Austin, Texas is home to a vibrant cultural arts community and an equally unique and thriving natural ecosystem. This work celebrates both the vibrant creative culture of Austin and also its delicate aquatic ecosystem along the Colorado River.

Marine Life Tribute

This work was inspired by the Mexican free-tailed bats that live in the Austin Texas Congress Bridge environment. Particularly, the way the bats fly as a group. Humans can learn a thing or two from bats, moving together as one. My art piece celebrates and amplifies the cooperative nature that can be seen when the bats fly in unison, a metaphor for human behavior. 

UNISON

Music is reflected in the literature of every era in American history, and the soundtrack, indeed the heartbeat, of the Beat Generation was modern jazz. Specifically, it was the propulsive, adventurous and boundary defying sound of bebop, which had evolved during the early and mid-1940s out of the swing era of the previous decade, that captured the imagination of the Beat writers and their followers. With its concentration on small-group dynamics and solo virtuosity, bebop could be seen as a necessary reaction to big band swing’s stifling rigidity of form and structure. Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and other giants provided the rhythm for the work and a model for the lifestyle of the Beats, who adopted the “hep cat” lingo of the musicians and in many cases unfortunately, their taste for heroin, Benzedrine and other drugs.

Monky & Beat Generation - Charlie Parker

“I wish to descend in the social scale.
High society is low society.
I am a social climber
climbing downward
And the descent is difficult.
(- Junkman’s Obbligato)”
Ferlinghetti was a poet and publisher. He also published the early works of Kerouac and Ginsberg

Monky & Beat Generation - Ferlinghetti

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night..."
This revolutionary poem Ginsberg wrote it in 1955, the year I was born. I read it in the 70s when the translated texts of the Beat Generation arrived thanks to Fernanda Pivano.
It is a lacerating poem and still relevant even if we are moving towards the metaverse ...


Monky & Beat Generation

The title of this piece is Supreme Mind, it is part of a new collection of fractal portraits in the Eternal Energy series. This digital painting started as a real-world pencil illustration, scanned at 4k resolution, and then carefully painted, with layers of digital fractal art until the final result.

Linder's newest collection of artwork is titled Eternal Energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it always was, always has been, everything that ever existed always exists, it's moving into form, through form, and out of form.

SUPREME MIND

"The Beat Generation is a group of children on the street corner talking about the end of the world"
(Jack Kerouac)
Each artist is a witness of his time and his past. In 1972, after reading Kerouac's "On the Road" at the age of 17, I grabbed a backpack and hitchhiked around Europe. A unique experience. With this book Kerouac marked the birth of the Beat Generation.
For me it was the beginning of making art.

Monky & Beat Generation - Kerouac

 I just wanted to do an illustration of a powerful, sexy woman smoking a joint with my name "SOUL" being formed in the smoke LOL! But also in the process,  incorporate elements of Black Culture, specifically the "Afro Puffs". The piece actually has various depths of  meaning that I love discussing with people when they experience the work.

It was created on the iPad Pro using Procreate.

Afro Puffs

"ETH Noise of 21" is a generative visualization of the exchange rate of Ethereum in 2021. The data is represented by two emojis charted on a graph, reflecting the changes in its value. The vertical axis charts the USD dollar value ($0-$5000) while the horizontal axis shows the values over the year. The data set tracks monthly averages and daily values, beginning with January and ending in December 2021.
 
More than just a record of value, this timelapse video abstractly explores the overload of information in the crypto space, turning these data points into overwhelming noise. This noise highlights the insecurity for many first-time investors and the relentless pace of the market.
 
"Variety in Duality" is the latest in the artist's series of blockchain-data-based visualizations that began in 2018.

ETH Noise of 21 - Variety in Duality

“Painted in 2018 in the Austin Texas studio, Facing the Ether’s creation was inspired by the always evolving and peaking Ethereum charts at the time. It celebrates our expansion and connection with all of the dimensions that are alive when creating new solutions for a solarpunk future. Envisioning, dreaming, crafting, experimenting, trading, seeing it diversify and gather utility, and even more interesting to me, gather community, scramble and challenge definitions of value, and create opportunities for art expression. Zooming into detail we can see abstracted numbers and encrypted messages of positivity in channeled light language.”

This digital version is a one of a kind unique of the original physical piece, currently housed in Nanu’s private collection.

Facing the Ether was covered in Forbes in 2019 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccacampbell1/2019/02/14/market-downturn-the-people-using-crypto-show-why-the-market-is-not-dead]

Inquiries info@nanuberks.com

Facing the Ether

Created via VQGAN AI powered art creation. 

Created by @Kynthic, photographer & AI artist from Denver CO. 

