aebrer makes generative art exploring entropy, emergence and pareidolia, working almost entirely within the constraints of the PICO-8 fantasy console.,The name belongs to Andrew E. Brereton, who has developed his own technique called entropy locking to generate emergent variety from code.Work is minted on Tezos, chosen as a low-energy, proof-of-stake blockchain.
Three Body Problem was Brereton's first generative art series, a set of more than 24 pieces published on Hic et Nunc simulating gravitating bodies in orbit. Later pieces in the series, including luna theory | EMULATOR, added an ambient soundtrack by the musician bisdvrk.Entropy locking grew out of size coding, the practice of writing minimal code such as tweetcarts that fit in 280 characters.The technique probabilistically reseeds a piece's random number generator, creating emergent variety that is bounded but not fully predictable.
pico_punks applies the same PICO-8 constraints to generative avatars, drawing inspiration from DOS Punks and CryptoPunks while remaining fully generative and interactive. One pico_punk became Brereton's own profile picture across platforms.fx(hash)'s FxParams feature, which lets collectors customise a work's parameters at mint, was used for a pico_punks open edition.A separate open edition, BEHOLDER, was released on fx(hash).
