Digital art continues to be one of the best and most popular use cases for NFTs. The technology has enabled artists to sell their digital works online to a global collector base for the first time ever.
Generative art in particular has experienced a massive boom over the past couple of years. While the genre has been around for decades, it didn’t reach any level of mainstream interest until the advent of NFTs.
Art Blocks has long been the leading platform for the best artists to launch their generative projects. As highly curated as it is, and having been built on Ethereum, it’s also left a gap in the market for other platforms with alternative approaches. The best example of this is fxhash.
Just before we jump into what makes fxhash so interesting though, here’s a quick primer on generative art.
What is generative art?
The art you can buy on fxhash and Art Blocks is what’s called generative. Generative art is a huge and fascinating topic in and of itself and I won’t attempt to define and explain all its nuances here. If you’re interested in that, check out this article.
In the context of fxhash, you can simply think of generative art as digital art that’s created by an algorithm. Rather than creating a piece of art by hand or with an illustration software, the artist writes a piece of code that can then automatically generate a digital artwork.