10,000 paintings. A lifetime's worth of images, composed by Parker Ito, generated with computer software, distributed online and worldwide. ParkerIto.net uses new technology and international commerce networks to expand how artworks are made and distributed. Notably, ParkerIto.net is the first time a painting series has been created with generative technology at this scale to produce artworks that can be redeemed for hand-produced paintings.

Combining Parker’s focus on the Internet, networked systems and traditional art making techniques, ParkerIto.net continues his experiments in using emerging technologies to discover new ways to interact with images.

To create the ParkerIto.net artworks, Parker uses rapidly improving generative image-making tools. Parker's extensive archive of source material—whether found, created by the artist, meme, gif, jpeg, text, or something else—is compiled and filtered through the generative software HashLips. The results are algorithmically produced, densely layered collages. Just as artists of the early 20th-century proposed new art forms with their collages, Parker and fellow NFT artists now update this tradition with the aid of ascendent technologies.

The project is based on the PFP format, the most popular and optimum form for NFTs because of the way they encapsulate and propel mimetic and cult power, with archetypal NFT examples taking this format, including CryptoPunks, Milady Maker and Drifella2. The central figure in these new works is the Parked Domain Girl, a popular stock photo Parker has returned to many times in his painting series, “The Most Infamous Girl in the History of the Internet” (2010 - ongoing). But here blurring genre boundaries, Parker probes at the limits of PFPs.

Parker’s early contributions emerged within a community of artists who engaged with art primarily through Internet technologies. His practice has been characterised by the creation of a vast, interconnected network of artworks. His work spans various mediums, including installations, paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, websites, books, printmaking, and now NFTs.