Where Value Is NULL

Sakura sketches

So 2024 didn't start much better than 2023. We now have an additional war in the Middle-East between Israel and Hamas, and it seems Iran wants a piece of it. And btw the war in the Ukraine is still ongoing. The environmental movements are gaining momentum, but the European pull to the right seems to have another agenda. Later this year we will have the glorious Biden vs Trump struggle.

-- Looks like we are going to be ruled by the tank and the drone.

And over to 2023, the Russia - Ukraine war is still in full effect, inflation is soaring high, engergy crises all around and NFT is on the downfall.

-- Is it the time of the new demi-god ChatGPT?

It is 2022, Corona seems on the retreat, the NFT debate is ongoing, climate, energy, earth's population and locust capitalism are the core challenges. Our young are totally lost in the wokeness of the 21st century.

-- Time to worship our new gods; the internet and computers. Enjoy some generated art.

Epilogue

I see myself in a long tradition of computer art, algorithmic art, generative art, ai art, (not so much) crypto art and the most recent nft art.

My brush is the computer, my canvas is the computer screen, my medium is the pixel or the vector my language is the language of the bit and the math. My ambition is still for the computer to create art.

My audience is the nameless mass of my global village. And I have to be honest, I have no message and in that sense I'm hammering my paintings up onto any arbitrary tree in the vast forest of the internet with no idea if my non-message is heard.

Thank you to: Vera Molnar, Roman Verostko, Manfred Mohr, Mark Wilson, Sol LeWitt, Daniel Shiffman, Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Harm van Dorpel, Daniel Roozendaal.

.. you get a plane that flies but doesn't flap its wings! --Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, California Institue of Technology

Jeroen Vesseur, Schiedam, The Netherlands, 2022