Tezumie is an Americangenerative artist, illustrator, and pixel artist,who publishes under a pseudonym, chosen partly to protect his privacy while sharing his art.He served in the military and later discovered creative coding through Daniel Shiffman's tutorials.His practice has since moved from abstract compositions toward semi-realistic nature scenes coded from scratch.
A friend who wanted to get into NFTs introduced Tezumie to fxhash and Tezos, where he released a pfp project built on the pure-spider code template — its name, a blend of Tezos and pfp, became his own. He went on to release eight further projects on fxhash before being voted in as an artist on 256Art, where he released Entangled.In 2022 he collaborated with the architect PersonChen on (un)existing, released on fxhash, combining PersonChen's hand-drawn architecture with Tezumie's generative code.
Tezumie's style moved from abstract, geometric work toward skeuomorphic and semi-realistic natural scenes, a shift he traces to seeing nature rendered in code by Tenebris and, through him, Zancan. The low-poly look of later pieces such as Frontier draws on Grant Riven Yun's Neo-precisionism.In Assembly, released through Art Blocks on July 26, 2023 as a fixed edition of 87 unique artworks, he set aside his usual practice of starting from a defined concept and let the piece develop through an exploratory, flow-based process instead.
On Bootloader, a Tezos platform built by the team behind objkt for embedding executable SVG code on-chain, Tezumie released WarpField, which warps circles with smooth noise functions into fluid, amoebic contours.He also built AIJS, a browser-based, AI-enhanced code editor that integrates ChatGPT into a p5.js-style interface, adding features such as user profile pages, saved sketches, and an explore page as he developed it.,,
