Tyler Hobbs' debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Order / Disorder contextualises Hobbs' ground-breaking art from 20182023, and includes works from his 2023 solo exhibitions at Unit London and Pace Gallery, New York.
Tyler Hobbs is a pioneer of generative art and his debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist.
A limited edition of 999 books that mirrors the number of algorithmically generated works in Hobbs Fidenza collection, one of the most sought-after fine-art NFT collections of all time
Includes contributions from Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, and Melanie Lenz, curator of digital art at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Tyler Hobbs' debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Contextualising his art from 20182023, Order / Disorder includes works from Hobbs' solo exhibitions at Unit London and Pace New York in 2023.
Structured around the concept of dualities, the book explores Hobbs' systematic approaches to art-making, the creative relationship between man and machine, computer-led aesthetics, and the interplay of repetition and emergence across long-form generative projects. Order / Disorder features an interview between Hobbs and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, and an essay by Melanie Lenz, curator of digital art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, alongside texts by the artist that introduce each thematically arranged section of plates.
Order / Disorder is released in a limited edition of 999 that mirrors the number of algorithmically generated works in Hobbs' renowned Fidenza collection.
Foreword: Joe Kennedy
Tyler Hobbs in conversation
with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Generative Sensibilities: Melanie Lenz
Long-Form Generative Art
Investigating Computer Aesthetics
Relationships Between Hand and Machine
Systematic Approaches to Art-Making
Biography
Glossary
NFC Chip Details
Credits
Tyler Hobbs (b. 1987) is a visual artist from Austin, Texas. His work focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Hobbs project Fidenza, a series of 999 algorithmically generated works, is one of the most sought-after fine-art NFT collections of all time. His solo exhibitions include Mechanical Hand (2023), at Unit London, UK; Progress (2018) at Galerķa Dos Topos in León, Mexico, and Incomplete Control (2021) at Bright Moments Gallery in Manhattan, New York.
Melanie Lenz is the curator of digital art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she cocurated the exhibition Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018), convened the symposium Art, Design and New Technologies for HEALTH (2015) and curated the exhibition Transformations: Digital Prints from the V&A (2012). Lenz has published papers on early Argentine computer art (2018); women, art and technology (2014); and collecting and conserving borndigital art (2011). She is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and has broadcast widely on creative arts and advanced technologies.
Jason Bailey is the CEO and cofounder of ClubNFT and is well known for his popular art and tech blog Artnome.com. Having predicted the NFT art explosion back in 2017, he was an early collector and proponent of the CryptoArt movement. Most recently, he founded the GreenNFTs initiative to help explore and promote ecofriendly NFT practices. Jason has written on art and tech for Art in America, Right Click Save, and the Harvard Data Science Review and has lectured at Christie's, Sotheby's, and top universities and institutions around the world.
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is an art curator, critic and historian who is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has curated over 300 exhibitions since his first, World Soup: The Kitchen Show in 1991. He received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence (2011) and the International Folkwang Prize (2015) for his commitment to the arts. Obrists publications include Mondialité, Ways of Curating, and Lives of The Artists, Lives of The Architects.
