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DADABOTS is a musical duo whose creations blend art, code, and machine learning. They are known for merging underground music genres such as death metal, drum and bass, and hardcore punk with neural synthesis, developing tools that generate live music in real time, instantly creating new musical genres and redefining the meaning of performance.
Their work spans viral live streams, academic research, and global performances, all rooted in their belief that human-machine collaboration is key to advancing creativity.
This interview was conducted at Hotel Saint George Hall during the Art Blocks Marfa Weekend. DADABOTS shared how generative tools are reshaping music, why they embrace lo-fi sounds and unpredictability, and what continually brings them back to the Art Blocks community.

Bryan Brinkman is a multimedia artist whose work spans animation, illustration, generative 3D, and more. He has served as a producer on television shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show, bringing extensive television experience and a deep understanding of storytelling and audience engagement into the realm of digital art.
His recurring imagery and vibrant visual language interpret the ever-evolving creative landscape, while projects like BrinkWorks explore new models for sustaining artistic freedom and community.
The interview took place in the lobby of the Hotel Saint George during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Bryan Brinkman reflected on the challenges of creative sustainability and digital permanence, as well as the significance of his first involvement with the Marfa community.

Ben Kovach is a generative artist living in Williston, Vermont. His work explores the space between structured systems and spontaneous outcomes, deeply influenced by the traditions of minimalism and maximalism. He combines mathematical structures with visual intuition, utilizing the Haskell programming language to construct generative systems that ultimately evolve into complex and often large-scale artworks.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Ben Kovach shared how code, color, and community shape his creative process, as well as why Marfa remains a meaningful place for exchange and inspiration.

Artist Jimmy Griffith, also known as Remnynt, has a natural talent for creating exquisite artworks.
He was diagnosed with nystagmus in infancy, a condition that causes involuntary eye movement. He says he was drawn to hands-on art activities with intricate mazes and maps, where he could focus intently and pay close attention to visual tasks.
By the age of four, he began drawing mazes and maps for games he created for himself. By high school, he started programming games for friends using a TI-83 calculator.
Nowadays, Remnynt states that software is his artistic medium. His first encounter with generative art was in 2008 when he studied how computer graphics could recreate in real-time in the gaming world using mathematical algorithms and fractal geometry.

Rob Dixon, better known as Radix, transforms code into generative art that is both mind-bending and beautiful. Based in Marin County, California, Radix has been experimenting at the intersection of art, code, and video game design for decades.
His work can be found everywhere from Marfa to Paris, and even in the Metaverse, where he co-created the popular Decentraland game WonderZone.
Radix’s first Art Blocks work, “Inspirals,” draws viewers into a hypnotic cycle of movement and meditative concentration, with intricate patterns that demand close inspection, drawing you into the endless possibilities of geometry.

Colombian-American artist Jimena Buena Vida infuses catharsis into each piece she creates. As a self-taught digital artist, trained engineer, and mother of two, she merges her technical knowledge with strong emotional intelligence to create abstract generative art, inviting collectors to embrace healing and personal transformation.
Buena Vida was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and now resides in the U.S. Her mission is to inspire underrepresented artists to believe in their creative vision. Her series has sold out, including the generative art series 'Epiphanies' that deeply explores fundamental aspects of existence and the layered interpretations of identity, and her animated piece 'Where We Come From' gained attention in the 23rd Latin Grammy Awards® NFT series.

Jack Butcher's creative practice revolves around making the invisible visible. He examines the value system, ownership structure, and human behavior in the digital age through his minimalist yet conceptually rich works.
His work integrates design, market, and psychology, transforming ideas about how people create and assign meaning into art that is both analytical and deeply humanistic.
This interview took place in the lobby of the Saint George hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Jack Butcher shared his views on how digital permanence, collaboration, and ownership continue to shape creativity and connections.

London-based artist Anthony Heideman, better known as MountVitruvius or “MV,” has carved out a unique space in the field of generative art by incorporating personal memories and literary inspiration into his algorithmic creations.
His 999-piece “Mind the Gap” series is inspired by childhood games and exploration, and is released for the first time on generative art platform gm. Studio, while his “Render’s Game” series explores the iterative nature of cumulative achievement, paying homage to MV’s artistic journey and Orson Scott Card’s 1985 science fiction novel “Ender’s Game.”

