0xFAR is the alias of Francisco Alarcón (also known as FAR), an artist and engineer whose generative, AI and blockchain-based work draws on a background in civil engineering and architecture. He trained as a civil engineer and then as an architect at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where winning the school's best-thesis prize gave him the confidence to pursue art instead.,
Before turning to art, he designed Major League Baseball stadiums for the Atlanta Braves and worked as a computer set designer on the Super Bowl.He later earned a Master in Design from Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2018 and began a PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard, where he worked with Stephen Prina.,He has also curated in the Web3 space with Expanded.art, and curated Ana María Caballero's poem CORD, auctioned at Sotheby's in 2024.,
His 2021 collection Infinites, released on Ethereum, pairs a StyleGAN trained on paintings by historical masters with an on-chain process, written in three.js, that augments each image using data from the Ethereum transaction that mints it.The Umwelt AI is a set of 512 hybrid forms fusing deep-sea creatures with computer hardware, generated with tools including Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain via the Ordinals protocol.He is the artist behind Taproot Wizards, a collection of 2,108 pieces inscribed on Bitcoin via Ordinals, and its spin-off Quantum Cats, 3,333 pieces built around reviving Bitcoin's OP_CAT scripting function.,,Through WarGames, released under his venture FINE — one of 30 companies selected from 9,000 applicants for a16z funding — token holders interact with an algorithm to co-create new generative outputs over the course of a year.,
His 2020 installation Ocean Amplification, made with the anthropologist Stefan Helmreich, uses a GAN trained on archival photographs to generate increasingly detailed images of rising ocean waves, structuring the work as a feedback loop in which the AI's own energy consumption feeds back into the height of the waves it generates.It was shown at Ars Electronica in 2020 and had a solo presentation at the Harvard Art Museum in 2022. His work has also been included in “Proof of Work” at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, “Picking Up The Pieces” at Dia Beacon and MASS MoCA, and Ordinals-focused sales at Sotheby's and Christie's.His 2025 solo show “OFFSHORE” at Art Dubai, presented by the gallery Nguyen Wahed, included a wallpaper installation combining three single-channel videos.,
