The new Generative Art project Self-miracle(2024), by Cheng Ran will present a complete renewal of his previous artwork, in Course of the Miraculous (2015), a 9-hour film that utilizes experimental film imagery as its visual foundation. Supported by Genify, the leading Multi-chain Generative Art Platform, and collaborating with Sun Bohan, a renowned generative artist with its team to further explore the notions of the themes of the work-adventure, time, and memory, creating unique variations that transcend the limitations of time.

For Genify’s artists, community members, and all collectors who support generative art, we invite you to support the future creation of the artist by collecting his Generative artwork. The entire NFT series will be limited to 1,000 pieces, with 0.02E mint price and available for mint from September 6th. Mint Link: https://genify.xyz/collection/ethereum/1/items

The proceeds will support the upcoming projects of the artists, in which this aligns with Genify and K11 Art Foundation’s mission of artist incubation in Generative Art, solidifying the artists’ voices in the global artistic conversation.

You will also be directly supporting this visionary creator and this incredible and exceptionally creative work. As part of Cheng Ran’s special project, there will be a special edition of the Generative artwork in every 100 editions. Please stay tuned to unlock these artworks together!

In an interview with Jimi Wen, Omar Lobato discusses his evolution from early web development and cybersecurity to engaging in music, generative art, and adapting to life in a bigger city. Starting with web projects as a youth, he diverged from a path in law, inspired by his father, to pursue technology and art. He touches on making commercial websites, his music projects, and a stint in cryptocurrency, highlighting the shift from small-town familiarity to the anonymity of city life in Belo Horizonte. Omar Lobato also explores how conditions like sleep deprivation enhance his creativity, leading to discussions on latent inhibition and the creative process. His upcoming work “GHOST” illustrates his minimalist approach to generative art, balancing order with disorder. The interview showcases Omar Lobato’s diverse talents and anticipates his future contributions to art and technology.

Profile of Omar Lobato：

https://linktr.ee/omarlobato

https://www.instagram.com/omarlob/

https://twitter.com/seigneurrrr

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Jimi Wen:

Cool, are you still in school?

omarlobato:

No, I finished my computer science course in 2021, but I’ve been playing with HTML, CSS, and WordPress since I was 12. I’m 27 in April.

Jimi Wen:

So, you were making your own website since you were 12?

omarlobato:

Yes, I worked a lot on websites since I was a kid. I also played with a Linux distribution called BackTrack (now Kali Linux), did tricks with pentests, DDoS attacks to test security, but I always liked making HTML and CSS websites.

Jimi Wen:

Wow, you started earning income when you were a kid?

omarlobato:

Yes, I worked on commercial websites for local stores using Joomla or WordPress, basically for local people. This was back in the 2011s.

Jimi Wen:

Nice, helping society to get on the internet or reduce the gap in internet connectivity.

omarlobato:

I had some musical projects and a band, so I spent on instruments or equipment. I produced rap beats/electronic music before starting to create generative art. I also got into crypto in 2013, mined BTC using an ASIC miner, but only earned around $25 in a month, which I spent in one day at the bar.

Jimi Wen:

Did you hold on to your BTC?

omarlobato:

No, sadly.

Jimi Wen:

Why did you enrol in law school?

omarlobato:

My father is a lawyer, and I tried to follow his steps, but I didn’t like the course. It wasn’t for me. After that, I switched to a tech school.

Jimi Wen:

I see, my parents are professors, so I got a PhD, but I didn’t stay in academia.

omarlobato:

It’s a very valuable degree. I will have a PhD one day and will focus on studies in the future.

Jimi Wen:

PhD is printed, no fixed supply, lol.

omarlobato:

Yes, but I think it’s a very valuable thing for a person to have that title. It’s not necessary, but it adds a lot to your professional standing.

Jimi Wen:

Inequality is quite large in Brazil, right?

omarlobato:

Yes, in all places we see inequality here.

Jimi Wen:

Given your parents and family members’ professions, you would be either upper-middle or middle-upper class. So, you would be more privileged than the average fellow countryman.

omarlobato:

We are middle class. My father earns $1000 a month in his work, and my mother has a law degree but works as a Portuguese teacher in high school. I’ve become more established after Web3 and generative art two years ago.

Jimi Wen:

But you would have less economic burden to provide for your family and pursue your own dreams?

omarlobato:

Yes, for sure!

Jimi Wen:

How many percent of Brazilians have a degree like you?

omarlobato:

I think around 30–40%. Some areas are very saturated, like law, urban engineering, philosophy, and there’s a “hype” for tech courses like computer sciences and system engineering. But these maths courses are very hard for the majority to complete.

Jimi Wen:

I like maths; I was a high school champion at the school level. Other than generative art, what other art forms did you practise?

omarlobato:

I used oil paints, took photographs, made music, and tried to make good food. I think making food is an art, like you. I’m not good with texts, but I love to read.

Jimi Wen:

Yes, totally. I notice you didn’t mention poetry. Linguistic art is itself another form.

omarlobato:

I’m not good with texts. Lyrics in music were my weak point. I have a bit of difficulty writing texts or articles. But I love to read.

Jimi Wen:

So, when you made rap hip-hop tracks, your friend wrote the lines and rapped?

omarlobato:

No, I wrote, but it’s difficult. I try my best at composing lyrics/poetry, but personally, I think it’s not so good. I’m better at composing with musical chords and notes.

Jimi Wen:

When did you find out generative art was one, if not your favourite medium to express creativity or emotion?

omarlobato:

In November 2020, a friend introduced me to Objkt, and I started creating something on Blender. I was learning about 3D models, but then my friend showed me FxHash and generative art with the Hydra-synth by Olivia Jack. So, I started coding in Hydra and was amazed because I never thought before that we could make art with code.

