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Opening Night: Thursday, December 2, 2021 Location: 1212 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL Exhibition Text: Over the last two years, a latent art movement began to flourish online dedicated to algorithmically-generated artwork on the blockchain. Commonly referred to as on-chain generative art­, the movement has given birth to a thriving ecosystem that is transforming the way both artists and collectors engage with visual aesthetics–and each other–online. As conventions evolve, questions and criticisms emerge: Can a computer program really be considered a work of art? And, if so, how does our relationship with digitally native artwork change when experienced in a physical space? The Digital explores these questions by presenting a series of art prints, digital frames, and projections of algorithmic art. Rather than reflect traditional mediums, the work is constructed from intangible inputs in lieu of tangible matter. Every piece is made up of lines of code and lives on the Ethereum blockchain. By bringing NFTs into our physical world, the exhibition contextualizes on-chain generative art as a formative movement within contemporary culture. Welcome to The Digital. --- The exhibition is curated by Sofia Garcia and Kate Hannah. The Digital is proudly brought to you by ARTXCODE through the generous support of Art Blocks and MoonPay and our supporting sponsors.
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On Blockchain AestheticsPerspectives within crypto communities use the political, social, and aesthetic to argue whether the present moment will inspire a techno utopian or techno dystopian future. The story I set out to tell in this exhibition is about this impending future, and the aesthetics through which these opinions are communicated. Abstraction has become a language to articulate this tension between a hyper-commercialized internet and a creator-centric “revolution” of ownership and exchange. The abstraction we've seen emerge in the NFT space (Autoglyphs, Artblocks and beyond) spans the visual potential of generative art. While some artists view their aesthetics as a refutation of a hyper-politicized art market, others use abstraction as a language to communicate this conflict. Thomas Piketty, an economist, finds that financial returns on capital invested outpace economic growth. Could this illustrate that labor, whether factory-based or studio-based, when attached to one’s livelihood, communicates a lack of agency? Web 3 has allowed artists to vertically integrate their creative labor, production, marketing and sales. Some artists have focused their creative labor on exchange itself. This exhibition isn't meant as a tirade of personal projections on Web 3 and its effect on artists' future. My intent was to survey a group of artists who I observed engaging these futures through a codified, predominantly abstract language. At first, I reckoned that this exploration would soon lead me to darker ends akin to Francis Bacon, Wall-e and Beeple. What I found, though, was that reconstruction, and the discombobulation which occurs in the process, are lenses to elucidate the aesthetic and affective implications of the direction in which technology is headed. We would like to thank FingerprintsDAO, Museum of Crypto Art, and Zora for opening up their collections to our exhibition. We would also like to thank the artists who trusted us to create an engaging, meaningful and exciting re-contextualization of their work.
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Perspectives within crypto communities use the political, social, and aesthetic to argue whether the present moment will inspire a techno utopian or techno dystopian future. The story I set out to tell in this exhibition is about this impending future, and the aesthetics through which these opinions are communicated. Abstraction has become a language to articulate this tension between a hyper-commercialized internet and a creator-centric “revolution” of ownership and exchange. The abstraction we've seen emerge in the NFT space (Autoglyphs, Artblocks and beyond) spans the visual potential of generative art. While some artists view their aesthetics as a refutation of a hyper-politicized art market, others use abstraction as a language to communicate this conflict. Thomas Piketty, an economist, finds that financial returns on capital invested outpace economic growth. Could this illustrate that labor, whether factory-based or studio-based, when attached to one’s livelihood, communicates a lack of agency? Web 3 has allowed artists to vertically integrate their creative labor, production, marketing and sales. Some artists have focused their creative labor on exchange itself. This exhibition isn't meant as a tirade of personal projections on Web 3 and its effect on artists' future. My intent was to survey a group of artists who I observed engaging these futures through a codified, predominantly abstract language. At first, I reckoned that this exploration would soon lead me to darker ends akin to Francis Bacon, Wall-e and Beeple. What I found, though, was that reconstruction, and the discombobulation which occurs in the process, are lenses to elucidate the aesthetic and affective implications of the direction in which technology is headed. We would like to thank FingerprintsDAO, Museum of Crypto Art, and Zora for opening up their collections to our exhibition. We would also like to thank the artists who trusted us to create an engaging, meaningful and exciting re-contextualization of their work.
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An exploration of magic numbers through space and time. ... and I hope you have time. I started off with a simple mission, acquire them all and keep the collection complete. I believe that visual art, just like a music album, should be viewed in its entirety to truly appreciate the quality of the collection of work.This exhibition was curated to do exactly that, so it begins by showcasing what is in my opinion the most influential collection of digital art in history, a complete Art Blocks Curated set (up unto this date 10/21/2021). Following is a collection of 24 pieces showcasing The Blocks Of Art club by Shvembldr, a club for generative art lovers. While the majority of these pieces can be found within Art Blocks Playground, not everything in the exhibition is from Art Blocks. The exhibition ends with a collection of pieces that are special to myself or generative art history in their own unique ways and closes out with a strange loop. Enjoy.
