CoinTokens

A ‘CoinTokens’ contract (template I coded and implemented for $LFG) allows back and forth exchange between an ERC-20 and ERC-1155 NFTs that represent integer denominations of that ERC-20. 

Scratch

Scratch is a Zen-inspired generative art project that explores the captivating patterns that sanding discs create on metal surfaces. The digital artworks can be pen-plotted at any scale, and an alternate physical output can be created on sheets of metal using CNC machines.

genPepes

Feels Good.

Additional Info:
On every refresh, a Pepe design is randomly chosen and drawn with random shapes.

LIGHTS

LIGHTS is a burn-to-mint collection. To me, the folded hands emoji is an image of gratitude & appreciation – and I’m creating this project for my collectors. I hope that owners will use the Folded Hands NFTs as ‘tokens of appreciation’ and will occasionally send them to others. Folded Hands is the burnable token needed to mint all future pieces in the LIGHTS collection.

Mathare Memories

Mathare Memories is an interactive, multimedia collection of 68 photographs taken in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya in 2007. High resolution images and audio files are permanently stored on Arweave, are backed up on Github, and are retrieved for display by on-chain JavaScript running in your browser.

Chainlife

Chainlife tokens: microcosms of digital life, that are interactive, evolving, and aware.

Chainlife world: ever-changing macrocosm controlled by you, that is collaborative, (also on-chain), and extendible.

Chainlife forest: growing a healthy forest ecosystem (not on chain) to fight climate change and keep Chainlife carbon negative.

Chainlife project: Genesis project of Matto’s Blockchain interactive NFT platform, Substratum.

Texture and Hues

A minimal, live-rendered, on-chain/in-chain, monochromatic token collection.

deFOCUSed

deFOCUSed is a 100% on-chain project closely associated with Matto’s Art Blocks ‘FOCUS’ project.

BLONKS

BLONKS is a collection of 4,444 completely on-chain vector-graphic illustrations with personality and with unique design mechanics. BLONKS token images are deterministic and change when transferred between wallets, they’re licensed CC0, and they live on Ethereum.

Motion Studies

Animated scenes, editions of 25, on Tezos Ethereum (this Tezos work can now be bridged).

PHO-DENZA

DISCONTNIUED

A NFT photography experiment on the Tezos blockchain with 100% of all sales and royalties donated to charities supporting Asian-Americans.

FOCUS

FOCUS is an exploration of, and meditation on, the act of directed attention, the fixture of concentration, the state permitting clarity, and the mathematical point of convergence.

Yin Mandala Series

This series is inspired by the duality of Yin and Yang: the opposing but complementary forces, aspects, and energies present in the world.

The Yin Mandala series has been completed. The Yang Mandala series is a work in progress.

Crystallized Illusions

Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, Crystallized Illusions is a collection of 99 pieces created through a generative process.

Three variations of this process were made to correspond to the categories of illusions as described by Zhiyi (538–597 CE), the fourth patriarch of the T’ien-t’ai (or Tí Taî) Buddhist tradition.

Ensō Water Paintings

100 Ensō Water Paintings were created to reward lucky buyers of my Art Blocks project Ensō.

Dice was rolled and recorded, paintings were made with water, video recorded each painting’s creation and evaporation.

Ensō

In Zen, ensō is a circular symbol that represents elegance and enlightenment. It is typically painted by hand in an uninhibited way, allowing for unexpected and beautiful results.

String Vibrations

Our perception of an object’s form can be manipulated based on its speed and motion. Line becomes solid and ridge becomes texture; time and motion come alive.

Fractured

Digital paintings of posed models.

PXXL

Digital paintings of original, implied-erotic photographs.

Compositions in Energy

Original photographs capturing energy in nature.

Ariel Motion Studies

Digital composite of original photographs I took of the model known as ‘Ariel’ while in motion.

Golden Deer Skull (1st NFT!)

Photograph of a white-tailed deer skull I collected from my family lands and painted in 2010. Hung by a piece of red leather.