Jimi Wen:

Which of your works resulted in “aha” moments for you? The ones where you felt you grew as an artist or human being?

omarlobato:

Yes, I have “Secret Stairways” and “Stains on a Canvas” for generative art. In music, I designed an album cover for a great friend who passed away one year ago but left behind beautiful music. I’m glad to have been a part of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7fz-X78aQ

[Secret Stairways]

https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/secret-stairways

[Stains on a Canvas]

https://www.artblocks.io/project/365

Jimi Wen:

Did you use shaders on the album background?

omarlobato:

No, I used the Perlin noise function in colours and Photoshop filters.

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omarlobato:

-I invite you to come here; you are very welcome! I was born in Belo Horizonte, but I lived my entire life in Pompeu. I moved to Belo Horizonte two years ago. I really don’t like big cities.

Jimi Wen:

Beautiful city! Thanks, it would be my pleasure. For university, you had to go back to Belo Horizonte?

omarlobato:

Belo Horizonte has 2 million people, and is 150 km far from Pompeu. Yes, I studied at UniBH.

Jimi Wen:

Was there any particular city you had in mind for your upcoming work “GHOST”?

Omarlobato:

All those big cities.

Our biggest city is Sao Paulo, 11 million.

Then Rio with 10 million.

Jimi Wen:

So Sao Paulo, Rio.

Omarlobato:

Metropolis is full of people but at the same time, I feel alone in the crowd.

Jimi Wen:

Is Belo Horizonte considered big?

Omarlobato:

Yes, the smallest of the big. The other cities in Minas Gerais have a maximum of 100k. There’s a joke that Belo Horizonte is a great countryside.

Jimi Wen:

Lol, because it doesn’t have 10 million people? But I saw some lake or something quite beautiful.

Omarlobato:

Yes, and because there isn’t much to do there. It’s the Pampulha Lake, where Niemeyer projected that church.

Jimi Wen:

See, everything is connected.

Omarlobato:

It was very controversial in that epoch.

Because mostly the Catholics were familiar with Gothic or Roman architectures. So Oscar made a totally different church. People complained, but nowadays it’s an icon of architecture.

Jimi Wen:

I admire the confidence Oscar had.

Omarlobato:

Yes, it was groundbreaking at that time. I’ve also seen Iskra Velitchkova sharing some of his projects on Twitter. This made me think his work is famous around the Brazilian bubble too. He had another edifice in Belo Horizonte, which looks like Copan in Sao Paulo but is smaller.

And also the Edificio JK in Belo Horizonte too, was projected by him, another habitational complex, one of the big buildings of Belo Horizonte, this one is more brutallistic, dont have his curves signature.

Jimi Wen:

His works are now easily associated with generativeness of forms, but his render time probably would have been weeks, if not months.

Jimi Wen:

Can you talk more about the feeling of loneliness despite being around crowds?

Omarlobato:

Yes, I lived almost my entire life in a small city of 30k people. Everyone knows who you are, and if you need help, people know you and help you. In a big city, even if there are 1000 people in a crowd, no one wants to know who you are. People just pass through you like you’re a ghost. People always run in a rush, like ants, running to finish their jobs, to gain their life. This was a big shock of reality for me when I moved to big cities.

Jimi Wen:

Yes, I feel that way too. Everyone wants to finish something rather than take time to start something.

Omarlobato:

Everyone is running, lacking time.

Jimi Wen:

Perhaps art creation is a luxury of time.

Omarlobato:

Indeed, those who have time and those who sacrifice their time to create art.

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Jimi Wen:

How does your creative body clock work? For me, it is very erratic.

Omarlobato:

For me, it always works in both music and art when I haven’t slept for a long time, and after fighting sleep, I can have a lot of creativity. Sometimes when I’m drunk also.

Jimi Wen:

There is science behind this. We evolved to have this function, latent inhibition.

Omarlobato:

But during the day, it’s hard. It works more in the late night when it’s all in silence.

Jimi Wen:

To focus, in order to survive. It shuts 99% of the sensation or intuition our brain is capable of processing like GPUs. Latent inhibition turns our brain more like CPU, serial processing for maximum efficiency.

omarlobato:

Yes, I think there’s some magic when we fight against sleep; we can become a bit more active.

Jimi Wen:

For me, it is very erratic. There is science behind this; we evolve to have this function, latent inhibition, to focus, in order to survive.

Yes, instead of being more focused, by daydreaming, we might find what our heart/brain is calling for.

omarlobato:

For sure!

Jimi Wen:

Back to the upcoming work “GHOST,” I think this is your largest edition yet, right?

omarlobato:

Yes!

Jimi Wen:

Since you cannot play with the palette to carry more editions?

omarlobato:

I know it’s hard to create a work fully monochrome to maintain a high amount of different variations, but this work will not repeat even with one palette.

Jimi Wen:

Yeah, it’s all in the composition.

omarlobato:

If this work has colours, it will have no soul.

Jimi Wen:

Sometimes constraints are sources to push us into more creativity.

omarlobato:

Exactly, doing the maximum with the minimum.

Jimi Wen:

It’s really amazing to see that beyond traditional optical art, the spaces you create are balanced spaces with infinite variations. That is the most difficult thing.

omarlobato:

I appreciate you liked this! This is what enchants me about randomness.

Jimi Wen:

The balance of disorder and order in GHOST. Spaces emerge, space being the order for our latter stages of our visual cortex. Disorder at two levels, line by line level, and composition level.

omarlobato:

Totally! We will have a bit of slight differences in the compositions one made with full rectangles and another with triangles.

Jimi Wen:

-Thank you for your time I think let’s wrap up here, and await your upcoming drop.

