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This collaboration is intended to provide a new way to mint NFTs that celebrates emergence, unpredictability, and happenstance over forced rarity. We want to encourage collectors to explore the edges of the algorithm, play a role in the output, and take agency to become a co-creator. We want collectors to view their engagement as an adventure and make a creative contribution to the art. Adding a curation step by the collector also allows the generative algorithm to take more risks and explore a more interesting potential output space. We trust collectors to seek out and identify the truly special outputs that emerge. With this approach, the collector is now the curator. Tyler Hobbs (he/him) is a visual artist who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. In June 2021, Tyler released

About | QQL Project Creators Details Community FAQ Project This collaboration is intended to provide a new way to mint NFTs that celebrates emergence, unpredictability, and happenstance over forced rarity. We want to encourage collectors to explore the edges of the algorithm, play a role in the output, and take agency to become a co-creator. We want collectors to view their engagement as an adventure and make a creative contribution to the art. Adding a curation step by the collector also allows the generative algorithm to take more risks and explore a more interesting potential output space.

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