Tyler Hobbs

Minted by artist

Acquired from above

Tyler Hobbs, an artist from Austin, burst onto the international art scene in the summer of 2021 when the Artblocks generative art NFT platform released his 999-piece drop Fidenza. This landmark series of works and his record breaking sales helped propel generative art to the attention of many who had not followed its earlier incarnations.

Following in the technical footsteps of artists like Verostko and Molnar, Hobbs’ creates visual frameworks algorithmically and plays with variations within them. Incomplete Control is a series of 100 unique iterations produced from a single algorithm. The works were created as NFTs via the ArtBlocks platform, and were minted during a live, four-day event at the Bright Moments Gallery in New York City.

Incomplete Control deals heavily with “imperfection”. Hobbs has always been interested in the presence of imperfection in the analog world, and the relative absence of it in the digital world. The forces of chaos and entropy give the natural world a certain warmth. There are patterns and lessons there that we can beneficially introduce into the digital world. One prerequisite is that the creator must, at least partially, give up control. Incomplete Control is a test of Hobbs' ability to do this - to allow the output to define an entire space of potential existence rather than limited specifics.