💡 TL;NR

11月22日20：00整（UTC+8）Conflux 生态的首个生成艺术作品“the Bridge” by Hal09999 即将在 Genify 平台正式发行；

Genify 在推出多链版本后，宣布首个深度合作公链 Conflux，并将以香港为中心，建设更繁荣的生成艺术生态，Genfiy联合创始人 Shaun8149 与 Web3 招商主任张元杰就此展开了同社区的对话。

Shuan8149:

大家好，我是shaun8149，Genify平台的联合创始人。很高兴来到今天 Conflux NFT Land的AMA，今天我主要和大家聊聊生成艺术。

生成艺术是一个源远流长的艺术流派，它最典型的特征，就是艺术家多多少少不能完全控制和预测最终的产出。艺术家创造一个系统，系统创造艺术，这就是生成艺术的特征。当然，今天这个系统大多数时候是由代码和算法生成的，从早期的绘图仪到现在的区块链，表现形式在进化，但内核始终是一致的。

我们时间有限，我们不做考古，大家参与生成艺术和NFT，一方面是为了爱好，一方面是为了赚钱，今天我将从这两个方面说说生成艺术，聊聊我们策展的项目“The Bridge”。当然，HAL项目的成功策展，首先需要感谢我们的策展人，Jimi Wen。Jimi今天也在我们的群里，感谢 Jimi。

Q1：首先，先请 Shaun8149探讨一下生成艺术的 Web3 原生特性。相较于其他艺术形式，您认为生成艺术在哪些方面更具备与 Web3 原生特性的契合？

Shaun8149: 我主要从我个人的经历出发做一些分享。

在2021年，我作为 Artblocks 社区的收藏者，经历了生成艺术的第一轮牛市，见证了一些资产在 100 天内从 0.1ETH 涨到3 00ETH Floor Price 的疯狂。

然后，我作为一个程序员，作为从2005年前后就使用flash创作生成艺术的 艺术爱好者，做了一些个人的研究：

在2017年，一个网名叫做snowfro的艺术家看到一个网站在分发一种像素风的头像，网站名字叫做cryptoPunks，snowfro去的时候，最稀有的外星人和猿猴已经被抢完了，所以他免费的领取了34个僵尸Punk。

snowfro看到这个网站之后，更加坚信自己的想法，它想找到一种途径，将数字货币、区块链和生成艺术结合起来。snowfro卖了一些Punk，开始自己的创业，这个平台就是后来的artblocks。

我们后来也知道了，僵尸Punk在NFT市场是1000ETH左右的存在，所以snowfro这个经历也很传奇

Q2：我们刚才说到，生成艺术的过程是，艺术家写代码和算法，代码和算法通过随机性来产生一些具有美感的图案，这就是生成艺术。那么，区块链可以提供什么？

Shaun8149：第一，代码可以放在区块链上，无论是放在智能合约，还是放在块上，都可以；第二，区块链可以提供随机性；第三，区块链可以提供交易场景。通过这三点，就产生了一种叫做On-chain Generative Art的东西。

这个就是snowfro的作品,chormie squiggle,100多行代码,现在单个市值9ETH，一共10000个,平均一行代码1000ETH。

应该说到目前为止，生成艺术是Web3最完美的使用场景之一。在Web3之前，艺术家需要将作品通过绘图仪打印并且出售，整个过程是低效的，收藏者看不到代码，也看不到生成的过程。

另外，除了和早期的线下生成艺术相比，链上生成艺术对比头像类NFT也有自己的很大优势。

如果大家有兴趣，可以去看看 Fidenza作者的文章：https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2021/the-rise-of-long-form-generative-art

这里也有一篇经典的文章可以参考参考：https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

另外，说说 Snowfro 的这个作品,我一开始买的时候，觉得就是一个类似于meme币的感觉,但是实际上这个作品是动态的,在大尺度上看是非常震撼的,其实我们这次策展的HAL的作品也很震撼，如果在大屏幕上看的话会感觉明显

Q3：选择《The Bridge》作为首个与Conflux合作发行的生成艺术NFT是否有特殊含义？该项目是否有独特的经济模型？

Shaun8149：HAL是我们今年邀请到的最重磅的艺术家。HAL 是Genify平台下半年最重磅的艺术家，我们知道他的作品在前不久参加了顶级的艺术策展平台FeralFile的展览。

我们邀请HAL创造“The Bridge”作为首个与Conflux合作发行的生成艺术NFT，主要有两个考虑：

1. 生成艺术在西方大行其道，我们希望东方藏家群体能够尽快接触到好的艺术家的作品。Conflux作为香港概念最成功的项目，拥有最多的中文用户群体。
2. 我们东方也有非常好的生成艺术家，在宝岛台湾和大陆，都有活跃的创作者群体，我们希望将这些艺术家的作品带给大家。

以上是我们认为，Conflux作为最成功的东方概念公链，能够给生成艺术社区带来新的活力。《The Bridge》项目作为 Conflux 上的第一个项目，我们将会这个项目的藏家赋予更多的后续项目白名单的权利。

我们可以看到，The Bridge作品在 X 上面 得到很好的反响，点赞1400,rtw 276。这个作品的Holder，后续可以在Genify和 HAL 的后续发行中，有很好的优先权。

Q4：那想问一下您，如何看待生成艺术中艺术家的控制权与计算机编程的随机性对于NFT投资价值的影响？

Shaun8149：以我在2021年的一段亲身经历给大家讲讲：

在不同的生成艺术项目中，艺术家的控制权是不同的，有些艺术家做了更多的控制，也有很多艺术家将控制权更多赋予计算机。但是不可否认的是，随机性极大的影响了NFT的价格。同一个系列中，最为稀有的部分的价格，一般都是地板价格的几十倍到数百倍。

