RVig and Generative Art.

Generative art is a form of digital art where artworks are created by systems such as computer algorithms, mathematical rules, or random processes. In this approach, the artist designs the system or algorithm which then produces the artwork.
RVig was born in 1976 in Lyon, France and currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland.
He has been a digital artist since 1999. He studied computer science and engineering at INSA Lyon (National Institute of Applied Science) and McGill University (Montréal, Canada). However he had long had a passion for art and images and he succeeded at weaving this into his mastery of coding.
Generative art refers to art made through the use of creative coding. It’s a long and detailed process, balancing and combining algorithms, raw source data, visual harmonisation skills, fine tuning, planning and vision.
Practitioners have access to a wide range of knowledge and techniques, and RVig likes to explore untried combinations of techniques and new ways of applying current knowledge. This practice leads to interesting discoveries and new visual experiences.
He has built over time his own collection of custom scripts, tools and code, which is constantly evolving with the emergence of new ideas and technologies.
His work has appeared at a diverse range of exhibitions in galleries and events since 2011, including FTWeekend Festival in London, InkGallery in Geneva, Lausanne Art Fair, Paris Metaverse Summit and Predict Conference in Dublin.
In 2021 he entered the world of NFTs, with the release of the project “Flowers” on Artblocks.io, the main NFT platform dedicated to generative art. In 2024, the artist is the winner of the “ABS Digital Art prize“.


Creations

Here’s a selection of my digital art, prints, and NFTs.
Limited print editions: contact me for customized sizes and materials, numbered and signed: contact@rvig.art.

Finnish Coloring

Project submitted to Combine24 competition by Kansallisgalleria – Finnish National Gallery. Available on HighLight

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Alchimie

Enchanting display of colours and structures. Available on Art Blocks Studio

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Les FLeurs du Mal

Baudelaire's Legacy Redefined: Classic poetry encounters the transformative realm of digital art.

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Magnolia Stars

Magnolia Stars is a generative art project focusing on the diversity and geometry of magnolia flowers. (p5js, Licence CC-BY-NC 4.0)

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One Humanity

This work was completed in the iconic Room XX at UN Offices in Geneva, during the One Humanity Conferences

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Dualité

Collection of generative artworks, created and curated by RVig with a smart combination of algorithms and colours, all delicately built around an amazing combined double spiral.

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Volute

Long form generative art by RVig, on Art Blocks, Released 19 déc. 2022, 19:00 UTC+1

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Virevent

Discover hundreds of different pinwheels with fantastic shapes and colours. (fxhash)

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Flowers Print Edition

Series of 61 original and curated flowers, generated with a modified script of my successfull Artblocks project Each print is a unique edition of a unique FLower, manually signed

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Nebula

A Nebula is a distinct body of interstellar clouds. Originally, the term was used to describe any diffused astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Nebula is now also an amazing, complex, twisted and and nebulous shape you can contemplate while rotating, or grab and spin to explore its best profiles.

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Flowers

Beautiful bouquets of generative flowers, with fascinating diversity in numbers, shapes and colour combinations. Each one has its own personality, its own character, and is always stunning and surprising, as you can expect with flowers in their natural form.

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45635 Packed Blocks

45635 Blocks randomly and carefully packed with some smart algorithms.

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38954 Packed Rectangles

38954 Rectangles randomly and carefully packed with some smart algorithms. RVig, Generative art, 10.2021 9000x9000 PNG

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23333 Packed Squares

23333 Squares randomly and carefully packed with some smart algorithms.

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Flower Field 2011-2

Generative Art. Pastel coloured pixel streams, artwork generated with my own custom audio-reactive application. RVig, 2011, 4096x3072 JPG

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Flower Field 2011-1

Generative Art. Pastel coloured pixel streams, artwork generated with my own custom audio-reactive application. RVig, 2011, 4096x3072 JPG

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Lines PL01

Generative art. Subtle combination of musically distorted lines.

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Magicum Caelum

Generative Art. Magic sky of colors generated from trance music.

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Firebird

Generative Art

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Expression

AluDibond direct print, 60x45cm

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Color Dance

Color Dance, Print on demand.

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The Blockchain

This artwork is a visual representation of the bitcoin blockchain.
All transactions of block 499774 of the BTC blockchain are represented as a pixel pattern in a 16x16 matrix and superposed one on each other, and mixed with my digital artistic algorithms. All colors come from the blockchain data.
Block 499774 was validated on december 17th 201712:35 UTC, when bitcoin reached its highest value in 2017.

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Nouveau Monde

3D metal printed sculpture. 75mm, Polished Nickel Steel.

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Roses de Feu

Print on demand

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Color chess board

AluDibond direct print, 80x80cm

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Spiral Algorithmic Pattern SP01

AluDibond direct print, 40x40cm

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Flower

AluDibond direct print, 100x100cm

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Rust I

Print on demand

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Blue Bricks

Generative Art

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Color Spirit

AluDibond direct print, 80x60cm

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Events

Explore the exhibitions, conferences, and events where my work has been featured.

ABS Digital Art Prize

May 2024

Winner of the 2024 edition.

