It’s been four years since the last
@larvalabs project. When pioneers return, it reminds us how far we’ve come and how much further we can go.
Matt and John built the foundations on which we stand. CryptoPunks. Autoglyphs. Meebits. The blueprint for everything that followed.
A “quine” is code that contains the instructions to replicate itself. It’s a reflection (and a refraction I suppose) of how we create, how we pass things forward, what we leave behind, and how we understand ourselves through what we make.
Larva Labs has spent months on this collection in a more rigorous studio approach for the first time. Systematically exploring color. Compressing five kinematic engines into self replicating programs. Balancing code with typographic beauty. Every day a new exploration, a refinement, a challenge.
Watching them work, I witnessed two artists unfolding and rediscovering themselves through their craft. Synthesizing everything they’ve learned across years of constraint-based work and discovering what persists, what matters, what gets carried into something new.
Quine is quintessential Larva Labs.
I’ve had the honor to not only bear witness, but to contribute to the historic release of this collection with
@artblocks, the final Curated. It’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly. And I hope you love these strange loops as much as I do.
Quine | October 9
Quine by
@larvalabs
The final Art Blocks Curated release · Oct 9
Code Generates Art <> Art Generates Code