这个作品被称为天使之眼，是Fidenza系列作品的一部分，Fidenza一共999张，mint时间大约是在2021年的5月份，mint价格是0.1ETH。大约在6月1号的时候，我用50ETH买了 FIdenza 475，然后6月7号左右，VVD 也就是网名为Vincent Van Daugh的人花了100ETH，买了这张938。然后大约3个月之后，他卖了2600ETH，当时的价格，ETH大约3500美元左右。当然，#938稀有是因为Fidenza最稀有的一个属性是螺旋Spiral，999张Fidenza，一共有36张螺旋，#938是其中唯一一个反向旋转的。

这个大家估计都知道，最近铭文 goose，都是被这个带火的。这个是Ringers，Ringers最MEME的就是这张了，当时Mint价格也是0.1ETH，最近拍卖成交价超过700万美元，然后艺术家 因为RIngers的 大鹅，做了一个cc0的 网站 ，the goose generator，然后BTC社区的朋友们发了铭文大鹅，其实Ringers系列 很有意思，尤其是排列起来。

前不久有欧洲的网站卖实体作品，所以，我觉得随机性是生成艺术最有意思的一部分。再看看这个 Fidenza #313

这张图，是 6529 拥有的，他把这个放在自己的metaverse的入口，我建议大家想体验metavrese感觉的，可以去逛逛6529自己的metaverse，一个人建造的，体验远超所有的商业metaverse：https://6529.io/om/

从专业的角度讲，艺术家让渡控制权的多少，和艺术家的风格有关，最近Lerandom做了一个相关的研究专题，有机会可以去Lerandom网站看看：https://www.lerandom.art/editorial/demystifying-generative-art?ref=gorillasun.de

Q5：那具备了这些 Web3 原生特性的生成艺术通常以独特的算法或过程创建，那 Conflux 与 Genify 是如何利用区块链技术支持生成艺术项目呢？

Forgiven：我理解生成艺术会利用很多外部信息来决定随机的input。艺术的表现形式会受这些随机因素的影响，其中用户在mint的时候，所产生的哈希值，区块高度，都有可能产生截然不同的性状外观，带给每个用户独一无二的收藏体验，而像goose这样随机形成与自然进化巧合的浑然天成，自然会成为藏家追捧的热点作品

Shaun8149：我先总结一下 Forgiven 说的：第一，On-Chain。这一点非常重要，是生成艺术区别于其他NFT的重要特点，其他的NFT只有Token在链上，其他数据在链下，极端情况下，源数据的丢失和修改会导致NFT的价值丢失。而生成艺术则是Token和源数据都在链上。以我们这次发行的作品“The Bridge”为例，作品通过Genify发行，作品的源代码存在Conflux链上的智能合约里面。

第二，随机性。生成艺术是在收藏者mint的时候，使用交易本身的哈希值来决定的，也就是说，一个好的生成艺术，是由艺术家和收藏家共同完成的，这明显不同于头像类的开图。对于每一个mint的人来说，你的购买也是作品生成过程的一部分，你和艺术家共同创造了这幅作品。对于我们来说，很重要的一点是，Conflux提供了EVM兼容的智能合约，可以很方便的提供链上随机性来生成作品。

我们在Conflux发行的这幅作品，是Conflux链上第一个生成艺术作品。而且，这个艺术作品可以很简单的通过CFX代币来进行交易，这就使得收藏者可以很方便的购买到这个作品。

我个人的感觉是，Web3真的是不分国界的，我们今年策展了很多巴西艺术家的作品，只有数字货币和BlockChain能够极大的改变这些艺术家的生活，这也是让我更加相信数字货币的地方。

我觉得我们这样，两个香港团队，加上西方艺术家，加上宝岛的策展人Jimi，给大家创造了一个好的艺术体验，这就是Web3独特的价值。

Q6：接着，作为基础设施提供者的 Conflux，在与多链生成艺术 NFT 平台 Genify 的合作中，提供了哪些与以往不同的技术支持？

Forgiven：Conflux e-space是 EVM兼容的，地址也与以太坊一致，可以直接使用小狐狸/wallet connect来进行登陆/购买 。从技术支持而言：

1. 提供了跨链dex的流动性方案来让艺术家及其藏家社区直接购买到cfx，以便艺术家铸造，藏家方便够买 3.confluxscan浏览器针对艺术家的动态艺术作品做了专门的优化，以便藏家/用户在浏览器也能方便查看作品。
2. 未来我和刺客在和生态的NFTPlay沟通，能否定制专门的nft电子画框，载入genify及其它平台的艺术作品，这样可以摆在桌上/挂在墙上，不停地播放自己收藏的数字艺术作品，而不是仅在网站上浏览。

Q7：那从加密艺术的发展历程来看，区块链技术与艺术的结合为艺术创作者和创作过程带来了很多新的可能性，Conflux 是如何促进技术创新与艺术创作之间的有机融合的？

Forgiven：就如shaun所说，区块链是没有国界的，我们希望通过conflux，将更多世界范围内的算法艺术家介绍给亚洲藏家社区，特别是在中国和香港。

Conflux 团队也在积极研发分布式存储系统/铭文系统，可以有效地保存nft合约的元数据。另外作为招商团队的一员，我们希望引入更多像 Genify，通过genify引入更多像hal09999这样的算法艺术家。将他们介绍给加密社区，让他们在炒币之余，也能陶冶情操。

在上一波的牛市中，诞生了加密艺术（数字原生），头像（波谱）艺术，和算法艺术，我相信在下一波牛市中，AI艺术也将大放异彩，在上个周期中，AI算力的使用还过于昂贵，模型还过于简陋单一。而随着 Chatgpt, defusion, midjourney等引擎地大幅进步，算力成本大幅下降，AI艺术将登上历史舞台而Conflux作为元宇宙经济中的底座，将通过招商合作,黑客松，学术研究等形式引入更多这方面的可能。

Q8：鉴于区块链和生成艺术领域的快速发展，两位可否透露一下 Conflux 与 Genify 是否计划扩大双方在生成艺术领域的合作呢？会有哪些面向未来的发展战略呢？

