Blog-02

I admire Mieke Marple’s personal connection to her generative art. She made a set of 2,500 NFTs called the “Medusa Collection”. The works are colorful sketch-like portraits of Medusa with rough brush layering. 25% of all the sales go to Steven Van Zandt’s national eduction profit, TeachRock.org. With a background in art school, acrylic, and colored metal leaf, Mieke had an existing style to bring to generative art. Mieke writes that watching data turn into beautiful hallucinations is reflective of what it is to be a human in the 21st century and the question of where the line is between human and computer brains.

Mieke created 6 Photoshop files for each head type, each with approximately 70 layers. Her algorithm then randomly chose a layer from each category to make the Medusa. The collection is selected out of 5.8 billion possible outputs.
Because of troubleshooting and permutations, Mieke had to leave the algorithm to do its thing and trust her intuition. Mieke considers that, “every one of the 2,500 Medusa NFTs was a very real extension of my physical body.”

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-making-generative-art-changed-understanding