Murat Atimtay is a new media artist and creative technologist who builds algorithmic systems, interactive installations, and plotter-based works exploring memory, computation, and unstable infrastructures. He began as a tattoo artist in 2001, later developing a style he calls Heliantone that fuses tattooing with algorithm-generated imagery and won the Best Small Tattoo award at the 2019 Frankfurt Tattoo Convention.
His interest in programming deepened during the pandemic, leading him into NFTs. He released work on Ethereum and Tezos before his generative series Blueprints brought him to Bitcoin. Conceived as a homage to the generative art pioneers Vera Molnár and Herbert W. Franke, Blueprints builds unstable architectural diagrams from just three elements: rectangles, lines, and symmetry. Blueprints was released through Gamma, a Bitcoin Ordinals platform, on January 3, the anniversary of Bitcoin's Genesis Block, and sold out in under five minutes. Atimtay has said the permanence of inscribing generative art onto Bitcoin appealed to him. He has described the protocol's constraints as sharpening his process: “You're forced to distill your work to its essence... There's no room for excess, and I love that constraint.” His second Bitcoin Ordinals project, Pulseforms, is inscribed with a lifespan of 1,024 to 4,096 blocks and evolves on-chain, generating an evolving soundscape he calls a chant.
