little boxes on the hillsides, child
on-chain NFTs, still images and animation
edition: 777
2021
Marketplace: Art Blocks
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little boxes on the hillsides, child
“little boxes on the hillsides, child” is a series of abstract suburban cityscapes powered by a program of LIA’s own design and development. Over the 25 years of her artistic career, LIA’s working process has typically involved as much intuition as it does engineering skill, and this piece is no exception. Growing from an initial Processing sketch by way of the artist’s careful selection of angles, transparencies, and line weights, a virtually infinite sequence of house-like forms appears and disappears. LIA conceives of her practise as a conversation between her own fluid concepts and the formal precision required of software code; when accidents or bugs appear, they are often treated as a part of this conversation and incorporated into the final work. In this piece the “cheeky blue” and “cheeky red” features arise from a bug in calculating the colour spread, and have been retained for their aesthetic contribution to the images. Taking inspiration from the song “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, this piece is a contemplation of houses and cities. The cyclical relationship between the construction of homes, the lands and environments they have replaced, and the ecosystems that will eventually replace them is echoed through an infinite production of geometric compositions. “little boxes on the hillsides, child” is the successor of “little boxes on the hillsides, mother”, presented in the exhibition “A Generative Movement” at bitforms gallery San Francisco, October 2–November 15, 2021. The NFTs minted on Art Blocks are the children of the “mother” work: brilliantly colourful, they are rendered in stillness as an artifact of the mother program’s generative output, whose ancestry can be activated on the Art Blocks website by pressing the ‘a’ key to reveal the animated process behind the production of the still image.
Properies
central hue
hue deviation
saturation
brightness
opacity
shape
rows
columns
strokes
frame
invert
Exhibitions
NFT Art Exhibition: “Singularity” – Generative Art
work: little boxes on the hillsides, child #326 and little boxes on the hillsides, child #651
curators: Florencia S.M. Brück, Javier Krasuk, Diego Lijtmaer and Simone Furian
list of artists: Alexis André, Nadieh Bremer, Darien Brito, Anna Carreras, Michael Connolly, Stefano Contiero, Simon De Mai, Matt DesLauriers, Julien Gachadoat, Kjetil Golid, Han x Nicolas Daniel, Marcin Ignac, LIA, Anna Lucia, Piter Pasma, Thomas Lin Pedersen, Samsy, Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez, Alida Sun, Shvembldr
Decentral Art Pavilion, Palazzo Giustiana Lolin, Venice, Italy – 2022/04/23 – 2022/06/20
The Ethereal Aether
The first virtual exhibition by the State Hermitage Museum
work: Little boxes on the hillsides, child #89
curators: Anastasia Garnova, Dimitri Ozerkov
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. – 2021/11/10 – 2021/12/10
Online walk through the online exhibition: