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Peter Bauman
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April 17, 2024
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Michael Kozlowski on Exploration as Practice
Intrigued by Michael Kozlowski's recent visual pivot, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) had an impromptu chat with the artist, also known as mpkoz. They discuss the unique project that sparked this visual shift, its technical specifics and the implications for Kozlowski's continued trajectory.
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Peter Bauman
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April 16, 2024
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Bright Moments on Prioritizing the Personal
As Bright Moments concludes its three-year global tour at the 2024 Venice Biennale, they release the ambitious Finale Collection, showcasing the works of over sixty artists on a single contract. Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) engaged with the Bright Moments team and participating artists, delving into the project's key themes and the organization's future. The discussion included Seth Goldstein, Phil Mohun and Samer Dabra (Spongenuity) from Bright Moments, together with artist and Art Blocks Founder Erick Calderon (Snowfro), as well as artists Maya Man, Anna Carreras and Piter Pasma.
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Peter Bauman
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April 10, 2024
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Matt DesLauriers on Challenging the Image
Acclaimed software artist Matt DesLauriers spoke to Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about the implications of AI's prevalence. They examine how DesLauriers has begun incorporating AI into his process and how AI challenges our relationship with the image.
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Vuk Ćosić
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April 4, 2024
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The memoir of a net.art memoir!
In 2014, Vuk Ćosić wrote a memoir-like introduction for the catalog of his exhibition, net.art painters and poets. Ten years later, the text resurfaced during a dialogue between Ćosić and Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). The two decided to revisit the text with Bauman posing casual questions that serve as a vehicle for Ćosić's updated thoughts. It's the memoir of a memoir.
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Peter Bauman
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March 27, 2024
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Emily Xie on Textile as Personal Canvas
Visual artist Emily Xie spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about her close relationship with textiles, their intersection with computation and coded generativity's aesthetic pursuits.
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Peter Bauman
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March 21, 2024
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Demystifying Generative Aesthetics
This is the second part in a series on building a framework for appreciating generative art. In the first part, “Demystifying Generative Art,” Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) builds the case for such a framework. In this essay, he takes a closer look at one of the five framework components, Results—the outputs of a generative system. Peter spoke to Tyler Hobbs, Kim Asendorf, Andreas Gysin, Leander Herzog, Erick Calderon, William Mapan, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Sougwen Chung, Christiane Paul, Patricio González Vivo, Linda Dounia and Golan Levin for the piece.
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Mark Wilson
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March 14, 2024
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Commentary by Mark Wilson
In part two of Le Random Editorials' profile on Mark Wilson, we hear from the artist himself. In this brief commentary, Wilson narrates art history as he describes his journey from traditional mediums to digital art, exploring technology for creativity's sake. In this generous insight, Wilson reveals the path that led to his visionary computer-generated aesthetic, both bold and sensitive.
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Travess Smalley
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March 12, 2024
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Travess Smalley Profiles Mark Wilson
Digital generative art titan Mark Wilson sat down with artist, educator and pixel rug creator Travess Smalley, long-inspired by Wilson. Smalley stewards a lively discussion covering Wilson's artistic journey while reflecting on the impact of technology on art.
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Peter Bauman
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March 6, 2024
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Mona Lisa to monogrid
How did we transition from art that looks like Leonardo’s Mona Lisa to art like Kim Asendorf’s monogrid? Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) investigates the history of art's mechanization to contemplate the future of digital generativity.
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Peter Bauman
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February 26, 2024
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Molnár's Paris
Vera Molnár moved to Paris at the end of 1947 and would call the city home for the rest of her storied life. Use our interactive map to follow in her footsteps across the French capital and discover the entwined narrative of artistic evolution and urban existence that defined her practice.
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Elisabeth Sweet
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February 20, 2024
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machine rêverie
Human-machine interaction artist aurèce vettier discusses the latent space of dreams and the intersection of human consciousness and AI art with Elisabeth Sweet, using his project le travail des rêves as a starting point.
