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Paolo Curtoni

@paolocurtoni.bsky.social
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Art, Waves, Language, Code

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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"Orígens", an infinite animation, an endless sequence of frames, never repeating. Code crafted in vanilla TypeScript and GLSL, no libraries, no frameworks, no external programs. #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #ComputerArt #CreativeCoding
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*Origens* is a generative animation in dialogue with *Tapestry I* (1976) by Ken Knowlton and Lillian Schwartz. The computer artist "conceives a process and then proceeds to construct the process which in turn constructs the work." The program is the thought, the image is its consequence.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Lifeform - Autolysis . . . (vanilla typescript & glsl) . . . . genuary day 27 #genuary27 #genuary2026 #genartclub #generative #generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart #purecode #digitalart
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Transparency #genuary day 23 [vanilla typescript & glsl] #genuary23 #genuary2026 #generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
One line. An artwork that is made of a single line only. (prompt credit: @josvromans.art ) #genuary day 20 #genuary20 #genuary2026
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Order and disorder #genuary day 16 Heraclitus, Fragment B124 (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) #genuary16 #genuary2026 🧵
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Self portrait (prompt credit: @josvromans.art ) #genuary day 13 #genuary13 #genuary2026 I fed my photo portrait into an AI, and it returned p5js code meant to replicate it. Like asking a machine to guess the syntax of a result that already exists. A worthless creation... 🧵
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Crazy automaton. #genuary day 9 Deterministic linguistic cellular automaton: letters appear only if they form an English word with existing letters; they die after N generations or when no longer part of any word. No randomness except the initial seed. #genuary9 #genuary2026
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A City. #genuary day 8 #genuary8 #genuary2026 A city made of words, the words of the great book "Le città invisibili" (Invisible Cities) by Italo Calvino.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Boolean algebra. Recipe: boolean operators AND/OR/XOR/NOT, selected from a noise field and applied bitwise to overlapping true/false regions. #genuary day 7 #genuary7 #genuary2026
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Lowres #genuary day 4 #generative #generativeart #algorithmicart #codeart #purecode #genartclub #genuary4 #genuary2026
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Fibonacci forever. #genuary day 3 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genuary3 #genuary2026 A representation of the Fibonacci sequence as a single long line. The recipe: 🧵
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Fibonacci forever. #genuary day 3  #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genuary3 #genuary2026 A representation of the Fibonacci sequence as a single long line.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
One color, one shape. #genuary day 1 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genuary1 #genuary2026
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
One color, one shape. #genuary day 1 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genuary1 #genuary2026
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Piter Pasma @piterpasma.nl · 16/12/2025
YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome #genartclub #generative #creativecoding
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It is a great pleasure and a great honor to be mentioned on the same page with these other artists whom I deeply respect www.artblocks.io/articles/res...
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Responsive Dreams Barcelona Features 8 New Art Blocks Studio Releases
Responsive Dreams Digital Arts Festival in Barcelona showcases 8 new generative artworks released on Art Blocks Studio, exploring the concept of animated digital dreams.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"Neural Prometheus" on Art Blocks 100 unique artworks - 0.025 Ξ Sep 19 at 10:00 AM CET www.artblocks.io/collection/n... Responsive Dream 2025 Festival with Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity.
Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought.
The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine.

The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. 
What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity?  
The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Neural Prometheus" for Responsive Dream 2025 Digital Arts Festival, sept. 19-21, 2025 with the great Aleksandra Jovanić · @amygoodchild.bsky.social · @bustavo.com · @hal09999.bsky.social · Julian Hespenheide · Manuel Lariño · @winterbloed.be #algorithmicart #genart #generativeart #genartclub
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity.
Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought.
The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine.

The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. 
What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity?  
The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Soon to be exhibited at Responsive Dreams Festival (by TGAM), in collab with Art Blocks Studio, my work together with that of other 7 artists I deeply admire: Aleksandra Jovanić, @amygoodchild.bsky.social @bustavo.com @hal09999.bsky.social Julian Hespenheide Manuel Lariño @wblut.bsky.social
When Prometheus defied the gods and gave us the flame of language, we learned to speak, to build, and to remember. That spark ignited our minds, elevating us to humanity.
Now we are passing that gift to another creature, opening the gates to an infinite city made of words, streets of writing, squares of thought.
The gift passes from hand to hand: from the gods to us, from us to the machine.

