Q&A

What is Occurrence Generative Art (OCC GEN ART)?

Occurrence Generative Art (OCC GEN ART) is the art where the artwork's visual elements and the composition represent the data generated by the event's occurrence. Space-time coordinates are a framework through which occurrence generated data are grasped, while the data enable depicting of the event’s occurrence. Created art piece, an NFT painting, is the event - the art piece represents the event. The artwork is, therefore, essentially, aesthetically and integrally related to the occurrence, while the occurrence is indicated by the artwork. OCC GEN ART is created according to the creative principle, i.e. the artistic method of complete individualization of large series, a branch of the artistic method of exception.

What is the abstract representational art?

The abstract representational art is the Occurrence Generative Art. This art is representative, while the visual elements and the composition of the NFT painting represent the data generated by the event’s occurrence. This feature precisely is what differs OCC GEN ART from the traditional representational art, where the painting is created as an interpretation of visual data and the figurative representation of what is seen. Since the data are represented here, and they have an abstract character, OCC GEN ART is always both abstract and representational, regardless of whether the artistic expression is figurative or not.

What is the conceptual crypto artwork?

The conceptual crypto artwork is made in digital surroundings, through the technology native for that space, but so that the creation of the artwork is directed through the artistic concept. The artistic concept defines artwork's meaning, as well as the specific way of its fashioning.

What is the artistic concept and the focus-concept?

The artistic concept defines the meaning and the inner content of the artwork. Starting from these, the way of artwork's creation is constituted – the particular idea about the procedure, as well as the way of using the technology and media. The ideal artistic concept is of abstract character and represents the artistic method (creative principle). In order to create particular artworks, the concept has to be focused and directed towards a more specific topic; this is to constitute focus-concepts, from which NFT art pieces are generated. Since the topic is specific, the focus-concept can have its (complete) visual interpretation, which further becomes the shared basis for various representational contents of all NFT paintings generated out of that concept.

What is the concept-NFT?

The concept-NFT is the artistic concept which is introduced to the crypto space through minting, as an NFT. It consists of the concept's anatomy, i.e. a textual elaboration of crypto artwork's meaning and the way in which the NFT painting series is generated out of the concept. In the case of focus-concept, the concept-NFT is minted with a complete visual interpretation of the concept added to the anatomy.

What is the artistic method (the creative principle)?

The artistic method (the creative principle) is a procedure envisaged in the mind of the artist, which brings the inner meaning of the artwork to the adequate fashioning, visibility and appearance. The usage of the media and technology in artwork's creation is defined and directed through the artistic method (the creative principle), so that every single step of the artwork's creation is given the meaning appropriate and compliant to the nascent artwork.

What is the method of exception?

The method of exception is the artistic method (the creative principle) specially designed for the purpose of univocal and complete identification of an individualized, unique and unrepeatable event's occurrence. The method of exception articulates the principle for identification of event’s occurrence. Through the application of the method of exception it is possible to grasp the full meaning of the unique occurrence artistically.

What is the method of the complete individualization of large series?

The method of the complete individualization of large series is the branch of the method of exception. The method of complete individualization of large series defines how to create unique art pieces depicting data generated by different event’s occurrences so that every single created art piece (NFT painting) is original and entirely different from every other in the series.

The method of the complete individualization of large series identifies the occurrence of an event in the outer physical space-time and in objective sense of the word. Through the method's application, such an occurrence is granted its unique and completely individualized visual expression. In crypto surroundings, the method of the complete individualization of large series enables generating of a large number of NFT art pieces (in series), so that every generated NFT is completely individualized, while, at the same time, there is an aesthetic, meaningful and essential kinship among them.

What is individualization?

The individualization is the procedure through which a particular NFT painting is given exact and defined attributes, i.e. the procedure through which an NFT painting is constituted as aesthetically unique and unrepeatable.

What is the artwork and the art piece?

In OCC GEN ART the artwork encompasses q-painting, assembler program and all generated NFT paintings jointly. More specifically, the artwork is the q-painting directly created by the artist; the q-painting is the generative essence of the entire scope of all generated NFT paintings. As all NFT paintings are generated out of the q-painting, they all have artwork quality according to their origin, and thus they are the artwork as well – that is, they are the art pieces of the one and the unique artwork.

What is the reproduction (the derivate)?

An individualized generated NFT painting can be introduced to the real space through printing or in some other way; thus, it leaves the crypto space and becomes a physical object. Nevertheless, the data cannot cross into the physical space, but only the NFT painting's representational content. Therefore, this is the reproduction of the NFT painting: the reproduction is created on the basis of NFT painting's part only, and so it is not its copy, but its derivate.

What is the q-work and the q-painting (the originative variable painting)?

The q-work is the originative variable artwork, the embodiment of the crypto artwork's artistic concept in the digital surroundings, such that it contains all possible individualized NFT art pieces which can be generated out of it. The q-painting is the q-work whose representational content is a painting, created according to the painting procedure in the real space. The q-work, i.e. the q-painting, is in the state of superposition and the indefiniteness until it is activated by a particular set of data from the database, when the assembler program generates an individualized NFT painting, i.e. an NFT art piece, with exactly defined attributes. The q-work is in the superposition because it is in all possible states that can be generated out of it at the same time, and it is indefinite because the state of the q-work is none of those states in particular, but in all of them jointly.

What is an NFT painting?

An NFT painting is the NFT crypto artwork, generated out of the q-painting and the assembler program; the NFT painting is the art piece. Also, an NFT painting is a crypto artwork whose representational content is created as a painting, by applying the painting procedure from the real space into the digital surroundings. An NFT painting has the width (the representational content) and the depth (the data), which are uniquely interconnected by the same creative principle.

What is the representational content?

NFT's representational content is a visual, audio or video content which represents the data in an NFT.

What is the variable data?

The variable data is the data of the q-painting. Since the q-painting is in the state of superposition and indefiniteness, its data are neither concrete, not abstract, but variable – the datum of the q-painting is every possible data of the kind it contains, at the same time.

What is the assembler program?

The assembler program is a code which generates individualized NFT art pieces. The assembler program is specially designed and created for the OCC GEN ART, that is, for the making of the MM/FMM artwork. The assembler program was written by the programmer, according to the generative algorithm (instructions for the use of the q-painting), i.e. the original technological solution devised by the artist. The assembler program connects the q-painting and the database, so that the activation of a particular set of data from the database activates the q-painting also, and so that the indefiniteness of the q-painting is directed to the discreteness of an individualized NFT painting.

What are NFT co-series?

NFT co-series are a series of NFT paintings created according to the same focus-concept, but having different visual interpretations of the concept. They are affiliated and harmonized as much as the individualized NFT paintings generated according to one of these visual interpretations are. Finally, they all jointly belong to the one and the same crypto artwork.