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Peter Bauman
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February 19, 2024
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Linda Dounia on Memory Machines
Artist Linda Dounia spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about the potential of AI to combat cultural as well as biological loss, using her project Flore Perdue as a springboard.
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Peter Bauman
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February 13, 2024
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Lauren Lee McCarthy on Software Values
Lauren Lee McCarthy, celebrated artist, UCLA professor and creator of p5.js, spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about Seeing Voices, her first long-form generative art project. They also discuss collaborating with AI and inclusive community building, while questioning the inherent values embedded in software.
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Peter Bauman
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January 29, 2024
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Christiane Paul on Curating Cohen’s AARON
Christiane Paul's curation of the Whitney's Harold Cohen: AARON informs a conversation with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), where they discuss Cohen's persistent impact to this day while reflecting on the nature of digital expression.
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Peter Bauman
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January 25, 2024
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Sasha Stiles on Writing Poets
Metapoet and language artist Sasha Stiles sat down with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) and Conrad House (Nemo Cake) to discuss the integration of words, AI and technology into her own practice, while exploring the historical context of generative poetry.
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Peter Bauman
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January 16, 2024
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Maya Lin on Systematic Naturalism
Maya Lin, celebrated artist, architect and environmental advocate, discusses the concerns of generative art with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), including her recent foray into the practice, an unexpectedly natural step in her highly awarded and celebrated career.
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Peter Bauman
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January 10, 2024
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Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs
Artist and educator Golan Levin dips between anecdote and insight with Monk Antony (Peter Bauman), covering Levin's Art Blocks Curated release Cytographia, his drive to unleash the latent capabilities of computers and his role inspiring and promoting open-source art toolkits.
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Peter Bauman
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December 12, 2023
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Tyler Hobbs on Algorithmic Aesthetics
Using the essays of Tyler Hobbs as a reference point, Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) spoke to Hobbs about coded generative art's aesthetics.
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Peter Bauman
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December 5, 2023
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AGH on Glorifying the Computer
AGH, the trio of Kim Asendorf, Andreas Gysin and Leander Herzog, spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) before their debut show in Berlin, covering the group's formation, the digital aesthetic and glorifying the computer.
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Peter Bauman
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November 30, 2023
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Snowfro and Ciphrd on a Symbiotic Relationship
In conversation with the founder of Art Blocks, Erick Calderon (Snowfro), and founder of fx(hash), Baptiste Crespy (ciphrd), Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) reflects on the trenchant moment that is November 2023 for on-chain generative art.
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Peter Bauman
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November 21, 2023
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Operator on Human Unreadable
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) explores an emerging conceptual shift in on-chain generative art, signaled by the postmodern generative choreography of Operator’s Human Unreadable. Monk then speaks to the duo about the historical influences of the 2023 Lumen Prize-winning project.
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Peter Bauman
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November 15, 2023
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Ten Moments in South American Generative Art History
After consulting with artists and contacts, Le Random's Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) compiled a poster for Bright Moments Buenos Aires, designed by Qian of Bright Moments. The poster memorializes these ten moments in South American generative art history. The moments can also be found in a permanent section of our larger Generative Art Timeline.
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Ana María Caballero
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November 1, 2023
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Ana María Caballero’s Paperwork
Given the open-ended prompt to manipulate a Le Random editorial page as a blank canvas, Ana María Caballero shares the intimate infrastructure of her project, Paperwork.
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Virginia Valenzuela
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October 24, 2023
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Concrete to Generative: “Real Space” Explorations in South America
Virginia Valenzuela explores generative art's roots in South American concrete art.
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Peter Bauman
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October 18, 2023
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William Mapan on Breaking the Medium
William Mapan converses with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about the deep connections he maintains with his algorithms.
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Nathaniel Stern
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October 12, 2023
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Il(Lumina)ting Marfa
Artist and writer Nathaniel Stern meditates on Jason Ting's Lumina against the backdrop of Marfa's art-rich history and natural wonders.
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Peter Bauman
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October 5, 2023
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Sougwen Chung on Us in Another Form
Multidisciplinary artist Sougwen Chung delves into her unique contributions to the exhibition GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, the evolving discourse on human-machine interconnections and more with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony).
