Tyler Hobbs’ Order/Disorder And The Rise Of Generative Art

The Details:

When: Friday, March 7, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Doors at 5:50 PM)

Where: Ivester Contemporary, 916 Springdale Road #BLDG 2 #107, Austin, TX 78702

Tickets: Free (RSVP here)

Back by popular demand, Austin is getting a second chance to meet Tyler Hobbs, the generative artist and software engineer whose work bridges the gap between code and canvas.

On Friday, Ivester Contemporary will host an evening dedicated to art, algorithms, and creativity, featuring a conversation and book signing for “Order/Disorder,” Hobbs’ highly anticipated debut book.

Order, Chaos, And The Code Between Them

In “Order/Disorder,” Hobbs explores his “systematic approaches to art-making, the creative relationship between man and machine, computer-led aesthetics, and the interplay of repetition and emergence.” For Hobbs, code is more than a tool—it’s a medium in its own right: “[code is] a standard tool for artists. It’s just way too powerful to ignore.”

The Evolution Of Generative Art

In an interview with Christie’s, Hobbs explained in 2021, “employing the most complicated algorithm he had ever created,” he created his now famous work “Fidenza”—which he describes as “a series of 999 computer-generated images minted as individual NFTs that examine the point where the worlds of digital and analogue — and chaos and order — collide.”

Hobbs noted that: “Many of the algorithmic and visual elements in Fidenza can be traced back through my work over the past five years. However, it was also a radically new experiment—designing an algorithm suitable for 999 outputs was a massive increase from my previous largest, which only had 32.”

Hobbs’ work raises fundamental questions about the relationship between the imprecision of human-made objects and work produced by exacting algorithms. He explained to Christie’s that he draws inspiration from systematic painters like Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, and Wassily Kandinsky, seeing their work as a precursor to modern generative processes.

Here’s how the evening will play out:

• 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM: A conversation between Kevin Ivester & Tyler Hobbs
• 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Book signing & mingling