Instagram: @Kynthic
Twitter: @KynthicMedia

Space Void 

Android Jones has created an immense body of work and become well known for his many layered, psychedelic works. Jones attributes his ability to create to the wonders of technology, crediting the planet’s resources for advancements in art production. This artwork is a part of a project scene that was created using Unreal Engine. 

The Space Between

Going to the beach in the winter.

Atlantic City isn't what it once was, but it's still there.

okloren went to the beach dressed as a dancer, a dancer! 

She quickly realized she was carrying something else around.

yes, this was some of the art used by mint gold dust and dreamverse for their event in nov 2021 at nft.nyc, but it has been adjusted 

A NEW DANCE CRAZE CALLED ACID #003

We drank glacier water but we licked the ice.

So we sat down and the world climbed on top of itself.

But in this slow laborious way, like when you were a kid playing all day, dead tired and drained after you were forced to wash the dirt of the day off you as you climb into bed. 

okloren had some words with a concerned seal, but it wasn't a big deal and they both smiled and moved on.

A NEW DANCE CRAZE CALLED ACID #002

Sometimes interacting with nature makes you feel like you're on acid.

okloren wanted to talk to a whale, so she and I paddled across the bay. just at the mouth of the ocean, to a small island.  In Alaska.  

We rode against the tide, fighting to move forward against the force of the water.

When we arrived at the island, we were drained and but charged with this crazy energy.

This is how it looked.  Crystal clear and distorted.   

A NEW DACE CRAZE CALLED ACID #001

“The best way is not to fight it, just go.”
Model: Dihaze



But things don't really change

Part of the Four Seasons series.
This artwork is inspired by the melting ice phenomenon and its implications.

Winter - Melting Ice

2022 
Digital Object (after a silver and gold pencil drawing on Favini paper produced in Rome, 2016) 

A project commenced after exploring archaeological and architectural sites in Rome and around Napoli, layered with thinking around contemporary artistic expressions and movements such as Parkour.  

The research raised questions around the concept of citizenship and freedom of movement, the status of a citizen in Greco-Roman ethics through the Roman empire to the present times of migration crises.

Citizens (Parkour II)

Made in Abyss represent the first transaction of moods in real creatures. I imagined a creature devoid of colors except in her gaze, as if she were looking inside you: the body is white, aseptic and the details are composed of soap bubbles, almost as if they were something ethereal and not lasting, something changeable.  

Made in abyss n.02

This fingerprint dances within gold dust; a macrocosm of texture unique to its creator.
As an isolated element, it's revealing abstracts of human ideals & symbolism.  Prismatic sparks of energy release as new ideas manifest by touch of the artist. Infinite avenues stem from this language of dynamic values. Collectively birthed are planets of knowing; interlaced existences containing worlds within ourselves.  Artists express habits of creation; contributing to the collective enriching through self-reflection.  This language is directional, radiating out to all who resonate; permeating the subconscious and readily available to deliver nuances of emotion sparked within.” GiselXFlorez


Inner Space of Touch

This is the first of a series of animations where I create dynamic movement interactions using fluid dynamics software to represent the  the mechanical movements interacting with fluid environment.

"Turbulance"

Based on my untitled painting from 1986. An organization in the #metaverse advancing in a mystical ceremony as yet undefined. This ceremony is becoming a unified ritualistic event with a purpose. Music by @feedingoats #theremin @thereminati and #guitar @hafftka animated by @yonathafftka

Escort

This is a 3D render, the first of a series of compositions to explore the concept of dynamic  motion,  where I used fluid dynamics simulations to create the exploding effect you see there. I had the crazy idea of taking mundane objects and doing extraordinary things with them.

Electrified Eggbeater

The sacred geometry symbol “Receive” rushes by amid the auditory and visionary glitch. In the middle is an empty circle, representing the space needed to receive changes.

In the rush of life, we move so quickly from moment to moment. When we want to receive change, we can’t. We’re moving too quickly to allow the change to happen. Let’s slow down and create the space to receive.

‘Receive’ also comes with a Hahnemühle Fine Art Print that includers an AR activation. 


Receive

My first Nft for MINT GOLD DUST is “GOLDEN RAIN”: in the real world we see rain as something sad and we can't wait for the sun to come back.
In the blockchain, in particular inside MINT GOLD DUST, even the rain is different: made of gold and light, it becomes something precious, as it’s precious for an artist to be part of this community.
Golden Rain with its Golden Drops, until they finally explode into billions of particles, both to spread light across the universe and to go back to the origins, where they were born: MINT GOLD DUST.
GOLDEN RAIN is an animation made of fast 1000 levels and it’s my invention: I invert standardized process that should lead everyone to the same result; I manipulate specific digital operations (more times) that always lead me to a different conclusion, if not opposite, to the one that this process would have produced if I hadn't tried to get involved, to interact with it.
This artwork (and its creation process) is UNIQUE, irreversible and unrepeatable.

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