AutoEclectus is the code-based generative art project of Allan Leisk, who lives and works in rural northern New South Wales, Australia. Drawing on the palm trunks, tree bark and cellular growth patterns of that landscape, he writes algorithms that translate organic shapes into precise geometric compositions, in search of “a connection between the digital and the organic world”.,
Leisk's earliest fxhash releases, Folded and Folded Circle, both from December 2021, were hard-edge geometric compositions of stripes and folds drawn from 1960s hard-edge painting.In June 2022 he began working with organic, trunk-like shapes in Organica, a small collection released on objkt.com during Tezos Art Week.That exploration led to Yashinoki, an fxhash collection of 256 editions released in September 2022 that took its forms from cross-sections of palm tree trunks he had cut down in his garden and from Japanese woodblock prints.,The same month he released Kaibō, also 256 editions on fxhash, which dissected Yashinoki's organic forms into composable geometric shapes before letting them dissolve back into organic growth.,
In 2023 Leisk was selected for the sixth cohort of the Vertical Crypto Art Residency, a twelve-week remote program.For the residency's closing auction he produced Perforations, an fxhash edition of 100 released in July 2023 that imagines shield, ellipse and egg-shaped artefacts pierced with holes and buried for millennia, their surface patterns generated with Voronoi tessellation.,Two earlier works, Folded and Kaibō, were printed at 3 by 3 metres and permanently installed on building walls in Ballina, Australia, as part of a 2023 street art initiative run by Ballina Shire Council and the Northern Rivers Community Gallery.His 2024 open editions Voronoi Variegata and Dendrigrafts continued this focus on natural structure.Voronoi Variegata, whose cell patterns echo honeycombs, bones and tree canopies, won third place in the generative art category of the Optimism-sponsored We Love The Art competition.,Dendrigrafts grafts a growing network of branch-like nodes onto a host shape, an image Leisk likens to the temples of Angkor Wat being swallowed by the jungle.