Fernando Jerez is a Spanish generative artist and computer science teacher whose long-form, code-based collections explore humans' evolving relationship with machines and technology.,In the three-chapter Defrag Trilogy, an early narrative work, Jerez concludes that technology “emerges victorious every time” in its relationship with humans.,
Jerez launched the collection Stations on Art Blocks on February 3, 2022, a 900-piece procedurally generated collection depicting nine rival factions building competing economies in a virtual network of space stations.The same year, Amazeing Fields launched on the generative platform GetSplice.io, turning a collector's own NFT into the seed for a unique maze-like image.
UMK, released on Art Blocks Presents on May 1, 2023, is a long-form collection of 762 unique pieces generated entirely from JavaScript code, without any additional images or textures.The collection's maximalist illustrations of self-evolving machines draw on the artists Jean Giraud (Moebius), Katsuhiro Otomo and H.R. Giger.UBK: Ultrabionika extends the UMK collection by pairing generative outputs with AI-generated imagery, and is described as Jerez's first AI project. Each UMK output feeds nine AI-generated variants, made with ComfyUI, from which Jerez hand-picks one image for the final collection.
In September 2024, Jerez released Roots on Art Blocks Studio, an edition of 256 pieces described as “a very personal approach to classic abstraction through generative art”.Renaissance was released through Hodler's Collective, a curated platform for crypto art spanning generative, AI-driven and hand-drawn work.In February 2024, Summer Party appeared as an open edition on objkt.com, part of the 52weeksartistsdrop project curated by NFTCanarias. The piece explores the contrast between rigid and organic forms through pointillism.An essay by Jerez on combining generative coding with AI, “Matching Gen Art X A.I.”, was highlighted as a recommended read in Kaloh's newsletter in 2023.