Few artists have had such a profound impact on the discussion of generative art as Tyler Hobbs. His work explores how algorithms reflect the imperfections of nature and emotion, transforming code into a medium that connects the digital and physical worlds.
This interview took place in the lobby of the Saint George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Tyler Hobbs shared his thoughts on the evolving position of generative art in culture, the balance between machine and human aesthetics, and the enduring allure of creating art in Marfa.
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RalenArc is a multidisciplinary artist from the United States who has spent over 16 years honing her craft across various mediums, from murals to digital art. Her works blend the textures and organic shapes of nature, now precisely translated into code, making her pieces both captivating and profound.
Starting with traditional forms such as canvas and clay, RalenArc turned to generative art and quickly found her style. This transition allowed her to create complex designs that reflect her interest in the intersection of technology and nature.
She has published her works on platforms such as Sotheby's, Feral File, and ArtBlocks. Her artwork has been exhibited at renowned exhibitions during Art Basel Miami and the 2024 Bitcoin Conference, and showcased in galleries in Singapore, Amsterdam, Venice, Berlin, New York, London, and more.

In the early 21st century, Texas artist DeltaSauce grew up as a child who could spend hours in front of magazine shelves, flipping through glossy magazines filled with interior design layouts and bold cover art, finding unexpected inspiration in curated chaos.
DeltaSauce's father was a carpenter who built practical beauty from scratch. Therefore, he learned to view design as art and storytelling, a theme that now runs through his entire career.
At the 2024 Marfa art district weekend, DeltaSauce showcased his first installation artwork, a set of vintage CRT displays, which once were the focal point of living rooms in the 1990s. The artist repurposed these still-powered items as canvases for his AI works.

Neel Shivdasani is an artist and technologist from Atlanta, who creates generative art while leading AI innovation at the media software company Automattic.
Shivdasani has a professional background that includes working at top digital publishing and e-commerce platforms. His expertise in technology is undoubtedly undeniable, but his true creative passion lies in pushing the boundaries of using code as an artistic medium.
Shivdasani's first series, 'Tropism', was released on OpenSea in 2021. During the Marfa Art Blocks Weekend, he launched 'Motion Pictures', a series of 100 pieces that turned animated art into a tactile interactive experience, visible both on-screen and in prints.

Few artists can deal with generative code for over 25 years, but Harvey Rayner is one of those people. As a veteran of the generative art world, Rayner's work is both bold and ethereal.
His work features blocky geometric shapes and striking contrasts, balanced with soft pastel gem tones. This combination makes his works feel light yet powerful, somewhat like a film negative caught between light and shadow.
Rayner's 'Fontana' series was first generated on Art Blocks in 2022. It captures the flowing motion of fountains abstractly using generative code and represents it with static elements. Each output is generated from a carefully curated color palette.

James Merrill's algorithmic painting works cleverly blend code and craft; he collaborates with custom drawing robots to transform generative algorithms into tangible works that embody both precision and flaws. His artworks celebrate the unpredictable beauty of analog materials while exploring how technology gives digital creations a lasting physical presence.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where James Merrill discussed the role of emotion in his creative process, the value of imperfection, and how Marfa continues to inspire a spirit of experimentation and community among generative artists.

Jiwa is an artist living in Berlin, who creates captivating and expressive digital works using code as a medium to explore human experiences. Jiwa combines programming with painting to investigate how emotions, imperfections, and usability shape the ever-evolving relationship between art and the digital world.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Jiwa shared his insights on the unpredictability of generative art, its eternal significance, and how portraits can serve as a way to connect technology, community, and human existence.

Toronto-based artist Mitchell F. Chan has been creating thought-provoking public works since 2006, and as a result, his portfolio includes a range of conceptually cutting-edge pieces in the form of video games, gallery installations, and NFTs.
In 2017, Chan solidified his position as a pioneer in the NFT space when he exhibited one of the first tokenized blockchain artworks ever at a traditional gallery. The project, titled “Digital Zones of Immaterial Painterly Sensibility,” explored the construction of ownership itself as an experience, examining how the nature of the transaction affects the viewer’s relationship to art.