Bruce @ Studio Yorktown

Hello! I'm Kwame Bruce Busia, but many know me better as just Bruce or Studio Yorktown. My artistic journey has taken me from architecture, to photography, graphic design, and even creating tools for fellow digital artists. Today, I'm deeply immersed in the world of generative…

'Tekton' Sketches- My method for iteration is simply to code, then draw on top of the outputs, and then go back, code in a cycle. This way I get to see what's missing and decide if I am able to solve the problem, or if it's an idea that maybe needs to be saved for a later work.

Some more development sketches from 'Perpendicular Inhabitation' - These capture the exact moments that certain solutions or 'eureka' moments arrived. Many are a result of play, where answers come when you don't look for them. Thus, it is more a process of channeling than force.

Some (very) early 'Tesseract' concept sketches. Any final algorithm represents maybe the best 20% of all the ideas I've explored, but most of my enjoyment is in working through the 80% that each might be able to live on as part of some future work in various configurations.

I wanted to share some early 'Sabler' development sketches, as well as some ideas that did not quite make it into the final algorithm. The brown color scheme was inspired by this Anni Albers tapestry, which was in fact the inspiration for the entire collection.

GM ☀️ Alleles by @StudioYorktown

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Happy to see more and more collectors posting their Tesseracts lately 🙏🏾 Here is a great collection by @KRP_DM, thank you

Tesseract by @StudioYorktown. Minted on @fx_hash_

A visitor to an art fair stares at a digital screen, which appears to be displaying a static image. Unknown to them, the screen is cycling between multiple slides of the same image, minted on different chains. Does the quality, effort or 'soul' of the work change between slides?

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The fun thing about Polaroid pictures, is not that they are ready the second they are taken, but the gradual 'fading-in' of the photo that brings a sense of magic and anticipation. Similarly, many of us remember the joy of the physical process of going to a video store to rent…

Minted this piece on @editart_xyz by @JosVromans — I like the right side of the output, which at a glance looks like handwritten Japanese katakana written in vertical columns. It is a very versatile algorithm capable of a huge range of outputs. I recommend trying it out 🙏🏾 ⚫️⚪️

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Today I was thinking about artists and marketing when some thoughts came to me about signaling. Signaling (the communication of intent) is actually an art form in itself where very often, the thing being displayed (the end result) is NOT the actual signal at all. To use sports…

I sometimes play, modify and experiment with particularly unique or interesting out-of-bounds outputs as a means of evolving ideas into potential generative algorithms. Sometimes they just became editions if I thought they were exciting as they were.

Generative art comes in many forms

Perusing my feed lately feels like a Blade Runner hunting replicants... More and more comments are bots, followed by bot summarizations of said bots by more various simulated bot personas... There is something stilted and unnatural about how they write; "It's not X — it's Y..."

Generally when we say 'generative art' here on X, we are really referring to a hyper-specific, blockchain / NFT-linked subcategory which actually represents only a tiny fraction of the entirety of the discipline. The majority of its greatest works are quietly created in…