Created by CNMAT affiliate artist Claudia Hart with UC Berkeley graduate composer and programmer, Andrew Blanton. Culling from art historical references, they devised a protocol thoroughly described in their statement, using the DALL-E AI system among other things. 444 generative works will be minted on ArtBlocks (https://www.artblocks.io/).
Systems Madness is part of a series of experiments supported by E.A.T_Worksthat extend NFTs “Beyond the Wallet.”
Systems Madness is a collaborative project by Claudia Hart and Andrew Blanton that explores what happens when reason meets unreason. Inspired by the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the project uses AI tools to transform literary language into a library of visual tropes, a translation of emotional expression into code. Together Hart and Blanton reconstruct the pattern language of romantic era wallpapers using warm, off-primary colors, noises, gradients, blurrings, layerings, and apply different fractal formations, repeated irregularly pushing beyond the human desire to create order out of chaos. Systems Madness is a mesmerizing interactive artwork that extends ‘beyond the wallet’ into our domestic spaces.