Read the Official Announcement

NFC Lisbon 2024

May 2024

ABS Digital Art Prize Announcement,
Main Stage, Lisbon

Visit NFC Lisbon Site

The Good Token Society, Conference sur l'Art Digital

2 May 2024

Digital Art conferences at the Geneva Contemporary Art Center

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Megève, 3rd Digital Art Expo

21 February 2024

Conférence. Generative art collections overview by the artist Richard Vigniel (RVig)

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The 2nd Global Dialogue

20 October 2023

“Towards the World of #OneHumanity – The Role of Artificial Intelligence”
United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)

Senary Studio @ Salon des Voitures Vintages

12-15 October 2023

Gare des Eaux-vives, Geneva

Geneva Digital Art Showcase - Senary Studio

12-28 September 2023

Senary Studio & Showroom, Carouge, GE

ONCHAINED - SWISS NFT SHOW

7-28 September 2023

curated by Georg Bak, unpaired. NFT Gallery | Zug, ZG

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#OpenScreens, NFT Factory, Paris

December 2022

7th Computer Art Congress

1-2 September 2024

Computer & Media Art at the Age of Metaverse and NFT
HEAD – Genève, Switzerland

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Paris Metaverse Summit

16-17 July 2022

Share, Learn and Build a Positive Future of Metaverse
Paris

Lausanne Art Fair 2021

October 2021

Foire internationale d'art contemportain
Expo Beaulieu Lausanne, Stand Galerie Gijsel

FT Weekend Festival

4 September 2021

Letters to the world, video exhibited at THE GALLERY TENT during FT Weekend Festival in London (UK EDITION)

Artistisc Afterwork - Monada.ch

27 august 2020

Mo Bar, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Quai Turrettini 1, 1201 Genève

The ARTBOX.PROJECT Miami 2.0

December 2019

Fashion & Art show - Monada.ch

9 november 2019

Tiffany Hotel, Rue de l'arquebuse 20, 1204 Geneva

Predict Conference - Dublin

1 October 2019

5th Annual Predict Conference The future of technology through AI and data Europe's Leading Data Conference

InkGallery Tattooland

July-August 2019

Av. Pictet-de-Rochemont 24, 1207 Genève

Lausanne Art Fair 2019

2-5 May 2019

Foire internationale d'art contemportain
Expo Beaulieu Lausanne, Stand InkGallery

Fashion & Art show - Monada.ch

28 March 2019

Brasserie Da Matteo, Rue du Stand 50, Geneva

InkGallery

February 2019

InkGallery, Laboratoire artistique
Rue de la Corraterie 24, Genève

Marathon Musical, Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve

28 April 2018

Art Génératif Réactif - accompagnement du concert de harpes.

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Galerie Rosa Da Rua

June 2017

Vielle ville de Clermond-Ferrand (France)

Read the Article Published in ‘La Montagne’

The ArtBox.Projects, Basel 1.0

June 2017

Giant screen in Basel Airport during Art Basel 2017

Petite Galerie 2011

July 2011

In 2013, a second exhibition at La Petite Galerie presented my work to the public in the form of a collection of digital creations printed on aluminum dibond.
Le Poel-Laval, Drôme provençale.

Petite Galerie 2011

July 2011

In 2011, a first exhibition at La Petite Galerie presented my work to the public in the form of a collection of digital creations printed on aluminum dibond.
Le Poel-Laval, Drôme provençale.

25fps Eupen

May 2003

Eupen, Belgique 25fps – art du film et vidéo” at the former Eupen slaughterhouse, where the focus was primarily on experimental video art.

5e Académie d’été de la couleur

July 2004

Presentation and discussions about my digital art application. In 1986, Jacqueline Carron founded the association ‘Couleur&Vie’. She organized meetings and exhibitions, inviting qualified speakers on various topics during the ‘Summer Academy of Color’ in Poet Laval in the Drôme region for nine years.

Learn About the Association’s Origins

Press

Press and interviews featuring my work and story.

nftnow.com

August 2024

"Next Up: RVig Fuses Florals & Poetry in Award-Winning Generative Art"

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The Art Newspaper

June 2024

"As winner of renamed ABS Digital Art Prize is announced, have we reached a turning point for conversations around NFTs and culture?"

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NFT Morning

June 2024

"#724 | L'artiste la semaine: Rvig, gagnant du prix Arab Bank 2024"

Listen interview (French)

nftnow.com

May 2024

"Arab Bank Switzerland Announces Digital Art Prize Winner at NFC Lisbon"

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Capital.fr

May 2024

"A Lisbonne, le NFT s’impose comme une culture à part entière"

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Crypto News

June 2024

"‘Let’s Push Boundaries’: NFC Summit Takes in Awards, AI and ‘Post-Human Modernism’"

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finews.ch

June 2024

"Arab Bank Switzerland kürt revolutionären NFT-Künstler"

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Dukascopy TV

May 2024

"Les NFTs et l'Art Génératif: Comment la Blockchain Change le Marché de l'Art Numérique"

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The Crypto Chronicles

March 2024

"Richard - RVIG, Generative art"

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radiocite.ch

January 2024

"Merci la vie"

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Bilan

December 2023

"Comment le NFT s’impose dans l’art contemporain"

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LA MONTAGNE

June 2017

"Les fantaisies algorithmiques d’un artiste numérique"

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NFTs

Some of my works are available as NFT on Tezos and ETH blockchains:

Art Blocks

ETH NFT Generative Art platform

Visit https://artblocks.io

fx(hash)

Tezos NFT Generative Art platform

Visit https://fxhash.xyz

objkt.com

Tezos NFT Marketplace

Visit https://objkt.com

Contacts

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