Shuan8149：简单说几句,我们计划策展更多世界上优秀的艺术家到Conflux发行作品。一方面，现在是生成艺术趋向于成熟的时间，艺术家的手法和表现形式更加多样化，技术更加成熟，另一方面， AI的发展也对算法生成艺术起到了推动的作用。Conflux 和中国收藏家群体将会是 Genify 未来工作的重点,我们始终助力于将生成艺术、计算机艺术展示给更多的人。

另外，其实这个领域的门槛并不高,大家作为数字货币的从业者，都对技术有多多少少的了解,可以自己去玩一玩：https://generativeartistry.com/，我希望通过和 Conflux 的合作，认识更多有趣的人，让大家的生活多一点趣味。

Forgiven：我对艺术的理解有限，但对玩法会更加侧重。刚才shaun提供了一个很低门槛的工具，我在想人人都可以是艺术家，那如何定价呢？我在想刚刚大热过的friend.tech的key的定价曲线是否可以成为一个系列艺术作品的发行/销毁逻辑。这样一来将艺术本身变为无需准入，但同时又加入了市场机制，让艺术家互相之间 PK，让藏家彼此通过交易来形成市场共识，筛选出真正受用户喜爱的艺术家和作品，而不是简单地将艺术定价权/印刷分数交给艺术家武断地规定，邀请一批艺术家同时启动，同台竞技，也包括素人,这是我期待看到的盛世。

自由提问环节

Q1：我想问下，这次作品的储存可以运用到跨链技术吗，NFT 储存在Lambda 还是 Conflux?

Forgiven：NFT 合约在Conflux espace, 具体内容应该是存储在Lambda的基础设施存储服务 LWS 中。

Q2：问下两位大大你们对香港市场有信心吗

Forgiven：我，必须有，相信香港市场，也相信香港市场因我们而共同繁荣。

Shuan:：我们都对香港有信心。

Artwork Introduction: The Bridge

< The Bridge > is an interactive and autonomous journey through hyperdimensions.

All theories about the universe converge on the idea that there are more than the 3 or 4 physical dimensions perceived in everyday life. Maybe these higher dimensions are bigger, or maybe they are smaller than our tools can measure.

Explore the multitude of generated aesthetic spaces. Each universe includes a set of cosmic objects (stars, clusters, pulsars…) as well as a representation of possible orthogonal dimensions projected into the space of the screen.

The right way to travel the universe:

Movement:

Keyboard W/S or Z/S or ↑/↓ : control speed

Mouse drag : control direction

Keyboard Z/D or Q/D or ←/→ : yaw (horizontal orientation)

Capture:

Keyboard Spacebar : capture current image (max 1920x1080 px)

Each work is a journey through a multidimensional universe containing 1.5 million stellar objects.

Your journey will drop on genify, Nov 22 UTC 12:00 ( HKT 20:00 )

Have a nice trip !

The Bridge

About HAL09999

• HAL09999 uses codes and custom algorithms to create digital artworks.
• Inspired by a strong interest for topics stemming from nature and sciences, HAL09999 combines curiosity, technology and chaos to explore aesthetics spaces and reveal or discover novel structures.
• In parallel with teaching computer sciences, electronics, physics and digital arts, he also worked as scientific and technical advisor for other contemporary artists and international art galleries.
• HAL09999’s productions have been internationally shown in New-York (USA), London (GB), Tokyo (JP), Paris (FR), Zurich (CH), Valencia (SP), and on multiple platforms on the Internet.

Social Media

• https://twitter.com/HAL09999
• https://www.instagram.com/hal09999/
• https://danslesnuages.xyz/

We are very excited that Genify has received a lot of attention from artists and collectors since it was launched on the Lambda mainnet. In order to connect with more and better artists and establish better market liquidity, Genify has launched the invitation code system for artists.New artists can become verified artists through the invitation code.

How to get the invitation code for being a new artist?

New Artists can obtain the invitation code in two ways:

1. By getting it from an artist who already possesses a code, ensuring that you establish a connection with our community’s core members.

2. By filling out the verification application form. Our support team will review your details accordingly.

Our team will complete the review and respond to you within 72 hours. If your application is approved, you will receive an exclusive invitation code.

For Verified artists ,how to get more invitation codes and earn more?

1. Successfully sell out a project on the Genify platform, meaning all items in the project have been minted, and then you will receive one invitation code.

2. For every additional 1,000,000 LAMB in trading volume of your works ,you will also receive one invitation code.

Associated Benefits:

When an artist gets verified and publishes a project on Genify using your invitation code, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:

1. For each minting of their works, you receive an additional 8% commission.

2. For each sale of their works, you receive an additional 2% commission.

How are shared royalties distributed now?

Primary Market: Artist — 90%, Inviter — 8%, Market — 2%

Secondary Market: Artist — 5%, Inviter — 2%, Market — 1%

How to use Invitation Code to become a Verified Artist?

1.Go to your profile page on the Genify (https://genify.xyz/account ).

2.Choose ‘Apply as an artist’,and fill in the Invitation Code you have got on the page and ‘Confirm’.

3.If your Invitation Code is available, there will be a prompt ‘Congratulations! You have successfully verified your account’.

4.After verifying successfully, you can create new collections at this stage.

How to check your Invitation Code ?

1.Return to your profile page (https://genify.xyz/account ) and go to ‘Invitation Code ’.

2.In ‘Invitation Code’ ,you will see your invitation code.

Write to you:

We are committed to building Genify into an open, vibrant, and innovative art community. If you are a generative artist, you can become a verified artist and release your own art collections through an invitation code.

We hope that every artist cherishes this community, and we wish to see outstanding art collections receive the recognition they deserve within the community. Therefore, we urge artists to treat every release with utmost seriousness, as this will directly influence your ability to release works on Genify multiple times.

