DEAFBEEF is a Canadian artist who pushes the boundaries of on-chain generative art using nothing but the “bare-bones” C programming language.

Having a background in electrical engineering and signal processing and music technology, I thought, “Why not start from scratch and see what can be done with ‘nothing’, just writing low level audio synthesis code on a cheap laptop without using any external libraries or expensive hardware?"
DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence
Blockchain is a decentralized ledger and we have this idea, perhaps dogmatic, that it's permanent and immutable, transferring information through time. We've seen that with many other mark-making events throughout human history such as markings on clay tablets that were the first writing systems.
DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence