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Photography: Fede Canovari - Creative-coding: Elout de Kok

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A custom created 'soft' pixel 2D/3D engine in vanilla JavaScript
Some info in the source-code; variations on 11 selected photographs.

How can it be, that a photographer from the the Buenos Aires suburbs is working together with like an oldskool creative-coder/artist from the Amsterdam underground?

It's happening in the NFT space - the blockchain. Like a public decentralized hard disk and marketplace all in 1. Hyped, loved and hated; but from the underground and up; all around the world, Artist suddenly are given a platform to directly publish and sell their Art, work together, connect. And are discovering so many other great Artist, fans and collectors.

It still can be hard, to get noticed; and even sell some of your work.
But then sometimes other Artist and collectors step up, getting moved by the talent and try to high lite these Artist, that also need some love and attention.

Fede Canovari

Hi, my name 's Fede Canovari, born in 93, raised in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I started with photography as a hobby, taking photo with my phone, learning on the internet until with a lot of effort I was able to buy my first camera.

What I like the most is to take pictures of the things that happen in my neighborhood, I try to reflect the usual, what happens to my neighbors, to my friends and even to me.

It is interesting all the references you find in these images, many things that remind you of the city: a neighbor on the sidewalk, a corner or a group of children riding a bike, what I seek is not to forget what Varela is and where you come from.

Each photograph tells a story, which in turn, reflects a reality that is often overlooked.

Although at first my neighbors did not understand why I took pictures in the streets, I think I was the first one to do it, now they all feel identified with my photos and like to find themselves in them.

Elout de Kok

For the love of Art, and jumping in rain puddles 0__.

I was like 12-13, in the early 80ths and living in the Netherlands, when I first saw the work of graffiti writers on the subways in New York, published in an obscure underground comic magazine. It felt like an alien language, that I still could understand and feel.
And I really loved the sprite-work from videogames; like published by Capcom. Like almost every fast-food place or pub in my town had like a pinball machine and Arcade cabinet, back in the days.

I just thought back then; wow. If I could do that one day...
Then I started to create and work on my own Art, nobody could or would program for me, so I learned to code myself. Do it yourself.

Years later, a great artist-painter I like; told me, when he was 7 years old. He was watching the murals I created back in the 80'ths. That inspired him to pickup Art as well.

I kinda stopped with graffiti in the late 80's. Somehow it all became too crazy-hectic; I felt like a war-veteran with pstd at the age of 19. Gladly, I could move my energy to Art and Coding.
And it's weird, and like with the Internet; I connected and became friends with some of those early oldskool 1970-80's graffiti kings from New York, that I admired as a kid on the other side of the world.

I started to VJ with my computer generated visuals from 1993, it was a way to make some money with generative coding and computer graphics. From crazy underground parties, to flying around the world and vj'n and meeting some heroes of mine like Fatboy Slim, LTJ Bukem, Kraftwerk.

I just hope I can inspire young and old people with my Art and creative coding,
and I just hope they get creative as well. Go! Level-up! ^__^

July 30, 2022