Dmitri Cherniak is a Canadian artist residing in New York City whose work investigates automation in visual art through generative algorithms. He is most noted for his extraordinarily successful breakthrough project “Ringers”, released on the Art Blocks platform in February 2021.

Trained in computer science, Cherniak produces his art with custom software, and renders his compositions as scalable vector graphics in the browser; this approach lets him create large high-quality prints to accompany his NFTs. Inspired by both traditional artists, such as Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky, as well as generative ones, including Vera Molnar and Manolo Maon, Cherniak’s work has had an enormous impact on the field and its acceptance by the larger art world.

Believing that both the code and its output are creative productions, Cherniak does not shy away from celebrating the beauty of the technical side of his practice as well as the final aesthetics.

For “the difference between the subtleties and the subtle ties” Cherniak developed an interactive visual framework for creating works using a physics-based simulation of cell division. Within this unique environment he experiments to develop the final lively visual results. The large print buzzes with energy and a barely contained dynamism. The work can also be collects ed as an NFT.