Finally ,thank you for choosing Genify.

We look forward to thriving and innovating in generative art together with you!

Happy earning !

Hit us up if you have any questions or comments.

Website:https://genify.xyz/

Twitter:https://twitter.com/GenifyHQ

Discord:https://discord.gg/lambdanetwork

Genify (genify.xyz/ ) is an innovative multi-chain generative art platform incubated by Lambda. As a leading NFT platform in the field of generative art, Genify will officially launch on Conflux Network next week.

This collaboration with Conflux is a significant step towards expanding generative and crypto art into a broader market. Genify and Conflux will use Hong Kong as a hub to jointly foster the development of generative art in Asia and beyond. Together we will explore cooperation in the areas of encrypted art commercialization and brand digital assets.

Just as Tyler Hobbs, one of the most renowned artists in this field, said, “There’s a new art form on the rise. Generative art has existed since the 1960s, but the new on-chain generative art platforms are pushing the medium in an exciting new direction. While many of the generative techniques are the same, the goals for the program output are wildly different from before. The direct path from the script to the viewer, as well as the large number of iterations, encourages artists to create a special class of artistic algorithm, what I’ll refer to here as long-form generativism.”

Today, platforms like Art Blocks, fxhash, and Genify allow the artist to create a generative script (e.g., Fidenza) that is written to the Ethereum/Tezos/Conflux blockchain, making it permanent, immutable, and verifiable. Next, the artist specifies how many iterations will be available to be minted by the script. A typical choice is in the 500 to 1000 range. When a collector mints an iteration, the script is run to generate a new output, and that output is wrapped in an NFT and transferred directly to the collector. Nobody, including the collector, the platform, or the artist, knows precisely what will be generated when the script is run, so the full range of outputs is a surprise to everyone.

In the past two years, generative art has become mainstream among artists. Works like Fidenza have been sold through Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses, with individual works trading for several hundred thousand to millions of dollars. Among the collectors are many world-renowned museums and galleries. Generative art, as one of the most successful cases in the field of cryptocurrency, has been brought into the real world.

Meanwhile, artists from many countries and regions around the world are looking to enter the world of Web3 and art through blockchain and generative art. Genify has successfully curated and discovered many new promising artists and artistic groups from places like Brazil, France, and Taipei, China, and has also attracted Eastern art collectors to join the community of generative art collectors.

Currently, the primary distribution platforms for artists reside on the Ethereum and Tezos blockchains. However, Ethereum’s high gas fees have become a barrier for many artists looking to enter the generative art collection field. On the other hand, Tezos is not EVM-compatible.

To address these challenges, the Genify team has been searching for a blockchain that offers low gas fees, a supportive community atmosphere, and EVM compatibility. After careful consideration, they ultimately decided to choose Conflux.

Shaun8149, the founder of Genify, said, “We have been paying attention to Conflux since 2020, and we have noticed the advantages and progress of Conflux in terms of technology, community, and culture. Since 2023, Asia and Hong Kong have become the next most crucial areas for cryptocurrencies.Therefore, choosing Conflux is like choosing to stand on the side of the future.”

Chief Curator Jimi Wen from the community and artist Halo9999 spoke highly of Genify’s decision to join the Conflux ecosystem. Halo9999 gladly agreed to have their recent significant creations launched on Conflux. As an artist curated by Feralfile, Halo has shown support for the Genify community and the artist group through their actions toward Conflux.

Genify was founded by members 2211, 8149, and 6109 from the cryptopunk community. They are artists and collectors who, apart from collecting punks, also own a substantial amount of rare generative art pieces. For instance, the Fidenza 475 collected by 8149 is ranked fourth in rarity in the entire Fidenza series.

Genify originated as the world’s largest third-party community for generative art enthusiasts. The community was established for better discussion, learning, and research of generative art, and it received a $2 million investment from MultiCoin Capital in 2021 (the community was named Eyesfi at that time). It eventually evolved into a primary issuance platform for generative art, dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging and young generative artists, and allowing most people to obtain their first generative art collection at an affordable price.

Shaun8149 said, “In just two short years, the price of top generative artworks has risen from a few hundred dollars each to millions of dollars each. I still remember the excitement of an ordinary Uber driver in our community when they used their subsidy to buy their first piece of generative art. I want there to be more people like that, allowing more people to get exposed to and purchase generative art. That is our mission.”

About Conflux

Conflux is a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain connecting decentralized economies across borders and protocols. With a hybrid PoW/PoS consensus, Conflux provides a fast, secure, and scalable blockchain environment with zero congestion, low fees, and improved network security.

As the only regulatory-compliant public blockchain in China, Conflux provides a unique advantage for projects building and expanding into Asia. Conflux has collaborated with global brands and government entities in the region on blockchain and metaverse initiatives, including the city of Shanghai, McDonald’s China, and Oreo.

To learn more about Conflux, visit confluxnetwork.org

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艺术的发展是一个漫长而复杂的过程，每一种艺术形式都经历了从无到有、从简单到复杂、从单一到多样化的演变。于是天然地，审美标准混在艺术史的教条中成为我们评鉴艺术品的正则。这在许多情况下的确是有效的，但在面对生成艺术时，我们需要一个更原始的维度，即”艺术发生论”的维度。

艺术来源于人类的生产活动。我们以文学为例——

在原始时代，人与人之间的协作、交流成为族群繁衍生存的关键，语言也就应运而生并走向成熟。

语言的发展，提高了生产力，交流沟通使1+1的效果等于甚至大于2。接下来就如鲁迅先生所言”我们的祖先的原始人，原是连话也不会说的，为了共同劳作，必需发表意见，才渐渐的练出复杂的声音来，假如那时大家抬木头，都觉得吃力了，却想不到发表，其中有一个叫道’杭育杭育’，那么，这就是创作……他当然就是作家，也是文学家，是’杭育杭育派’“。从杭育声中，劳作的人们精神渐得舒缓，干劲又多了起来，于是我们可以说，艺术的发生来自于生产活动，其所依托的是生产的工具，而最终实现了生产力的再生产，或者说”提供了情绪价值”。之后随着社会规模地逐渐庞大，分工的日益复杂，专事艺术以提供情绪价值的人开始出现，即所谓”艺术家”，而在我们今天看来，艺术俨然已是独立的王国早就与生产无涉，艺术语言与生产语言是泾渭分明的。

