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Five on-chain collections spanning generative SVG, WebGL, and AI across Ethereum and Base." }, "identity": { "creator": "Nic Hamilton", "role": "Artist and creative director", "location": "Melbourne, Australia", "focus": [ "digital art", "NFT collections", "on-chain art", "generative SVG", "WebGL", "AI art", "token-native artwork" ], "chains": [ "Ethereum", "Base" ], "social": [ "https://x.com/_nic_hamilton_" ] }, "collections": [ { "slug": "nuxui", "name": "NUXUI", "chain": "Ethereum", "type": "Archive", "canonicalRoute": "https://nuxui.art/collections/nuxui", "projectRoute": "", "contractAddress": "0x517e643F53EB3622Fd2c3A12C6BFde5E7Bc8D5ca", "openseaUrl": "https://opensea.io/collection/nuxui", "summary": "A 333-work series of generative and hand-finished digital artworks built from 3D fragments, materials, light, and states of growth and decay.", "context": "The works are arranged through simple scattering and clustering systems and then finished by hand. 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It treats the source material as live browser work rather than static image-only output." }, { "slug": "nux-alloy", "name": "NUX ALLOY", "chain": "Ethereum", "type": "NUX2UI", "canonicalRoute": "https://nuxui.art/collections/nux-alloy", "projectRoute": "", "contractAddress": "0x382bede7d0d018c2f66471b75e190d36569510f2", "openseaUrl": "https://opensea.io/collection/nux-alloy", "summary": "A 408-work Ethereum series that reduces NUXUI into basic shapes and topographic forms built as animated SVG works.", "context": "Instead of expanding the original system, Alloy strips it back into simplified geometry, proximity scaling, and shape culling. The result is a harder, flatter branch of the same source material." }, { "slug": "rez-tabs", "name": "REZ TABS", "chain": "Base", "type": "Project", "canonicalRoute": "https://nuxui.art/collections/rez-tabs", "projectRoute": "https://nuxui.art/projects/rez-tabs", "contractAddress": "0x605258084DeBDc3504c84ca109F0B8c307ec1f98", "openseaUrl": "https://opensea.io/collection/rez-tabs", "summary": "A collection of 120 AI-generated 10,000-pixel images reinterpreting everyday objects as eroded landscapes and device-like entities.", "context": "Trained on images from mass industrial processes — metal casting, ceramics, packaging, plastics, electronics — crossbred with NUXUI and XOOKT, then guided by input 3D images of tablet and ring-like forms. The resulting compositions could be held in your hand or observed as digital maps." }, { "slug": "xookt", "name": "XOOKT", "chain": "Base", "type": "Project", "canonicalRoute": "https://nuxui.art/collections/xookt", "projectRoute": "https://nuxui.art/projects/xookt", "contractAddress": "0x41F1eA6fD04623C07655192c990E94C6461d40C8", "openseaUrl": "https://opensea.io/collection/xookt", "summary": "A 63-work browser-native series navigating a contradiction between maximalist process and reductive presentation — vivid, grotesque color and form cooked down into degraded pixel clusters.", "context": "Deliberate image degradation is followed by reconstruction through scanlines that activate feedback shaders, obscuring and revealing the underlying browser-native artwork. 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