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Paolo Curtoni
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"Neural Prometheus" on Art Blocks
100 unique artworks - 0.025 Ξ
Sep 19 at 10:00 AM CET

www.artblocks.io/collection/n...

Responsive Dream 2025 Festival

with Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
September 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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"Neural Prometheus"
for Responsive Dream 2025 Digital Arts Festival,
sept. 19-21, 2025

with the great Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be

#algorithmicart #genart #generativeart #genartclub
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
September 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
paolocurtoni.bsky.social
Soon to be exhibited at Responsive Dreams Festival (by TGAM), in collab with Art Blocks Studio, my work together with that of other 7 artists I deeply admire:

Aleksandra Jovanić,
@amygoodchild.bsky.social
@bustavo.com
@hal09999.bsky.social
Julian Hespenheide
Manuel Lariño
@wblut.bsky.social
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity. Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought. The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine. The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity? The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
September 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
paolocurtoni.bsky.social
It's a pleasure to see my works exhibited in such a perfect location, along with other amazing works 🤩

Exhibition "BYOD²" – Digshibuya / Miyashita Park / Tokyo
February 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Subdivision
ˌsʌbdɪˈvɪʒən
noun
The process, instance, or state of being divided again following upon an earlier division
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#Subdivision #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genart #generativeart #plotter #vector #plotterart
February 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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One last contribution for this #genuary2025 day 31, Pixel sorting
With an open question:

Art for art's sake?

What do you think?

#genuary #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #generativeart #genuary31 #genuary2025
(prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )
January 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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One line that may or may not intersect itself.
"The Waste Land", by T. S. Eliot

#genuary day 25 (prompt credit: Bruce Holmer , Chris Barber , @heeey.art , @monokai.com )
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary25 #genuary2025 #poetry
January 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923.

Generative Architecture.
#genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture
January 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923.

Generative Architecture.
#genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht)
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Triangles and nothing else.
Pure black and white. No gray.

#genuary
days 13 and 14
(prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025
January 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
paolocurtoni.bsky.social
Triangles and nothing else.
Pure black and white. No gray.

#genuary days 13 and 14
(prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025
January 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#genuary day 12: Subdivision

Plotted on paper with fountain pen, two inks.

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary12 #genuary2025
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Recursive #subdivision of rectangles, governed by randomness and a raymarching soul

#genuary #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary12 #genuary2025
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Subdivision - #genuary day 12
(prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )

Each individual rectangle of the 37636 in this image is the result of dividing a larger rectangle into two parts.

#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary12 #genuary2025
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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#genuary day 8: Draw one million of something

Quoting William S. Burroughs, "Language is a virus from outer space", a million times.

#genuary08 #genuary2025 #genuary8
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart
January 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#genuary day 8: Draw one million of something
(prompt credit: @piterpasma.nl )

Quoting William S. Burroughs, "Language is a virus from outer space", a million times.

#genuary08 #genuary2025 #genuary8
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...In process :-)
January 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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..a detail of the physical drawing...
January 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#genuary day 4: Black on black
(prompt credit: @strangerintheq.bsky.social )

Plotted with black ink (over white ink) on black paper.

#genuary04 #genuary2025
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart
January 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#genuary day 1: Horizontal or vertical lines

#genuary01 #genuary2025
#genartclub #generative #algorithmicart
January 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Codification, Coercion, Resonance, Persistence. WIP
December 11, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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Happy of my bitframes #1899 by @mattdesl.bsky.social , and proud to support the www.generativefilm.io project ! 🙌
bitframes.io/gallery/toke...
December 9, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Working on inks blending...
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Perception, Cognition, Dominance, Resilience. WIP
November 28, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Topology, Hegemony, Meaning, Control, WIP
A work of algorithmic art. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMs. One of the classic algorithms used in coding the artwork is "space colonization". The artwork will be plotted on paper.
November 27, 2024 at 9:03 AM