The while true (fabric) collection contains four jacquard fabric panels, crafted from an artist-selected hash code, produced to reflect the rich variety of while true. The fabric is paired with a digital artwork, selected by the artist, to correspond with it.
while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?
while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?
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while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?
while true is a meditation on the meaning of unboundedness. Infinity is a strange and paradoxical concept: nothing real can be “infinite”, yet the math and physics we use to describe and understand our universe is built on the concept of its existence. Take away infinity and the groundwork that ties together calculus, probability theory, differential equations and countless more fields begins to crumble. Throughout history, many philosophers have raised issues in including infinity in our metaphysical and mathematical reasoning: Brouwer and his school of intuitionism strongly rejected the idea of using impossible concepts in mathematics, arguing that math should be constructible. Aristotle rejected the idea of “actual” infinity, seeing it as something impossible. Kronecker, who famously said “God made the integers, all else is the work of man”, objected to the use of infinity and transfinite numbers in math. There is clearly truth to the fact that any infinite object is too large or impossible for our minds to truly comprehend, but infinity has clearly shown its undeniable effectiveness in helping construct models of reality. All this leaves the question: how do we explain the infinite?
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I've been fascinated with the idea of using the Computer to visually enumerate all possible states in a system. Typically, a long-form art collection has 100s of mints, chosen from billions of billions of possible outputs. However, it is totally possible and (in my opinion) fascinating to explore much more constrained systems, ones where we can express and appreciate each item of the enumeration in the context of all possible outputs.
This series, "7 Factorial", represents one of the simplest possible enumerations, namely all of the ways to permute (order) a set of items. The permutations are drawn as sorting networks, visualizing each permutation as the displacement of its constituent elements. With 7 items, there are 5040 possible permutations. Yet despite such a simple formulation, the range of outputs is both surprising and beautiful.
In celebration of this minimal, structured, yet spontaneously-arising diversity of forms, each of the 19 mints available in “7 Factorial” will be a randomly chosen permutation of 5040. To properly appreciate the full parameter space, and contextualize each of the 19 chosen mints within it, each minter will later be airdropped the full 5040 permutations with the 19 “realized” editions highlighted.
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Every edition is accompanied by a physical, watercolor plot. Each plot will be made available to its owner for the cost of shipping. Details and schedule can be found in the project website.
This piece is a study of the interaction of simple rules, relying heavily on repetition to highlight how complex and subtle these interactions become.