horizon(te)s #63 (print)

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Iskra Velitchkova

2022

Print (Digital)

Description

Generative art, like other art movements, is full of artists who form a complex web of inspiration, common historical touchpoints, and shared ideas. Direct collaboration is a little rarer, but it can yield fascinating results.

In 2022 the generative art marketplace fxhash invited Zach Lieberman and Iskra Velitchkova to collaborate on a project. Both artists have well-established but distinct approaches to making art with code, but a shared appreciation for delicate abstraction and a careful attention to color. They titled the project horizon(te)s, in a nod to the horizons and horizontal compositions that frequently appear in both artists’ work.

They took a unique approach to collaboration, each working to write code that would produce outputs in three modes, “me as me,” “me as you,” and “me as you as me.” The 400 works feature works by each artist creating as they normally would, works where each imitates the other’s style, and works where they attempt to imagine how the other artist would imitate their own style. Indeed, the outputs collected here—one of which is also represented as a print—blend elements typical of the styles of both Lieberman and Velitchkova.