Right Click Save’s September issue carries a long interview with Eko33 (Jean-Jacques Duclaux), conducted by curator Marlene Corbun. The occasion is Calculated Skies, a project with a short public history — it debuted at NFC Lisbon, June 4-6, 2026, inside a former flour mill, presented by the digital gallery DANAE — and a long intellectual one. Duclaux traces its ancestry back 2,300 years.
One codebase, two states
The system behind Calculated Skies is a single generative codebase producing two kinds of output:
- Generative Infinity Room — a 2x2m mirrored environment where light, code, and reflection interact continuously. Two of these rooms were installed in the Lisbon flour mill.
- 20 unique artworks from the same system, two of which were shown as large-scale lightboxes.
“They are,” Duclaux says, “different states of the same system.” And on the relationship between them: “The installation is not an illustration of the code, and the lightboxes are not documentation of the room. One becomes architecture, the other becomes object.”
After the fair, the full 20-work series went live on the DANAE platform.
The ancestry argument
The interview’s deeper subject is lineage. Digital art is routinely described as immaterial, fast, without ancestry. Duclaux’s receipts run the other direction: ancient catoptrics (the study of reflection), Ibn al-Haytham’s vision theory around 1000 CE, Renaissance perspective, anamorphosis, the Claude glass, the kaleidoscope — landing at a mirrored room driven by code.
“Every screen, every sensor, every generative image is part of a much older history of optics, illusion, geometry, and self-recognition,” he says.
Two quotes that carry the argument:
“A mirror is never just a mirror. It is a technology of positioning: who sees, who is seen, from where, and under what conditions.”
“I do not want the image to become a perfect flow. I want it to retain traces of calculation, because those traces are where the work remains alive.”
Why it matters for the on-chain scene
Eko33 is a fixture of the on-chain generative art scene — his Farcaster profile (fid 315839, 2,195 followers) has been sharing and shipping this work for years. A catalog-quality interview in Right Click Save, anchored on a physical installation at a major web3 summit, is the kind of documentation that tends to precede institutional attention. The structural move — one codebase yielding both a room you stand inside and collectable objects — also reads as an answer to the recurring question of how generative art scales into physical space without becoming merch.
The interview: An Artist with an Eye for Optics | Eko33 — Right Click Save
The project page: Eko33 presented by DANAE — NFC 2026 catalogue