当我用艺术发生论的视角理解生成艺术时，顿觉豁然开朗。在信息革命后，计算机成为最重要且最普遍的生产力工具之一（或许没有之一），这不仅仅为原来的艺术家提供了新工具，也使得一批数字原住民开始向艺术家转化 — — 作为这一新工具的资深上手者。此时，不带有艺术使命的”玩”，便是生成艺术的”杭育时刻”，也许传统艺术领域企图以”亚文化”来规训，但这显然低估了生成艺术所蕴含的潜力 — — 这是艺术发生级别的事件，我们正见证一件事物从生产工具向艺术的蜕变。

生成艺术最终呈现的形式可能是一段视频或一张图片，但其创作过程与传统的绘画和拍摄是有着根本不同的方式的。与其说生成艺术的创作者是一个画家，不如说他是一个”图像作曲家”。我们可以将代码与图像之间的关系形象地比作五线谱上符号与旋律之间的关系。如果说牛顿《自然科学的数学原理》将经验的物理世界导入了数学系统之中，使其可被通约计算，那么生成艺术所代表的正是我们对美的相同努力。

现阶段看来，这种努力至少有三个明确的趋向：

第一，呈现的不同视觉体验；正如摄影在器材的辅助下，可以提供与裸眼完全不同的视觉体验一样，生成艺术通过代码产生出不同的视觉奇观 — — 生成艺术底层的数学原理使得它直面了可运算的物理法则。

第二个趋向，是将一些过去无法直观感受的信息转化为可感的图像 — — 从数据中发现美。

在这一点上，最为直接的就是生成艺术对哈希值的使用。罗丹曾说”我们在米洛的维纳斯上看到了大理石。”，而我们则在生成艺术中看到了哈希。

第三个趋向是面对过去的 — — 将艺术史代码化。这不是简单地把图像、音乐数字化，而是用代码生长出作品，将经验的转化为数学的，用代码去复写艺术规则。这种方式与AI生成也有着本质上的区别 — — AI生成仍然是经验的延续，它包含着黑箱与跳跃。

Matt Perkins 在 Genify 上成功发布的新作 Arboretum 正体现了在这个方向上的努力。从视觉经验上说，绚烂而微妙的色彩令我感到仿佛正在欣赏一件遗失的莫奈原作；而更令人激动的是，Matt 并非在临摹印象主义，而是在用代码实现印象主义的数学规则。

为什么需要区块链？区块链为代码提供了原生的唯一性，此时我们才能说，代码有了不言自明的存在。在此之前的生成艺术创作，就宛如刻在流水中的造像，而区块链，则让代码变成了坚实的大理石。

在此基础之上，生成艺术的随机性具有了确定性的依托，这调和了商业与艺术之间矛盾 — — 在保留了生成规则无限可能性的同时，限定了”道成肉身”的数量，没错，我们仍为上帝仍保留了一席之地。

总之，如果将区块链比作时间之流，那么生成艺术，这种刻在区块上的艺术，便是给岁月以文明。

Genify 作为多链生成艺术平台，希望通过生成艺术构建 Web3 加密艺术的全新范式，建立东方生成艺术文化圈，以链接更多、更优秀的艺术家，并发掘更多尚未进入艺术 NFT 领域的人才。

当下，生成艺术需要更好的市场流动性。

因此，Genify 正式引入全新的共享版税交易协议和策展人制度，希望将生成艺术市场的增长红利回馈给社区、策展人、收藏家、艺术家和交易员。

以下是 Genify 2.0 的四大特性介绍:

共享版税交易协议

版税不应该成为成为阻碍平台发展的障碍，而应该成为社区共享、激励流动性、奖励藏家贡献的有效调控手段。因此 Genify 将集成创新的共享版税交易协议，并在此基础上构建了一个交易激励池，将这部分收入更多的激励参与交易的用户。

在共享版税交易机制中，除了传统的艺术家版税收入外，策展人和交易用户将充分享受繁荣的交易市场红利。

策展人制度

Genify 希望通过策展人制度形成良性发展的繁荣艺术家生态，打造 web3 艺术影响力网络并不断策展新的艺术家，推动平台作品获得更好的市场表现。策展人需要通过代币质押来获得策展 Token，并在后续的策展中消耗。策展人作为关键的艺术家推荐人和项目发行推广人，将获得其策展项目的部分交易收入。

繁荣的多链艺术生态

Genify 希望成为全球化的 Web3 生成艺术文化中心。除 Lambda 以外，将逐步接入Ethereum、Arbitrum、BSC、Polygon 等公链，通过生成艺术为 Web3 世界带入艺术和NFT的增量用户和收藏家艺术家群体。

在Genify，用户可以自由的通过不同的网络进行交易和收集生成艺术 NFT。

全栈 NFT 基础设施服务

Genify 依托 Lambda 去中心化存储网络的安全、快速、扩展性强的特性拓展更为丰富的生成艺术生态。

基于 Lambda 分布式存储技术，Genify 为生成艺术家和开发者提供了全栈的生成艺术测试模块、NFT 交易协议、NFT 发行协议和 NFT 存储服务，同时使用全新的 LWS（Lambda Web3 Service） 数据存储服务，以给用户带来安全快速可靠的用户体验。

在 Genify 上，艺术家可以高效的测试和创建自己的生成艺术集合，并为每个作品设定属性稀有度和 Meta Data，自由拥有或者同策展人合作发行和销售 NFT。

Genify 希望和社区、艺术家、策展人一起，彰显更优秀的艺术品牌，并探索更多的商业可能性。除加州的 Artblocks 和法国的 fxhash 以外，Genify 会成为诞生于亚洲的一支重要的艺术力量，成为全球最主要的艺术发行平台之一。

As a multi-chain generative art platform, Genify hopes to build a new paradigm of Web3 crypto art through generative art and establish an Eastern art ecosystem to connect with more and better artists, and discover more talent that has not yet entered the art NFT field.

