Hello, I'm @greweb, a generative plotter artist. I hope you had a happy new year and that you'll stay healthy and happy throughout the coming year.

As a generative plotter artist, the past two years have been an exciting journey of exploration and collaboration. I've had the pleasure of meeting collectors and other artists in person (NFC Lisbon 2022), and even worked on some collaborative projects. On fx(hash), I introduced the concept of "Plottable NFTs" which act as tokens for redeeming a plot and can be openly used by other artists.

But I'm not stopping there. In the coming year, I plan to continue pushing the boundaries of plotted art and connecting it with collectors in new and innovative ways. Whether through asynchronous and decentralized collaborations or educational projects, my goal is to help people understand and appreciate the beauty and value of plotted art.

I'm always looking for new ways to engage with collectors and share my art, and I have a few ideas in mind for the next year that I think will be really interesting:

Continuing fx(hash) Artworks

I've found that working with the fx(hash) paradigm requires a lot of dedication to creating generators that produce high-quality, unique results. I'm also excited about the energy of the fx(hash) community and plan to continue working on big releases. We have a series of Plottable Era generators to create!

Interactive Plotting Streams on Twitch (and beyond)

I'm excited to announce a new experience for collectors: interactive plotting streams on Twitch. This is a collective art collaboration happening in real time and being physically executed by the robot. During these live streams, viewers can interact with the plotter through the chat and see their input have a real-time effect on the art being plotted. At the end of the stream, the resulting art piece will be given away to a random participant. The MVP of this project was completed a week ago and has already produced some interesting art pieces. You can check it out on twitch.tv/greweb. I plan to stream on wednesday and saturdays, maybe targeting different time zones too.

Connecting through Fragmented Art

Another idea I'm interested in exploring is creating a large art piece that is segmented into smaller pieces, each of which is part of a larger puzzle or a tile on a larger map. I won't reveal the big picture in advance, and collectors will have to find a way to connect with each other to discover what the art is all about. Collectors will be able to subscribe and provide a shipping address, and eventually they'll receive their piece of the puzzle from anywhere in the world.

Evolutive Generative Art

I've been previously exploring the idea of evolution in generative art – the idea that an art piece can be slightly mutated to create a variation of it. This isn't something that's commonly done in generative art, as most generators use a seeded RNG that produces totally different, unrelated numbers from one run to the next. This idea is similar to genetics and can be visualized as a vector moving in an N-dimensional space. Mutations can be animated as two successive frames that are slight translations of this vector. I'm curious to find ways to solve this and if fx(params) will allow this more.

"What you see is what you shop"

People often ask me if I have a shop, and the answer is yes and no. While I don't have a traditional physical shop, I do offer the ability to purchase physical plots of my art, via NFTs. However, I'm interested in diversifying this offering with more specific generators that allow collectors to act as private curators. These collectors will be able to order a plot by its hash, and only they will be able to see and know the hash used to order the plot. This means that it's statistically impossible for anyone else to find the same result. This approach allows collectors to play with the generator by refreshing it repeatedly, and maybe even discover something truly special to order as a plot. I think this approach will be particularly useful for generators that are very broad and open, and for which it's hard to "control" the quality of the output.

Conclusion

Thanks to everyone who has collected my art this year – it's been a blast! I'm always looking for new ways to connect with collectors and share my plotted art, and I hope that the paradigms I've outlined in this article have sparked your interest.

I welcome anyone to join me on this journey, whether as a collector or as an artist looking for other ways to connect to collectors. All of these ideas are open to collaborations and contributions, and I usually release my work as open source.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you'll join me in exploring the exciting world of generative plotter art!

What do you find most intriguing about the paradigms I've listed? Let me know on Twitter @greweb.