art Center - Multiple Classes Processing and Laser: Creative Code to Wood Panel - June 27 - July 1, 2022 Drawing with Machines - July 18 - 22, 2022 📸 Generative Meet Vera Monar, the 98-Year-Old Generative Art Pioneer Who Is Enjoying New Relevance at the Venice Bienniale “For me, arriving in Paris was happiness,” Molnár told me of her emigration to the French capital in 1947 with François Molnar, who would become her husband....

Originally posted on Substack Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside of you, to make your soul grow. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. - Kurt Vonnegut The quote above is so powerful that I really don’t think there is much more to be said....

Originally posted on Substack “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” - Jennifer Elisabeth I would love to see some critique in the generative arts space… But a traditional art critic would give us a perspective of how it fits into the tapestry of art history and the emerging trends that occur within the community....

Originally posted on Substack “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” - Thomas Merton Good Evening Readers! It’s been a rather interesting couple of months adjusting to full-time work at home and trying to really give a thorough think on what it means to make art, and what does generative art stand for in the context of today. Many questions that have been on my mind are:...

Originally posted on Substack “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill And 2022 is here… it’s truly remarkable how quickly time has gone and continues to go. This time last year, generative art was a small niche group of enthusiasts who appreciate the art form. Now.. well it’s become quite an interesting spectacle and will be interesting to see how it continues to play over the next couple of years....

Originally posted on Substack Never stop dreaming.. - Roy T. Bennett Good morning my friends! I hope you are finding amazing inspiration in the interesting stuff that you have been working on. First up: Content these days take longer to curate because its a niche space so I’d love for anyone to send me interesting generative/ creative works that they have created or inspired by. I’ve also been spending a good deal of time trying a bunch different things that I have been releasing fewer newsletters....

Originally posted on Substack Never stop dreaming.. - Roy T. Bennett First of all, I can’t thank you enough for your participation on Twitter in recommending the many wonderful women in the generative space. I think it’s amazing to see so much talent and creativity in the space. I’ll highlight over the next number of newsletters. Creating An Inviting Space in Generative Art I think it is important that we encourage a depth of perspective that comes we celebrate inclusion....

Originally posted on Substack “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” - Wayne W. Dyer So this weekend I had the amazing opportunity to make it to Marfa Texas for the inaugural Artblocks weekend which was such a treat. I was able to meet a bunch of genart inspirations; Caleb Ogg (iso.hedron), Aaron Penne (aaron_penne), Tyler Hobbs (tylerxhobbs), Kesean (keseantx), Stefan Contiero (stefan_contiero), Dimitri Cherniak (dmitricherniak) to name a few which was a special treat....

Originally posted on Substack “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein Hello Friends, This week has been fascinating on multiple fronts in the generative art space....

Originally posted on Substack “A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.” - Stephanie Perkins Good Evening Folks or Happy Friday! I’ve been working on multiple small projects and this above was supposed to be a simple infographic of the most popular frameworks. However it has become an all weekend event on Twitter which was a great community effort. Being that there has been so much interest, I though this will be a great opportunity to move the wireframe version above into an interactive graph which I do look forward to finishing....