At present, generative art needs better market liquidity.

Therefore, Genify officially introduces a brand new shared royalty transaction protocol and curator system in order to feed back the growth dividend of the generative art market to the community, curators, collectors, artists and traders.

Here are the four major features of Genify 2.0:

Shared Royalty Transaction Protocol

Royalties should not become an obstacle to platform development, but should become an effective means of regulating sharing within the community, incentivizing liquidity and rewarding collectors’ contributions. Therefore, Genify will integrate an innovative shared royalty transaction protocol and build an incentive pool based on it, which will motivate users participating in transactions with most of this income.

Under the mechanism of shared royalty transactions, in addition to the traditional artist royalty income, curators and trading users will fully enjoy the prosperity dividends of the trading market.

The Curation System

Genify hopes to form a prosperously developing ecology of artists through the curator system, building a web3 art influence network and constantly curating new artists to promote platform works to achieve better market performance. Curators need to obtain curation tokens through token staking and then consume them in curations. As key recommender of artists and promoter of project release, curators will obtain part of the transaction income from their curated projects.

Prosperous Multi-Chain Art Platform

Genify hopes to become a globalized Web3 generative art cultural center. In addition to Lambda, it will gradually connect Ethereum, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon and other chains, and bring incremental users and collector artist groups to the Web3 world through generative art and NFT.

On Genify, users can freely trade and collect generative art NFTs through different blockchains.

Full-Stack NFT Infrastructure Services

Genify leverages the security, speed and scalability of Lambda decentralized storage network to expand a richer generative art ecology.

Based on Lambda’s decentralized storage, Genify provides artists and developers with full-stack modules for generative art testing, NFT transaction protocols, NFT issuance protocols and NFT storage services. At the same time, the all-new LWS (Lambda Web3 Service) data storage service delivers a secure, fast and reliable user experience.

On Genify, artists can efficiently test and create their own generative art collections, and set attributes, rarity and meta data for each work. They are free to self-own or collaborate with curators to issue and sell NFTs.

Genify hopes to build better art brands and explore more business possibilities together with the community, artists and curators. Apart from Artblocks in California and FxHash in France, Genify will become an important artistic force born in Asia and one of the world’s major art platforms.

Artist Introduction

Arctic is a group of generative artists consisting of Zhi Bei You (Cc, Jin Cicheng) and Cosmic Boat (Van, Wang Qi), who focus on using mathematical and computer algorithms to simulate, explore, and develop new contemporary brush systems, as well as trajectory and structural algorithms to compose humanistic generative artworks. On November 22, they released their first generative art project based on p5.js: Hillhouse on Tezos generative art platform Fxhash.

Cicheng Jin, a generative artist, has an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship from the University of Bristol and is the founder of the Arctic Circle community. Originally a collector of Epigraphy steles and stickers, he has since transformed into a generative art collector and artist. He has experience in traditional Chinese calligraphy, an appreciation of the Epigraphy field, and development experience in quantitative investment and computer fields.

Wang Qi is a generative artist. He is a student of digital media technology at Jiangnan University.

Now he wants to learn everything and hopes to be able to do everything in the future and be qualified to fight hard with all the masters.

Arctic Masterpiece: Hillhouse

Link: https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/hillhouse

Natural noise as a mountain, overlapping shade into a house, Hillhouse starts from the most straightforward principle and goes to haze. The Berlin noise changes to fit the trend of the hill, and the gap in the middle of the hill makes it hazy; the irregular polygon stacking creates a halo effect, adding an oriental flavor to the roof.

Monogram

Monogram was an important form of authorization and encryption in many ancient civilizations, such as Cartouche, which represented the name of the pharaoh in ancient Egyptian civilization, Signum, which symbolized personal identity in ancient Roman civilization, and Huaya, an ancient Chinese form of personal signature. However, with the development of the times, such encryption methods of mapping personal identity have gradually shifted from tangible signatures and seals to de-visualized forms such as hashing in cryptography and its derivative blockchain domain names.

Admittedly, the shift to string mapping has greatly reduced the complexity of declaring people’s personal identities and ensured authenticity when mapping. However, individuality is gradually lost in this abstraction process. First, the information about personal traits that can be expressed in strings is very limited, while the information load of graphics is far greater. Second, in terms of people’s ability to remember, humans remember words much less than they remember graphics.

Therefore, I can’t help wondering: why can’t we map both? And if so, what form could be the vehicle for visualizing such a mapping?

Generative art is one of the best solutions. The randomness, diversity, and artistry of generative art, combined with blockchain domain names, allows the mapped graphics to generate aesthetically meaningful and iconic images in perpetuity and without repetition. Inspired by this, I created the project “Monogram”. In “Monogram”, the system will use a random movement of my original brush to pay homage and reminisce to the Monogram used in ancient times for signatures, evoking the original desire for individual expression in people.

The LNS, as a Web3 digital identity and its bundled generative artwork “Mongram”, also becomes a premium digital asset that domain holders can sell or lease for income.

Overall, LNS will simplify the complexities of wallet addresses and other data identifiers in the Lambda ecosystem, while offering some interesting commercial possibilities, thus becoming one of the key components for people to build their brand and identity on the Lambda network.