The Promethean flame now takes the form of training datasets, vast archives that teach machines to speak. In _Neural Prometheus_, a shard of this very dataset becomes a visual object, a territory algorithmically colonized by neuron-like creatures, the primitive building blocks of thought. 
What form does the space of meaning take? Who colonizes it? What semantic transformations occur there? Are we giving away our humanity?  
The colonization of thought begins when someone appropriates our meaning for purposes we never negotiated.
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Luis Fraguada @luisfraguada.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🌺 normalhibiscus.gif 🌺 normalhibiscus.gif This work was created for the ACTZ Art Commission Gallery, Feb 2025 'Nostalgia' Exhibition. Curated by Scottx Minted @teia.bsky.social Auction @objkt.com My first mint a almost a year and maybe my first auction! Details below👇
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It's a pleasure to see my works exhibited in such a perfect location, along with other amazing works 🤩 Exhibition "BYOD²" – Digshibuya / Miyashita Park / Tokyo
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Subdivision ˌsʌbdɪˈvɪʒən noun The process, instance, or state of being divided again following upon an earlier division . . #Subdivision #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #genart #generativeart #plotter #vector #plotterart
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
One last contribution for this #genuary2025 day 31, Pixel sorting With an open question: Art for art's sake? What do you think? #genuary #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #codeart #generativeart #genuary31 #genuary2025 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social )
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
One line that may or may not intersect itself. "The Waste Land", by T. S. Eliot #genuary day 25 (prompt credit: Bruce Holmer , Chris Barber , @heeey.art , @monokai.com ) #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary25 #genuary2025 #poetry
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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 24/01/2025
Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape. S/N: 2025.024 #genuary2025 #genuary24 #genuary #dailySketch #creativeCoding #generativeArt #generative #genArtClub #openFrameworks
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Darien Brito @darienbrito.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#genuary Day 20:Generative Architecture. Auto-box builder. #genuary2025 #genuary20 #genartclub
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923. Generative Architecture. #genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social ) #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Building with Words: texts from the work "Towards A New Architecture" by Le Corbusier, 1923. Generative Architecture. #genuary day 20 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht) #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary20 #genuary2025 #architecture
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Triangles and nothing else. Pure black and white. No gray. #genuary days 13 and 14 (prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social ) #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Triangles and nothing else. Pure black and white. No gray. #genuary days 13 and 14 (prompts credit: @heeey.art , @mwiederrecht.bsky.social ) #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary13 #genuary14 #genuary2025
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Subdivision - #genuary day 12 (prompt credit: @mwiederrecht.bsky.social ) Each individual rectangle of the 37636 in this image is the result of dividing a larger rectangle into two parts. #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart #genuary12 #genuary2025
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
#genuary day 8: Draw one million of something (prompt credit: @piterpasma.nl ) Quoting William S. Burroughs, "Language is a virus from outer space", a million times. #genuary08 #genuary2025 #genuary8 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#genuary day 4: Black on black (prompt credit: @strangerintheq.bsky.social ) Plotted with black ink (over white ink) on black paper. #genuary04 #genuary2025 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart #plotterart
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Bornach @bornach.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! It's the first day of #genuary2025 "Vertical or horizontal lines only" #genuary #genuary1 #processing
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#genuary day 1: Horizontal or vertical lines #genuary01 #genuary2025 #genartclub #generative #algorithmicart
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Piter Pasma @piterpasma.nl · 15/12/2024
#GENUARY2025 PROMPTS ARE READY!! GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things. It’s happening during the month of January 2025, and everybody is invited! #generative #genartclub
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Codification, Coercion, Resonance, Persistence. WIP
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Happy of my bitframes #1899 by @mattdesl.bsky.social , and proud to support the www.generativefilm.io project ! 🙌 bitframes.io/gallery/toke...
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Working on inks blending...
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Perception, Cognition, Dominance, Resilience. WIP
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Topology, Hegemony, Meaning, Control, WIP
A work of algorithmic art. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMs. One of the classic algorithms used in coding the artwork is "space colonization". The artwork will be plotted on paper.
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wip... An excerpt of LLM training data, transformed with neuron-inspired algorithms into art #plotterart #codeart #algorithmicart #genart #genartclub #generativeart #plotter
A work of algorithmic art plotted on paper. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMs. One of the classic algorithms used in coding the artwork is "space colonization".
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
WIP... #plotterart #codeart #algorithmicart #genart #genartclub #generativeart #plotter
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thought colonization ? #plotter #codeart #algorithmicart #genart #genartclub #generativeart
A work of algorithmic art plotted on paper. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMs. One of the used classic algorithms is "space colonization".
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Chris McCully @chrismccully.com · 20/11/2024
Need a company in Spain to hire me please, I'll do it for the bare minimum salary that still gets me a visa and I'll even touch Angular for you 💞
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
...where a fragment of LLM training data is shredded in an algorithmic work of art and becomes tangible on paper. #plotter #codeart #algorithmicart #genart #genartclub #generativeart
A work of algorithmic art plotted on paper. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMsA detail of a work of algorithmic art plotted on paper. The generative algorithm uses as its working material a fragment of a dataset commonly used for training LLMs
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Piter Pasma @piterpasma.nl · 15/11/2024
Hyperreality antiperistaltic circuit #generative #genartclub
An abstract three dimensional form rendered using scribbling lines, there are several layers of colour in grey and red, the shape looks exactly like your imagination of a severed throat making espresso-machine sounds
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
A little thread about my latest work, done for the @PaloAltoBcn collection. This piece marks a point in my ongoing exploration of the transformation/interaction/contamination between algorithmic and physical art. Here is the final result, an acrylic on paper / mixed media 🧵⬇️
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Paolo Curtoni @paolocurtoni.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
...and so we are at the end! The MAGBa exhibition ends, today the computers stop, after months of generating Art 24/7 without a break. Thank you and see you soon @PaloAltoBcn, @tgamxyz and all the amazing fellow artists, it was a beautiful thing 💙.
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