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An exploration of magic numbers through space and time. ... and I hope you have time. I started off with a simple mission, acquire them all and keep the collection complete. I believe that visual art, just like a music album, should be viewed in its entirety to truly appreciate the quality of the collection of work.This exhibition was curated to do exactly that, so it begins by showcasing what is in my opinion the most influential collection of digital art in history, a complete Art Blocks Curated set (up unto this date 10/21/2021). Following is a collection of 24 pieces showcasing The Blocks Of Art club by Shvembldr, a club for generative art lovers. While the majority of these pieces can be found within Art Blocks Playground, not everything in the exhibition is from Art Blocks. The exhibition ends with a collection of pieces that are special to myself or generative art history in their own unique ways and closes out with a strange loop. Enjoy.
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An exploration of magic numbers through space and time. ... and I hope you have time. I started off with a simple mission, acquire them all and keep the collection complete. I believe that visual art, just like a music album, should be viewed in its entirety to truly appreciate the quality of the collection of work.This exhibition was curated to do exactly that, so it begins by showcasing what is in my opinion the most influential collection of digital art in history, a complete Art Blocks Curated set (up unto this date 10/21/2021). Following is a collection of 24 pieces showcasing The Blocks Of Art club by Shvembldr, a club for generative art lovers. While the majority of these pieces can be found within Art Blocks Playground, not everything in the exhibition is from Art Blocks. The exhibition ends with a collection of pieces that are special to myself or generative art history in their own unique ways and closes out with a strange loop. Enjoy.
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An exploration of magic numbers through space and time. ... and I hope you have time. I started off with a simple mission, acquire them all and keep the collection complete. I believe that visual art, just like a music album, should be viewed in its entirety to truly appreciate the quality of the collection of work.This exhibition was curated to do exactly that, so it begins by showcasing what is in my opinion the most influential collection of digital art in history, a complete Art Blocks Curated set (up unto this date 10/04/2021). Following is a collection of 23 pieces showcasing The Blocks Of Art club by Shvembldr, a club for generative art lovers. While the majority of these pieces can be found within Art Blocks Playground, not everything in the exhibition is from Art Blocks. The exhibition ends with a collection of pieces that are special to myself or generative art history in their own unique ways and closes out with a strange loop. Enjoy.
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An exploration of magic numbers through space and time. ... and I hope you have time. I started off with a simple mission, acquire them all and keep the collection complete. I believe that visual art, just like a music album, should be viewed in its entirety to truly appreciate the quality of the collection of work.This exhibition was curated to do exactly that, so it begins by showcasing what is in my opinion the most influential collection of digital art in history, a complete Art Blocks Curated set (up unto this date 10/04/2021). Following is a collection of 23 pieces showcasing The Blocks Of Art club by Shvembldr, a club for generative art lovers. While the majority of these pieces can be found within Art Blocks Playground, not everything in the exhibition is from Art Blocks. The exhibition ends with a collection of pieces that are special to myself or generative art history in their own unique ways and closes out with a strange loop. Enjoy.
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In early August I purchased 104 Cryptopunks, despite primarily viewing myself as an investor rather than collector. While the pixelated PFP style may not be as showroom worthy as other NFT art, Cryptopunks represent a generational shift in art-medium, moving from physical to digital, and were a true innovation both pre-dating and inspiring the ERC-721 token standard. This gallery, created in collaboration with the wonderful team at JPG, aims to display (sometimes humorously) the nuanced attributes and artistic elements of my Cryptopunk collection. The collection was acquired by sweeping the punk ‘floor’, a term that often refers to the undifferentiated hodge-podge of the least desirable items in an NFT collection. Despite this conception, this gallery highlights connections and narratives through deliberate curation, that reveal the vast spectrum of ‘floor’ traits across gender, color, and attributes. Given the recent interest in NFTs and cryptopunks specifically, many would-be collectors are priced out of ever getting the chance to own a piece of what I believe will be the best performing NFT project in history. To help change this, this collection has been fractionalized. If you’re interested in buying a fraction of my collection, feel free to check out my vault on Fractional here (https://fractional.art/vaults/0xb35ed5c39f371f2cd4bc2edab1f8da314168186a).
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A selection of Nascent's NFT collection, acquired and curated by trent e. The fund seeks to acquire works with interesting conceptual, technical, and aesthetic merits, and that not only showcase a digitally native approach, but specifically cryptonative.
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A selection of Nascent's NFT collection, acquired and curated by trent e. The fund seeks to acquire works with interesting conceptual, technical, and aesthetic merits, and that not only showcase a digitally native approach, but specifically cryptonative.
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Merging cryptography with concrete poetry, 1111 by Kevin Abosch is a series of 1111 images composed of hexadecimal characters in different colors and formations. Owners of works in the series are granted membership to a DAO and made stakeholders in certain future projects by Abosch. One of these involves launching 1111 Kosmos, a satellite that will orbit the Earth and collect climate change data. Abosch will use this data to create new artworks that will be airdropped to 1111 holders.
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Minted as part of her Satellites From the Future series, this work showcases Anne Spalter’s mastery of AI as an artistic medium. The piece is particularly remarkable for its textural transformations, with small creases in the image recalling the cracks of varnished oil paintings.
