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We are proud to present Deep Time, the first ever exhibition on JPG. Deep time refers to an expansive sense of time that dwarfs human history, stretching far into the past and forwards to the distant future. It is most commonly associated with cosmic and geological processes: the inching crawl of a glacier; the slow formation of a star; the gradual transformation of the Earth due to forces both natural and man-made. The defining quality of deep time is its evasion of a human frame of reference. It is too vast and obscure to be grasped. As the American writer John McPhee described it, if the Earth’s history is the length of an arm, human history is but a single scratch of a nail file on its middle finger. The scale of deep time can be troubling, casting a shadow of insignificance over human existence. And yet by virtue of this fact, deep time has long been an alluring subject for artists, writers, and others alike, who have been enchanted by its mystery and have embraced it in their work. Looking beyond culture, blockchain and its promise of persistence embody a different kind of deep time. Each block in a blockchain is an autonomous unit within the automated system of ‘block time’. Since the data stored on a blockchain has permanence for as long as there are active, decentralized nodes, its blocks are a potential fossil record of transactions many years or even centuries old. The following exhibition will explore these ideas through a wide-ranging selection of artworks. Some refer to deep time directly, depicting geological matter and scenes from outer space. Others have been chosen because they incorporate duration and change in imaginative ways. There are works that mutate and degrade, works that breed other works, and works that are meant to last forever. There are works that express the potential of new technologies by returning to those of the past. And there are works that invite us to reflect on time as the medium through which each of our lives is lived. We encourage you to take your time and hope you enjoy the show.
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For SALT, 0xmons and Loucas Brannier (Figure31) combine smart contracts and digital photography to create a series of time-based artworks, each of them unique, each essentially the same. Starting from a base of 180 photographs, each NFT in SALT will first display a different image in this set, cycling to the next on a daily basis. In sum, the underlying smart contract sets all 180 NFTs into an endless, asynchronous loop.
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We are proud to present Deep Time, the first ever exhibition on JPG. Deep time refers to an expansive sense of time that dwarfs human history, stretching far into the past and forwards to the distant future. It is most commonly associated with cosmic and geological processes: the inching crawl of a glacier; the slow formation of a star; the gradual transformation of the Earth due to forces both natural and man-made. The defining quality of deep time is its evasion of a human frame of reference. It is too vast and obscure to be grasped. As the American writer John McPhee described it, if the Earth’s history is the length of an arm, human history is but a single scratch of a nail file on its middle finger. The scale of deep time can be troubling, casting a shadow of insignificance over human existence. And yet by virtue of this fact, deep time has long been an alluring subject for artists, writers, and others alike, who have been enchanted by its mystery and have embraced it in their work. Looking beyond culture, blockchain and its promise of persistence embody a different kind of deep time. Each block in a blockchain is an autonomous unit within the automated system of ‘block time’. Since the data stored on a blockchain has permanence for as long as there are active, decentralized nodes, its blocks are a potential fossil record of transactions many years or even centuries old. The following exhibition will explore these ideas through a wide-ranging selection of artworks. Some refer to deep time directly, depicting geological matter and scenes from outer space. Others have been chosen because they incorporate duration and change in imaginative ways. There are works that mutate and degrade, works that breed other works, and works that are meant to last forever. There are works that express the potential of new technologies by returning to those of the past. And there are works that invite us to reflect on time as the medium through which each of our lives is lived. We encourage you to take your time and hope you enjoy the show.
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We are proud to present Deep Time, the first ever exhibition on JPG. Deep time refers to an expansive sense of time that dwarfs human history, stretching far into the past and forwards to the distant future. It is most commonly associated with cosmic and geological processes: the inching crawl of a glacier; the slow formation of a star; the gradual transformation of the Earth due to forces both natural and man-made. The defining quality of deep time is its evasion of a human frame of reference. It is too vast and obscure to be grasped. As the American writer John McPhee described it, if the Earth’s history is the length of an arm, human history is but a single scratch of a nail file on its middle finger. The scale of deep time can be troubling, casting a shadow of insignificance over human existence. And yet by virtue of this fact, deep time has long been an alluring subject for artists, writers, and others alike, who have been enchanted by its mystery and have embraced it in their work. Looking beyond culture, blockchain and its promise of persistence embody a different kind of deep time. Each block in a blockchain is an autonomous unit within the automated system of ‘block time’. Since the data stored on a blockchain has permanence for as long as there are active, decentralized nodes, its blocks are a potential fossil record of transactions many years or even centuries old. The following exhibition will explore these ideas through a wide-ranging selection of artworks. Some refer to deep time directly, depicting geological matter and scenes from outer space. Others have been chosen because they incorporate duration and change in imaginative ways. There are works that mutate and degrade, works that breed other works, and works that are meant to last forever. There are works that express the potential of new technologies by returning to those of the past. And there are works that invite us to reflect on time as the medium through which each of our lives is lived. We encourage you to take your time and hope you enjoy the show.Elena Dorfman’s series Empire Falling is a photographic meditation on the rock quarries of the Midwest. Each image is collaged from hundreds of photographs taken over several years. This layering of moments of time echoes the richly veined strata of rock that the photographs depict, which formed over many millennia.