Introduction
Tyler Hobbs’s Fidenza was released through Art Blocks on 11 June 2021 in an edition of 999. His account describes flow fields, curved rectangles, collision checks and probabilistic colour, allowing study of how an algorithm organises form and variation.
View full image ↗Fidenza work preview from its Art Blocks collection page (source token identifier 78000883), from the 2021 series.
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Source · Fidenza ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
How one program produces different compositions
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03
A flow field is not the finished image
Hobbs describes a flow field underlying curved rectangles. Composition also depends on scale, shape, spacing and colour choices; saying that randomness is involved does not explain how those decisions organise the image.
Section sources: Fidenza
Constraints can vary too
The account distinguishes collision modes that prevent overlap, relax it, or remove checking altogether, alongside probabilistic palettes. Non-overlap is therefore not an absolute property of every Fidenza image. The platform’s 999-work edition defines a research corpus, not a claim that this archive has examined every output.
Section sources: Fidenza · Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs
A comparison with early plotting
Editorial interpretation: comparison with Nake concerns how formal references become executable constraints with room for variation. It does not demonstrate direct descent from a particular Nake work, and market transactions do not substitute for analysis of the images.
Section sources: Fidenza · Hommage à Paul Klee Nr. 2
Sources for this account
Read release date 2021-06-11 and edition of 999.
Read Core Algorithm, Collision Checking and Color Palettes; source program not executed and all 999 works not surveyed.
Read Material / Technique and Description; distinguish the 1965 drawing from the collection screen print.
Artist’s process account and platform date checked; no algorithm reconstruction, exhaustive series survey or dependency-version audit. The account and translation are AI-assisted, pending independent human review. Section references identify evidence without claiming independent verification of every historical statement.
Continue with a comparative question
Move from platform structure to a series with a detailed process account.
Date the work’s release separately from the later artist argument.
Further comparison: Subscapes: constructing landscape impressions from seeds
Further comparison: Meridian: a hash as a coordinate in generative space
Further comparison: Apparitions: a transaction-specific generative series
Further comparison: Incomplete Control: leaving room for error and imperfection
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021-06-11 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021-06-11
Both the platform release and artist’s process article are dated 2021-06-11.
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Original sources & further reading
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Fidenza
https://www.artblocks.io/collection/fidenza-by-tyler-hobbs
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #135 · Generative-art history: research, works and execution
Research materials & supplement references · 1
Generative art to crypto art: source register (3 October 2026) · Read release date 2021-06-11 and edition of 999. · 005
Date as recorded: 2021-06-11
Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs ↗
Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Fidenza: flow fields and variation across a series. Art-history node #135. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/252
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