Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT

Cytographia by Golan Levin NFTs were sold 5 times in the last 7 days. The total sales volume for Cytographia by Golan Levin was $779.82. The average Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT price was $156.

Art Blocks Collection: Curated

Project Description: Cytographia is an elegy for species we will never know, or will never know again, expressed through generative illustrations from an imaginary book about imaginary organisms. The artwork depicts speculative cell structures whose appearances and movements arise emergently and in response to real-time user interactions. Cytographia was created using p5.js (an open-source programming toolkit for the arts) and may run best in the Chrome browser on OSX.

An algorithmic "neoincunabulum of xenocytology", Cytographia presents an interactive diagram of a one-celled microorganism, styled to evoke a hand-drawn engraving. Every aspect of this illustration is generated through custom code, including the simulated behavior of the depicted creature, the poiesis of its anatomy, the calligraphic quality of its lines, the asemic letterforms of its labels, and the virtual "paper" on which it is rendered. Cytographia's drawings may be exported as high-resolution PNG images, or in an SVG vector format suitable for pen-plotting on A4 paper.

The Cytographia project draws inspiration from several historically significant books that visually and methodically documented encounters with the unknown. These include Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665), a landmark of scientific observation in which living cells were described for the first time; Edmund Fry's Pantographia (1799), an attempt to compile exemplars of all the world's writing systems; Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1899), a rich exploration of symmetry and structural hierarchy in natural forms; and Luigi Serafini's hallucinatory Codex Seraphinianus (1981), a visual encyclopedia of an artist's imagined world. The generative letterforms in Cytographia are loosely based on 16th-century typefaces by Ludovico degli Arrighi.

Cytographia represents a culmination of several enduring threads in Golan Levin's thirty-year oeuvre of interactive software art, including research into responsive blobs (e.g. Polygona Nervosa, 1997); artificial life (e.g. Obzok, 2001); the use of physics simulations in computational drawing (e.g. Floccus, 1999) and the algorithmic generation of asemic writing systems (e.g. Alphabet Synthesis Machine, 2002).

Cytographia requires a modern browser with WebGL and hardware acceleration enabled. The recommended configuration for Cytographia is the Chrome browser on MacOS, in which the artwork is known to produce consistent and replicable results. The project responds to both mouse/touch and keyboard interactions. An index of Cytographia's key commands can be displayed by pressing h (for "help"). These key commands provide access to functionality including file export; toggles that enable or disable various graphical options, potentially improving performance on some systems; and access to a playful "sandbox" mode, in which a collector or visitor can assemble the organelles of their own imaginary lifeform.

NFTs sold
last 7 days

5

Trading volume
last 7 days

$780

Cytographia by Golan Levin Value
Average price last 7 days

$156

Recent Cytographia by Golan Levin sales

Cytographia by Golan Levin Price Chart

Top Selling Cytographia by Golan Levin NFTs of the last 30 days

NFTDate Price
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Cytographia #277
about 1 month ago $1069
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Cytographia #163
about 1 month ago $267
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Cytographia #246
about 1 month ago $267
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Cytographia #325
about 1 month ago $267
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Cytographia #258
about 1 month ago $267
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Cytographia #258
19 days ago $178
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Cytographia #258
29 days ago $173
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Cytographia #415
26 days ago $169
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Cytographia #238
15 days ago $161
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Cytographia #215
1 day ago $161
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Cytographia #210
1 day ago $161
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Cytographia #166
5 days ago $153
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Cytographia #251
5 days ago $153
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Cytographia #350
7 days ago $153
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Cytographia #314
15 days ago $146
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Cytographia #312
15 days ago $146
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Cytographia #391
15 days ago $139
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Cytographia #45
15 days ago $139
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Cytographia #290
15 days ago $111
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Cytographia #212
15 days ago $111
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Cytographia #238
15 days ago $109
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Cytographia #230
15 days ago $109
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Cytographia #251
15 days ago $106
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Cytographia #215
15 days ago $106

Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT - Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

â–¶ What is a Cytographia by Golan Levin?
Cytographia by Golan Levin is a NFT (Non-fungible token) collection. A collection of digital artwork stored on the blockchain.
â–¶ What was the most expensive Cytographia by Golan Levin sale?
The most expensive Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT sold was Cytographia #277. It was sold for $1.1k on February 17th, 2025 (about 1 month ago).
â–¶ How many Cytographia by Golan Levin were sold recently?
There were 28 Cytographia by Golan Levin NFTs sold in the last 30 days.
â–¶ How much does a Cytographia by Golan Levin cost?
In the last 30 days, the cheapest Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT sales were below $108, and the highest sales were for over $267. The median price for a Cytographia by Golan Levin NFT was $153 in the last 30 days.
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