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Mark Webster
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September 28, 2023
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On Craft, Art & Programming
Artist Mark Webster suggests that in order to better understand art’s value, we must be willing to consider the function of craft, including elements of skill less visible or immediate.
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Peter Bauman
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September 26, 2023
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Rhea Myers on Code as Cultural Material
Artist, hacker and writer, Rhea Myers, discusses her thoughtful contributions to the group exhibition GEN/GEN: Generative Generations and more with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). Myers unravels her artistic practice, touching upon code-as-narrative, "Blockchain Aesthetics" and the dialogue between her work and Harold Cohen's AARON.
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Peter Bauman
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September 20, 2023
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DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence
DEAFBEEF reflects on themes such as the tension between permanence and impermanence in his work HASHMARKS, released through Bright Moments. He also ruminates with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) on celebrating the singularity of the present plus finding agency in life and art.
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Peter Bauman
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September 13, 2023
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Maya Man on Generative Meaning
Maya Man, an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the Internet, sat down with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). Using Man's exhibition and project I'm Feeling Lucky on Verse as a jumping off point, they discuss horoscope culture as a belief system, finding meaning in randomness, the role of humor in art and much more.
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Peter Bauman
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September 6, 2023
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Timeline Chapter 1: Ten Top Moments
Spanning tens of thousands of years, Chapter 1 of our Generative Art Timeline surveys the advancements in art, mathematics, science and computing history that led to the modern era of generative art. This article distills the chapter into ten critical moments.
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Peter Bauman
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August 30, 2023
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The Zach Lieberman Commission
Le Random commissioned six unique works from Zach Lieberman in 2023 that highlight what we love about the artist: his use of light, geometry and rhythm. We asked Lieberman to give us his thoughts on each of the six pieces, which we are sharing here.
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Peter Bauman
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August 24, 2023
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Decoupling Generative Art with Philip Galanter
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) reflects on Philip Galanter's classic 2003 definition of generative art before briefly speaking with the artist, Texas A&M professor and theorist about the definition twenty years later.
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thefunnyguys
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August 9, 2023
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Kate Vass on Rethinking Art Collecting
Kate Vass, founder of Kate Vass Galerie in Zürich, visits with thefunnyguys in an effort to uncover her motivations and vision for this space.
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Peter Bauman
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August 2, 2023
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Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art
Resonance can refer to qualities of sound and acoustics as well as the power to evoke deep emotions. Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) speaks with Zach Lieberman, artist, MIT professor and co-founder of openFrameworks, about generative art's relationship to music as well as its ability to make us feel something.
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Peter Bauman
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July 26, 2023
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The Evolving Platform Ecosystem
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) shares the findings from an internal Le Random research memo by Conrad House (Nemocake) on platform proliferation.
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Peter Bauman
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July 20, 2023
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Demystifying Generative Art
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) develops a framework for appreciating and analyzing generative art through an investigation of the movement’s locus of artistic intent.
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Elisabeth Sweet
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July 12, 2023
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Generations of Verse
Elisabeth Sweet touches on the history of generative poetry and its impact to this day.
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Peter Bauman
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July 5, 2023
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Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2
In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, the Le Random team speaks with Casey Reas, artist, UCLA professor and co-founder of Processing and Feral File. We touch on a variety of subjects, including historical generations, the most overlooked decades and the location of artistic intent in generative work.
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Peter Bauman
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June 22, 2023
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feels like home: A Curatorial Statement
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) recently curated the fxhash exhibition, feels like home, in partnership with Non Fungible Conference, 2023.
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Peter Bauman
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June 22, 2023
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Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 1
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, the Le Random team speaks with Casey Reas: artist, UCLA professor and co-founder of Processing and Feral File. We discuss the history of generative art: the overlooked importance of experimental video art, unexpected catalysts of the movement and more.
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thefunnyguys
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June 22, 2023
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Le Random: An Origin Story
On March 8, we publicly announced the launch of Le Random, a digital generative art institution that aims to collect, contextualize, and elevate on-chain generative art.
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