ANTIVENOM

It’s all come down to this: a call to the brave to do what’s right and kill who’s wrong. More than anyone imagined is on the line, and that line is a trail of destruction leading straight toward Væir. A small team of heroes has a huge task, but it’s not as simple as they believe…

MAELSTROM

There is no peace for the wicked, and tonight there’s none for anyone in Washington, DC. Minutes ago, horror was unleashed, and no one is prepared—they’re devastated. When push comes to gnaw, people must choose: try not to die, or sacrifice themselves to save another…

QUEEN’S GAMBIT

Exhausted after their weekend, a small-town family of vampires heads to DC. They’re greeted by a plot that threatens to blow their world apart and cast it into chaos. The fates of the nation, the Vampire Order, and their family are up in the air…

BLOOD 4 LIFE

Stay living in secret—in peace—or help the humans with their “zombie problem” and risk having the life you’ve built torn to pieces? One vampire family faces such a dilemma, and whether they like it or not, they’re about to have the biggest adventure of their lives…

SOPHIA’S JOURNAL

This documents one survivor’s journey and marks the beginning of the Infinite Vampire adventure. It features over two dozen custom, pen and ink drawings and 96 pages of handwritten story.

2:14 in 214

2 minutes and 14 seconds in room 214. The room had a speaker system installed and a dimmer switch to the overhead lights. Somehow the speakers were picking up electrical interference from the dimmer as I adjusted the lights. The video and sound is 100% raw (not manipulated in post).

Stardust Nudes

In this series I combine majestic satellite images of star clusters, nebulae, and supernova remnants with my own photographic work in nudes and portraits.

Freestyle Haiku

1250 poems and counting.

Est. 2010. Free forever. By Matto.

Welcome to Mathare

This documentary film and photojournalism project reveals the reality of living in what the UN called “The most brutal slum in Africa.”

AUX 2

AUX 2 [codename: spacejunk] is the second in a series of AUX works. These works are sometimes meditative and other times chaotic—all resulting from video feedback experimentation and other video manipulative processes.

AUX

AUX 1 [codename: kiwi]. The electronic image is doubled, crossed, combined, and looped upon itself, exposing the circuitry matrix and becoming its own surface texture, color, and motion. By pulsing to its own overlapping signals, it becomes a mediated self-destruction and/or a new art medium.

Awen

Awen is an ancient word meaning something like breath of inspiration or flow of energy. In this piece, two paintings and a sculpture of the cubist aesthetic come to life, shimmering, pulsing, vibrating, and transforming the image into a condensed expression of nature of the subject; scattering perspective, time, and form.

[tides]

[tides] is a video meditation on human movement, water, and our bodies. If surf were people, how would it move? The image was modified using a time-based
effect I programmed.

Limits

This film is an assemblage of short animations, each portraying a boundary or transitional zone within our bodies: breath, blood, flesh, and thought or desire. At these zones, inanimate becomes animate and chemical becomes life.

Perdurance

This film explores the motion of our minds, through observations of the persistence and endurance of daily living. It was inspired from metaphysical notions of perdurance through time. The image was modified using a time-based effect I programmed.

Dissolution

Dissolution attempts to dissolve the notions of personal boundaries through elemental transformations. It portrays life and human action as fluid, elegant, and ever-changing, through slit-scan, stroboscopic, and rotoscoped animation techniques.

Shadows

This collaborative piece is a playful experimental cine-dance film with a unique score. A custom light-box was created for shooting the choreographers, creating a different sort of stage, onto which they could perform. Originally performed with live dance in front of projected video, a cinematic version was also made.

Reflecting Pool

Sometimes the smallest event can have the most profound repercussions. Reflecting Pool creates a contemplative but highly charged visual and musical expedition through a cycle of chaos and recovery. Made with direct on film animation, macroscopic and microscopic digital video recording, as well as live action footage.

Tathata

A Mahayana Buddhist word for such-ness or that-ness, meant to express the quality and fullness of the universe in every instant, this film follows the path of a young man lost in his own mind on a journey towards acceptance and growth.

Reverberations

Using a video rotoscoping technique, the abstract imagery seen within this piece was all drawn from human movement. Inspired from martial artists and dancers, their motions are further animated and ultimately abstracted.

BLUE

Set to the classical piece “Hungarian Rhapsody No.2,” BLUE is a playful experimentation of dancing light and visual music. All imagery was shot as live action, then reanimated and composited.