ÂPEX ~ is a generative landscape art project responding to the conditions of the Anthropocene, where the lines between what is possible and what is only imagined are constantly shifting.  Simplified circles give way to hyperreal spaces. It is unclear if at any point they resemble a landscape that one could actually inhabit.

At what point do abstract shapes start to resemble believable environments? Each viewer may experience this work differently, depending on where they draw the line between realism and abstraction, natural form, reality and fantasy.

While landscape art is traditionally understood to represent natural forms, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the natural and manufactured. When the code runs its course and a static picture emerges, a thin barrier seems to be crossed.

The work tests out the limits between reality and hyperrealism, between abstraction and surrealism, blurring distinctions between them.

Created by Ori Ben Shabat & Ronen Tanchum

APEX #0

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

Decagon #11999

An interpretation of the Decal by Kjetil Golid. A symbol of permissionless creativity. Series One.

Decal by Kjetil Golid #57

Manual Dutch Auction (DA): 150 · 100 · 70 · 50 · 40 · 35 every 8 minutes. Auction will stop changing price when non-reserves are fully minted.

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Nature’s wild flourish and untamed growth wondrously represent the exacting function of beauty — a function that is at once useful and infinitely creative. Perhaps nowhere is this delicate symbiosis better observed than in the flower, wherein a pure balance of physical fundamentals exists beneath ornate patterns and elaborate aesthetics.

Amongst the layers of undulating, vividly colored petals, attention-grabbing stigma and stamen, and lusciously decorative features, nature’s organic abundance and disorder disguises its masterful propensity for precision. Each of the flower’s components evolve through unpredictable interactions with an unwieldy natural environment, creating spectacular adaptations that emerge from the tension between what attracts.

Rococo painters appreciated the organic fluidity found in flowers and vegetal forms, using their joyful abundance to depict a break from the rigid and stoic period the artists hoped to leave behind. They sought to reframe perfection away from predictability and toward compositions as surprising as the natural world around them.

Thus, ‘Rococo’ is a generative distortion of an old tradition: a digital painting created entirely with code that interprets and processes the natural world’s dichotomies. This painting algorithm builds upon natural structures while melding and moving their colors beyond form, growing randomly organic iterations that are as perfect as they are imperfect.

Created by Ori Ben-Shabat & Ronen Tanchum @Phenomenalabs
Creative contributions from Tender @tender_art

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Technical Details:

- Mobile/GPU Intensive
- Press “s” to save a .png of the artwork in live view
- Press “p” to render a high res output + press “s” to save a printable .png

Rococo #90

APEX #155

An evolving generative art project, inspired by the longing to connect with nature. It explores the relationship between art, code and nature. - "Becoming the Mountains and Rivers". 
The series explores the mythic idea of a time that came before, when we were one with nature and ourselves. This landscape refuses to hold still. Instead, the viewer is asked to contemplate about being the constant in this ever changing space. They are the only thing that can create a true moment in an otherwise fluid and dynamic world. The piece invites viewers to become fully immersed in the landscape, to contemplate their own inner zen and to feel a sense of calm and peace as they watch the land, water, and sky move and flow. It is an invitation to appreciate the beauty of nature and to reflect on the endless yearning for completeness that we all experience at some point in our lives. Like a postcard that transports us to another time, or a memory that provokes feelings of longing and missing, "Longing" invites us to reconnect with ourselves and to find peace in the ever-flowing river of life in the current moment.

The piece uses generative code to create a space where one can appreciate the beauty of nature while gaining a new perspective on how we perceive art. Instead of presenting viewers with the conventional form of a painting’s static view-through-the-window, Longing takes viewers into a living and breathing artwork. Just as nature moves in patterns that we know how to anticipate but can’t predict, Longing also moves in ever-evolving patterns that are both comforting and surprising. In this way, Longing challenges the static nature of painting while testing out where digital art can take us—is this a form of art that is in sync with nature? Or does it take us further away by inserting additional layers of mediation? Longing does not answer these questions, but it helps us contemplate possible responses, and pushes us to reconsider the nature and purpose of art in the 21st century.

Technical details
Immersive~ The artwork would fit any format ratio and resolution, hit full screen to widen the view and experience the work in landscape formats.

Evolving~ Movement: Time lapse after draw starting at the featured time and transitioning to the local time of the work, when local time is settled the work will display the current time and evolve the sky with it. Accompanied with the slow movement of colors ramps in the landscape, and water rippling.

Output~ 
~Press "s" to save a .PNG file at any stage at current resolution. 
~Press "p" to render and save a high resolution .PNG file for print x3 current resolution.

Created and developed by Ronen Tanchum and Ori Ben Shabat

Longing #205

LOOPING NOISE

Longing #177

APEX #72

LOOPING NOISE #4/100

'Looping Noise'~

Genuary Day 1: Pefect Loop Made with code, #genuary2023 #generativeart #p5js

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Longing by phenomena

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APEX by phenomena

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Rococo

Move your mouse onto the work to control the pattern

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Interactive Grids

A digital talisman ~ protects and serves as an energy field,
an anti-bad vibe shield with unique features.


SHIELD FIVES #8

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SHIELD FIVES

Waves of feedback emerging higher grounds. 
creating landscapes, fields of color and breeds of roots.

GROUNDS ⛰️ #44

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GROUNDS ⛰️

A generative exploration of structure, color and shape. 
slices cutting through dimension of realities.

s ~ save

SLICES #17

SLICES #35

SLICES

VINES Collection 

Digital visualization of natural patterns,
The recreation of vine growth behaviors in zeros and ones.

VINES #4

VINES #1

VINES

An Optical Illusion from Phenomena Labs #001


Optical Illusion #001

Hic et Nunc

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GENZ

Versum

Rococo 478 Diffusion Artifact, Rococo + ai
Reimagined by a custom trained Bloom ai model.

Rococo 478 Diffusion Artifact

Artifacts is a collection of generative sketches and ideas algorithms but never made it to the final code.

Rococo 288 Diffusion Artifact, Rococo + ai
Reimagined by a custom trained Bloom ai model.

Rococo 288 Diffusion Artifact

Artifacts

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Optical Illusion #002

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We’re thrilled to announce:  'Eternal Tides' a generative art project by phenomena
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An animated generative art piece, dynamically connected to the blockchain to create a new, rhythmic wave pattern every day.

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