Genegeosis

Genegeosis is a curated collection of 930 generative geometric paintings by Siggi Eggertsson in collaboration with artificial intelligence (CLIP / VQGAN). The paintings are released as ERC-721 NFTs on the Ethereum Blockchain and hosted on IPFS.

Price: Ξ 0.1    Edition: 930

The Burning Storm
The Burning Storm

Mint

Genegeosis can only be minted through the smart contract on Etherscan. To do so click the following and follow the instructions below.

Guide

  1. Under Write Contract click Connect to Web3 to connect your Wallet
  2. Click the 3. mint and type 0.1 into the field "_amount"
  3. Hit Write and confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Optional: If you want to purchase more than 1 then go to the “4. mintMany” field and put in the number of tokens you want (up to 10 per wallet). Input the according amount of ETH (1.0 for 10 for example)

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Make sure that you only use links from this website and avoid scams. The correct contract address is 0x1e2586e1d3123e7b8c26a367725fab65111cee7b

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Gallery View
Wind And Rough Palace

Concept

Idea

I’ve been making art with geometric shapes for the past two decades. A picture always starts as an idea in my head and most of the time I can visualize it on canvas, although things always change a little. Iteration after iteration, until I feel it is complete. CLIP works similarly, using all the information it has in its brain, trying to create what is asked of it. My idea was to get the AI to make something that I thought of, and get results that I could have thought of, but didn’t.

Titles

The paintings are made by converting words into pictures. The words come from one of my favorite NFT projects called Various Books. Their randomized book titles often create great word combinations, and I thought this would be a good theme for this collection.

Modifiers

Modifier words such as Square, Circle, Portrait and Grid were randomly applied to each image. They break up the subject in different ways. Each painting also has a randomized seed number, so even though the modifiers are used on the same subject, the results will vary. Some paintings have no modifiers and others have a lot of them stacked.

Curation

I’m very interested in the future of art and creativity. Technical advancements have always pushed art in new directions and what’s happening now feels like an enormous leap. For Genegeosis I chose the number 930 because it is the numeric spelling of geo. I created a lot more images, however, the final 930 images reflect the best of the best.

Gallery View
Pure Spaces

Project Information

The Artist

Siggi Eggertsson is an Icelandic artist / designer based in Berlin, Germany. His work has been exhibited worldwide and featured in multiple publications. He has worked on projects for clients such as Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Dolby, The New York Times, Red Bull, Coca Cola, PlayStation, H&M and Stüssy. Siggi is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale.

Roadmap

This feels like the beginning of a beautiful partnership, and I have a lot of ideas to explore. At this stage I don’t want to commit to a roadmap. Art is art. But potentially the Genegeosis Tokens will give you early access to future releases.

Thanks

Thanks to my parents for enabling me as an artist. Thanks to 0xfff for the smart contract and website. Thanks to Various Books for inspiring the Titles. Thanks to OpenAI for making CLIP and thanks to Katherine Crowson and Ryan Murdoch for making the VQGAN.

Twitter & Discord

Follow @SiggiEggertsson on Twitter. Join the #geogenesis channel on the bktr.io discord server.