Manifesto

What follows is the community charter of GeneratedArt — the set of commitments every artist, collector, curator, and steward agrees to when they take part. We update it in the open, on GitHub, with every change signed off by the curator team.

1. The artwork is the code.

A generative work is not the rendered image — it is the program that produces it from a hash. We mint the program, archive the program, and we consider the program the canonical artwork. Renders are merely one consequence of running it.

2. Determinism is not optional.

Every project ships through a validator that runs it twice with the same hash and rejects the merge if a single pixel differs. If your work needs randomness, seed it from the on-chain hash. Never Math.random().

3. Open source by default.

Every project lives in a public repository under the GeneratedArt GitHub organisation. Licenses are the artist's choice, but the source must be readable, forkable, and pinned to IPFS.

4. The chain is the registry, not the renderer.

Tokens are ERC-721. The on-chain record is small: hash, bundle CID, metadata CID, royalty splits. Rendering happens client-side from that record, so the work survives the disappearance of any one server, including ours.

5. Royalties are enforced where they can be.

Primary sales settle to a 70 / 25 / 5 split between artist, gallery, and platform commons. Secondary royalties are set per project via EIP-2981, paid through an on-chain splitter contract — no off-chain bookkeeping.

6. Curation is human.

Artist applications and project releases are reviewed by a rotating curator group. We use GitHub issues and pull requests as the audit trail — no private Discord channels, no DMs.

7. The physical world matters.

Our Geneva gallery is the working bridge between the chain and the street. Selected drops are exhibited in person and shipped as ePaper dongles. Holding the digital token entitles the collector to claim the physical artefact.

8. We answer to the holders.

Steward keys are multi-sig. Treasury is public. Governance proposals ship as pull requests. If the platform goes off course, the holders take the contracts, the bundles, and the gallery archive — all of it survives without us.

v1.0 — Geneva, April 2026 · edit on GitHub