nekropunk

It's certainly unconventional for artists to emerge from heavy industry.

Once an automation engineer embedded in the sprawling complexity of mega industrial projects, Nekropunk, aka, Jan Veselý, is now one of the most exciting new artists to emerge in crypto art.

Often isolated for long periods of time inside these giant industrial projects, he began to see parallels between these brutalist concrete and steel structures and the science fiction literature and games he was consuming. And to be inspired by them.

“My whole life was spent alone in these giant factories. I was wondering how I could connect my work with it. Because I saw lot of parallels. Logic, rules and mechanisms.”

He began to experiment with procedural generation and graphics out of curiosity and immediately felt a profound resonance with this work. Weaving a thread between the patterns found in nature, the algorithms of architecture, and of futures and pasts imagined.

“It's common here among Czechs, we are sort of forest people, the heart of nature, magic and tradition beats through everything.”

His experimental contemplations did not escape the keen eyes of his industrial overlords.

“They started using me for visualization projects on top of his automation responsibilities. I started with unity or in-house solutions for all sorts of human machine interfaces, and optical and printing systems. I loved it. I found myself in it.”

Nekropunk’s work feels fresh, and distinctly his own. Evocative of strange architectural science fiction societies that at once feel both familiar and alien. Complex universes and interconnected, imaginary worlds, exploring the boundaries between the conceivable and the fantastical. A murky beautiful space falling somewhere between nature, architecture and myth.