Modern Forms of Generative Art

Generative art refers to art that is created in whole or in part using an autonomous system. This form of digital art dates back at least to the ise of computing machines in the 1950s. Recently, however, generative art has experienced a burst in digital creativity thanks to the emergence of blockchain technology and, in particular, of Non-Fungible Tokens. In this paper, the author explores the new forms of generative art that blockchain technology has brought to the field. Moreover, he embeds these new forms of blockchain-based generative art within Philip Galanter’s generative art theory.