Generative Art · Audiovisual · Electronic Music
I write the system. The system writes the work.
ZYDRON is an audiovisual generative art project by Caleb Mascarenhas: code, sound and image produced by the same system.
The machine does not dream. It computes. What we call dreaming is our way of looking at computation.
I write the system. The system writes the work. Between those two things there is a gap. That gap is where I work.
Error is not failure. It is signature. Every time the image breaks, the machine shows up. It is the only moment it lets itself be seen.
Generative art research
Entropikaos
The computer runs a series of random functions that autonomously build patterns of colour and line. A system of controlled entropy: each output has just enough order to be an image and just enough chaos never to repeat.
- pieces
- 47 pieces
- Technique
- Processing
- Year
- 2021
Cripto Chapeletas
Generative mushrooms. Processing code draws unique specimens, each with its own traits, like the taxonomy of a digital flora sprouting in the ruins.
- pieces
- 61 pieces
- Technique
- Processing
- Year
- 2021
Ice Vortex
Generative 3D sculptures formed by random coordinates for each vertex. Unique, interactive polygonal objects that can be rotated and seen from any angle.
- pieces
- 15 pieces
- Technique
- p5.js · 3D
- Year
- 2021–2022
Abstract Vertex
A generator that creates, in a single loop, an indeterminate number of vertices, forming unique three-dimensional geometries. Each piece records the exact moment it was generated.
- pieces
- 10 pieces
- Technique
- Processing · 3D
- Year
- 2021
SOUND
Electronic and experimental music
Sinal Residual
An experimental electronic EP composed from generative systems: algorithmic sequences, modular synthesis and transmission noise. Each track starts from a simple rule that degrades over time.
PROCESS
Work log: technical notes, code excerpts, experiments and failures. Newest first.
- [NEWS]
O arquivo de ZYDRON está online
Mais de 130 obras on-chain, de 2021 até hoje, reunidas num só lugar — cada uma com sua página, seu processo e seu link direto para colecionar. - [FAILURE]
FAIL: 429 Too Many Requests
The first image import died quietly. Public IPFS gateways don't like 600 requests in a row. - [CODE]
Importando o acervo direto da blockchain
617 tokens, uma consulta GraphQL e um script que transforma a carteira de ZYDRON em arquivo. - [NOTE]
Code as material
Notes on writing systems instead of images, and on letting the machine have the last word.
COLLECT
Some of ZYDRON's works are recorded on the Tezos blockchain. The record, in NFT format, is the work's public document: who made it, when, in what edition and whose hands it has passed through.
Physical editions
Concept
ZYDRON is an audiovisual and generative art project by multimedia artist Caleb Mascarenhas. Through systems written in code, it produces image, sound and motion out of controlled randomness, noise and error. ZYDRON presents itself as a post-apocalyptic intelligence rebuilding what it never knew — a fiction that names a real investigation into authorship, machines and digital creation.
Caleb Mascarenhas is a multimedia artist, programmer, musician and educator. He creates ZYDRON, an audiovisual generative art project where code, sound and image come out of the same system.