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After much thought, I have decided to focus as a broker on early digital art. From Vera Molnar, Nake, Mohr, Jodi to Harm van den Dorpel. Looking for a specific digital artwork? Approach me!

Did you know the first exhibition of computer art happened in 1965? 'Generative Computergrafik' in Stuttgart (Georg Nees)? No one called it 'art' yet... but history did. #ArtTech

Early digital artists worked with machines that filled entire rooms and had less power than your phone. Yet they created timeless works that still influence NFT artists and AI generators today. Respect the roots. #DigitalArtHistory

The computer nude that shocked the world: In 1967, Kenneth Knowlton & Leon Harmon created 'Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I)' at Bell Labs. It even made the New York Times front page. Digital art went mainstream (sort of). #ComputerArt"

@brachlandberlin Correct! And in a short period a Vera Molnar is far more expensive than a Squiggle.

to set things in perspective: for the price of one Squiggle (essential a generative branding in a series of 10.000) you could buy a unique physical work by either Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar or Joseph Beuys

Before Photoshop or NFTs, there was early digital art. In 1965, Frieder Nake created one of the first algorithmic prints: Hommage à Paul Klee. The computer didn't just draw it co-created. The birth of generative art. #DigitalArt #ArtHistory"

In May 1967! Studio International ran one of the earliest mainstream articles on computer art by Jasia Reichardt. She explored how machines were becoming creative tools. A key milestone in recognizing digital art 🖥️.

Proud to present the new show Senescenence of @harmvddorpel in collab with @drmiminguyen in New York. A few screenshots as a sneak preview. Visit the opening at Friday April 3! Sent me a dm if you want to see more or an invitation for the opening.

Did you know one of the 20th century's greatest painters was also a digital art pioneer? David Hockney (b. 1937) blended tech with creativity long before it was trendy, influencing today's digital art artists. His legacy? Proving art evolves with tools. Send me a DM for his digital art. Let's dive in! #DavidHockney #DigitalArt /1

Harm van den Dorpel on Rafael Rozendaal and comparisons of their art and personality: “I think Rafael's strongest point is his consistency, and that is also what has propelled him, I think… When we both still lived in Amsterdam we would often meet and talk… consistency in that each work is a slight variation of the previous, his work seem like iterations of a single thread over time… I am more easily distracted and step into sidestreams” Rafael Homage to the Square, and Harm’s Mutant Garden Seeder below (from the CSA collection)

This is such an important thing to understand about ownership of digital art. An owner of a digital artwork is tending a public good, not locking it behind private gates.

Chromie Squiggles Institutional Footprint: 2020 — Present Steven Miller: "The better the collections the more highly respected the museum, and new acquisitions are the spiritual manna that prove an institution's worth." From Selling Items from Museum Collections, 1997.

@CSA2D7 It is really one of the best digital artworks of this era

The following excerpts are from Thisispaper regarding harm van den dorpel’s mutant garden seeder • MGS uses an algorithm called 'Cartesian genetic programming', invented approximately twenty years ago by Julian F. Miller and Peter Thomson • Although the result of Harm's specific use of this algorithm is also two-dimensional, the algorithm is versatile and can also generate completely different systems, such time based media, human language or three-dimensional structures •When a mutant was minted, the transaction hash of the current Ethereum block was taken as a seed. This seed determined both the appearance of the artwork and the frequency of its mutation • After birth, every artwork mutates based on on its own rhythm. The result is an evergrowing sequence of SVG files of the birth and mutation states, that can be deterministically recalculated. As each mutant is a simple computer program, they can be executed in the browser, responding to resolutions and aspect ratios (the artist calls this 'the phenotype-affecting environment') • Re: the evergrowing sequence of SVG files of the birth and mutation states, Harm stated “I wanted to highlight the evolutionary progress in this recent history of computation, approaching it as algorithmic archeology. Each new innovation in this lineage aimed to improve or declare its predecessor obsolete, yet would simultaneously stand on its shoulders”

@Noahbolanowski I know of one available.

@newrafael Im obsessed with this thing

Raster has a new homepage. 👇 So far, Raster has been a website you visit when you're actively looking for something. But we also want to help collectors stay up to date with what's going on in the digital art space. 🧵

Most people sell you art; I help to build you a digital art thesis. My goal: help crypto-native collectors turn digital buys into a coherent, museum-grade digital art collection—rooted in history, fluent in crypto, and positioned for the long term.

Proud that I could connect @newrafael and @fellowshiptrust this fall.

So many worthy NFTs did not make this list, I never want to do this again. CSA’s Top 50 NFTs of 2025, I think:

Onchain flex is cool, but have you ever owned the prototype language your NFT is speaking? Generative art didn’t start with Solidity; it started with artists hacking machines that weren’t built for art. The real “season 0” of generative NFTs happened decades before Ethereum.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the window to onboard nocoiners is largely closed Our generation is already aware of crypto. Most people have interacted with it in some form. If they’re not fully onboard by now, it’s unlikely they suddenly will be Digital art, on the other hand, remains largely unexplored. I have plenty of normie friends who are genuinely engaging with the art, while still recoiling the moment crypto or meme coins come up That contrast feels important

Tyler Hobbs FaceTiming with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, a legendary curator who was a museum director of multiple institutions, best known for curating documenta (13). We had to call Tyler because she wanted the specifics of the code, and Tyler pulled up his screen and showed her every detail. Such a lovely convo - big thanks to @beeple for the intro 💕