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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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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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Exploring the programmable potential of on-chain media, 0xDEAFBEEF’s Entropy is a series of eight tokens whose audiovisual content degrades with every transfer. Since the model that generates the work is stored entirely on-chain, anyone can compile the code, using the initial transaction hash as a seed, and recreate the work’s original state. This is the first token in the series and has been transferred once, from the artist to the current owner.
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This intricate, AI-generated work by Helena Sarin is reminiscent of both ancient graven murals and the late, cellular abstractions of the French painter Jean Dubuffet. Faces, limbs, and organic forms interlock in ornate geometries that appear carefully carved by hand.
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Spanning a vast spectrum of media, Sara Ludy’s practice inhabits the interface between the physical and the virtual, the real and the imaginary, the quotidian and the sublime. Her paintings submerge the viewer in a primeval landscape of prismatic colors and drifting forms. Part simulation, part dream.
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In Rock, Boulder, Cobble, Pebble, Clement Valla split a 3D scan of a rock that he found into nine parts, which he then minted as nine separate NFTs. Anyone who owns all of the parts is entitled to collect the physical rock from Valla’s studio. The light-hearted game serves as a wry comment on the fractionalization of art.
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Minted as part of her Satellites From the Future series, this work showcases Anne Spalter’s mastery of AI as an artistic medium. The piece is particularly remarkable for its textural transformations, with small creases in the image recalling the cracks of varnished oil paintings.
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Merging cryptography with concrete poetry, 1111 by Kevin Abosch is a series of 1111 images composed of hexadecimal characters in different colors and formations. Owners of works in the series are granted membership to a DAO and made stakeholders in certain future projects by Abosch. One of these involves launching 1111 Kosmos, a satellite that will orbit the Earth and collect climate change data. Abosch will use this data to create new artworks that will be airdropped to 1111 holders.
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The photocopier in REPLICATOR is an emblem of digital image technologies and the prominent role played by mass-produced images in the history of modern art. Developed in collaboration with Manifold, REPLICATOR’s underlying smart contract causes the artwork to auto-generate new NFTs repeatedly over the course of a year. However, these descendent pieces can ‘jam’, removing that generation’s future ability to replicate.
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Tywen Kelly’s Worlding series considers how the world has been blanketed by a mesh of images that circulate, proliferate and recombine via digital technologies. This overabundance is expressed here through a montage of overgrown natural forms, whose lush colors and glitchy textures evoke both fertility and decay. “Will we be able to tell images and the surface of the earth apart?” the artist asks.
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Mutant Garden Seeder is a series of 513 works by Harm van den Dorpel that mutate over varying periods of block time. When each ‘mutant’ is minted, the transaction hash of the birth block is used to generate a ‘chromosome’ that determines both the initial form of the work and how often it will change. The work’s appearance is also responsive to the software and the shape of the window used to view it. Marndi mutates daily.
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ˈsä-v(ə-)rən-tē is the first work created by Micah Johnson on the Async Art platform. Jacque and Rayden are two real boys who have faced adversity from a young age. Every year, on the boys’ respective birthdays, certain layers of the work change to show what each boy wants to be when they grow up, offering a bitcoin wallet where people can contribute funds towards their future. The door in the center of the image opens a little bit more each year.
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In this witty and beautiful work, the artist known as Artnome finds cosmic wonder in the most prosaic of places. The image is a montage of a NASA photograph depicting a cluster of stars 22,000 light years away with a photograph by the artist of a parking space covered in rock salt outside a local Starbucks.
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Autoglyphs were the first artworks to be generated and stored entirely on Ethereum, meaning that they will exist for as long as the blockchain does. Referencing the aesthetic of 1960s computer art, their elaborate ASCII patterns are relics for a future as yet untold.
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The plumes of color in Ezra Miller’s Solvency series drift and bleed without end. In response to the uncertain permanence of the media associated with many NFTs, Miller strove to minimize the work’s dependencies. Generated on-chain using the minting transaction hash as a seed, each work is rendered within the browser via the WebGL API. A rendered copy of each work is stored on the Arweave blockchain.
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Sarah Zucker is known for her unique manner of combining digital image technologies with the obsolete medium of VHS. Her looping, low-fidelity aesthetic transports the viewer to a timeless world behind a TV screen. This ancient portal with prophetic powers embodies the spirit of Zucker’s work, which explores how the past can be a gateway to the future.
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The very first works minted on SuperRare, Robbie Barrat’s AI Generated Nude Portraits were generated by a GAN trained on thousands of painted nudes from art history. In this work, a nude figure has become a desiccated landscape broken up by pools of iridescence, the primordial dream of a post-human intelligence. It is one of three hundred portraits that were minted and given to guests at the first Christie’s Tech Summit in 2018. Only a handful were ever redeemed.
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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.
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720 Minutes by Alexis André is an experiment in generative time-keeping. 720 unique real-time clocks were minted on the Art Blocks platform, using the transaction hash as the seed to generate each work. This hexagonal piece pulses in and out of different crystalline formations. At a certain minute twice a day, the work is activated and a special display takes place.
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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.