Ty Vek is a pseudonymous generative artist who writes long-form and open-form code art for fxhash, working mostly in vanilla JavaScript rendered as SVG. Their work returns repeatedly to psychological models of the self, moving from Freud's id, ego and superego to Jung's archetypes and the collective unconscious.,
In June 2023 they released Self, Id, Self, Superego and Self, Ego, a trilogy of 234-edition collections on fxhash issued on three consecutive days and loosely structured around Freud's model of the psyche. Self, Id and Self, Superego were released as traditional long-form projects, randomly assigned at mint, while Self, Ego let each collector set parameters to compose their own output, designed to complement or clash with the Self, Id and Self, Superego pieces they already held.The release drew more than 15,000 Tezos in secondary trading within days, and prompted speculation that an established artist was working under the pseudonym.
Outer Conflict (2024) paired two collections on the theme of masking and hidden selves: Under This Mask, Another, a colorful open edition released through Highlight and Foundation, and What We Hide Bleeds Out, a monochrome series of 50 pieces minted in person in Venice that April. The title of the open edition comes from a line by the artist Claude Cahun, “Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces.”
Inner Forms (2025) turned to Carl Jung's ideas of archetypes and the collective unconscious, using fxhash's newly introduced open-form format,in which each minted piece can spawn descendants that build on or depart from it, forming branching lineages up to 100 generations deep.The Flood & The Whale (2026), described as a relative of Inner Forms,focuses on two recurring dream and myth motifs drawn from Carl Jung's Liber Novus visions of a flood before the First World War and Joseph Campbell's belly-of-the-whale image of ego death and descent into the unconscious.
