artist, coder, vibecoder
new york
Joined April 2021
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the community has spoken / written🙏🌵🖤
31 chapters written:
a perfectly executed performance score!
turning the page on this year's Marfa event with much gratitude to @artblocks_io for the space to build this, to my talented & lovely collaborator @rapha_nyc for the shared vision, and to everyone who showed up and shared a piece of their voice〜*
now we turn the chapters into a book!
🌵 🩷 📚
ALT *test output for Desert Syntax rendered prior to the live event, pilgrim mode.
Marfa, it’s over!
Thank you so much to everyone who visited us at the Artist Fair! You contributed wonderful words and added powerful chapters to the Desert Syntax story. 🙏🖤🌵
Next: the generative book, ETA Nov 21st!
Merci! Gracias! Thank you!
With @aethersovereign
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
soooooo cool
1st chapter written by none other than @OGtheperson the legend (and the person) - thanks for playing 🙏🖤
1st chapter written by none other than @OGtheperson the legend (and the person) - thanks for playing 🙏🖤
🌵Desert Syntax : see you today from 11am to 3pm at the Artist Fair in Marfa!
🔖 Bring your bookmark (or pick a new one)!
with @aethersovereign
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
Please come visit us today at the ephemeral Bureau of Desert Syntax at the Artist Fair between 11am - 3pm 🌵💚
✦ Language becomes a shared space in Desert Syntax by @aethersovereign and @rapha_nyc. Created for Art Blocks Weekend, the project turns participants’ words into a collective text, recorded onchain through Art Blocks’ ABX protocol.
aethercavendish.substack.com…
🌵Desert Syntax : see you today from 11am to 3pm at the Artist Fair in Marfa!
🔖 Bring your bookmark (or pick a new one)!
with @aethersovereign
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
✦ Language becomes a shared space in Desert Syntax by @aethersovereign and @rapha_nyc. Created for Art Blocks Weekend, the project turns participants’ words into a collective text, recorded onchain through Art Blocks’ ABX protocol.
aethercavendish.substack.com…
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
Conservation of Energy
Today, Friday 10/23
11-3pm
Artist Fair at St. George Hall
@artblocks_io Marfa Weekend
About this project ✍🏽
happy to see Regenerate resurface! 🩷💙
thank you Ivana!
I've just collected "regenerate 1 year anniversary edition" by @rapha_nyc on @TeiaCommunity platform
teia.art/objkt/858281
Balance is everything 🧑🩰
Rapha Mey (@rapha_nyc) on IOR, his only 1/1 of 2026: a code-made glass vessel that lets red and blue pass through each other, made for Searching for Balance by @accomparts on @objktcom.
catalogue.gallery/blog/rapha…
Activation in Motion
Desert Syntax follows this lineage.
Before the generative machine is set in motion, the authorial intent is rooted in Fluxus: physical prompts, written by hand & printed on bookmarks, distributed to participants to activate the work!
With @rapha_nyc for @artblocks_io Marfa 🌵
ALT "Light Piece" (1963) by Yoko Ono
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
the score,
the system,
the co-authored text
co-created with @rapha_nyc
for @artblocks_io 🌵🩷📚
aethercavendish.substack.com…
I wanted to share a bit of my thinking behind IOR, my work for Searching for Balance. When @MCHX17 asked me to contribute to this auction, I thought about my current obsession with "virtual glassware": reflection, refraction, absorption. It's a very fertile terrain for me, as it allows me to experiment with shapes that would not be conceivable IRL, but also it opens up experimentation with regards to different indices of refraction, which command how light bends as it enters a new material.
A different train of thought was also going through my mind. I think a lot about the political situation, here in the US and around the world, and how difficult it has become for people of either side to talk to the other side. In the US, the left and right are traditionally represented by the blue and red colors. For a long time I've wanted to make a work that represents this divide, but also inspires to break away from it. In IOR, the blue and red dominate the background, but the glass vessel shows both colors going through it as the camera moves around. Maybe this suggest that, with a little change of perspective, we could understand other people's views better? This is not pretending to be a solution of any kind, but just a reminder that our point of view is not universal.
Finally, the shape itself is made from simple operations. Rather than refine a perfect curve, I'm making volume through boolean operations: here, a torus is subtracted from a sphere, and the subtraction is smoothed. Again, the idea is not to get perfection, but to rediscover how simple principles can yield (hopefully) beautiful results.
Sorry for the long text, I hope you learned something about the way I think about my work. Thanks for reading!
Searching for Balance // Generative Art
Auction Results 👁🗨
➢ 13 artworks presented
➢ 3 artworks collected
➢ 4.1K XTZ total trading volume
🏆 Top lot: State in Transition // 2K XTZ
Congratulations to all participating artists, and sincere thanks to every collector who supported this chapter ♥︎
Exceptional artworks are still available to collect ⭣
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
Searching for Balance // Generative Art
Auction Results 👁🗨
➢ 13 artworks presented
➢ 3 artworks collected
➢ 4.1K XTZ total trading volume
🏆 Top lot: State in Transition // 2K XTZ
Congratulations to all participating artists, and sincere thanks to every collector who supported this chapter ♥︎
Exceptional artworks are still available to collect ⭣
Rapha Mey🗽 retweeted
gm! I'm packing for Marfa. How many 🌵🌵🌵 should I put in my bag?
-- Desert Syntax - Oct 24 - Artist Fair ---
gm! I'm packing for Marfa. How many 🌵🌵🌵 should I put in my bag?
-- Desert Syntax - Oct 24 - Artist Fair ---
