Abstract Originals

Curated by Georg Bak, this NFT drop includes works of Davis' early generative art from the “Abstract Originals” series.

Georg Bak stated: ‘Geoff Davis is one of the pioneers of generative and algorithmic art. The artist founded the Micro Arts Group in 1984 and was among the first artists to use popular home micro-computers to generate abstract moving graphics. Micro Arts produced several curated sets of art for public distribution, including a story text generator which can be regarded as an early predecessor of ChatGPT.

Among his earliest works was MA1 “Abstract Originals”, computer code generated artworks which were distributed on data cassettes and later available on national Prestel TV teletext.

These pioneering artworks (also early forms of pixel art) have been turned into rotating cubes in a 3D CGI animation with synthesizer music and will be released in a series of NFTS.’