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Algobots: character design enters a procedural series

Algobots

Stina Jones

Introduction

Jones’s character series uses scalable vectors and individual serial numbers. The release page mentions a NIFTY licence; this entry records that statement without expanding its legal meaning.

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Preview of Algobots from its Art Blocks collection page. The series release is dated 2021-04-06; the image was retrieved on 3 October 2026. A still does not reproduce dynamic or interactive execution.View full image ↗

Preview of Algobots from its Art Blocks collection page. The series release is dated 2021-04-06; the image was retrieved on 3 October 2026. A still does not reproduce dynamic or interactive execution.

Stina Jones / Art Blocks · Artwork and image rights remain with their holders; research reference does not assert an open licence.

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RESEARCH ACCOUNT

Character design enters a procedural series

ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03

Work and historical context

Art Blocks dates Algobots to 2021-04-06, with an edition field of 500 works and attribution to Stina Jones. This dates the release, not the beginning of every sketch or development process.

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Character design enters a procedural series

Jones’s character series uses scalable vectors and individual serial numbers. The release page mentions a NIFTY licence; this entry records that statement without expanding its legal meaning.

Section sources: Algobots by Stina Jones

Viewing the work and its documentation

Compare Algobots as recognisable characters and as combinations of parts. Which features sustain a robot identity, and which create individual differences? The work extends generative practice beyond nonfigurative geometry.

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Art-historical significance and comparison

Editorial interpretation: Character generation belongs within computational art even when playful and collectible; the specific algorithm remains a topic for further code research.

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Character generation belongs within computational art even when playful and collectible; the specific algorithm remains a topic for further code research.

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Algobots

https://www.artblocks.io/collection/algobots-by-stina-jones

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Provenance, translation & verification

Archive node #131 · Generative-art expansion: artists, works and execution

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