Sept 19 2022
Colour Time Verse
I’ve been developing two new Colour Time works for an upcoming show with Verse in London.
Colour Time Sync is a 20-minute-long colour animation which is synchronized across all representations of the work, allowing viewers in the gallery and online to experience the colour shifts at the same time.
Colour Time Generative is uses the same colour sequence as Colour Time Sync. Instead of animating through time, Generative draws this colour sequence into a gradient. As pieces are minted, the gradient is streched. Each buyer owns a section of this ever-expanding continuum. The appearance of a buyers section continually shifts as the gradient expands until the sale closes.
Below are some outputs from the generative system, which will on display in the gallery as prints. The numbers in the titles indicate the token ID and hypothetical collection size.
![Colour Time Generative 5 of 116]()
![Colour Time Generative 14 of 45]()
![Colour Time Generative 22 of 110]()
![Colour Time Generative 48 of 100]()
In a standard generative release, the decisive moment occurs during minting, random values collected and hashed into a random seed which determines the output.
In Colour Time Generative the seed of randomness is the market as a collective force, turning not just the minter but the market as a whole into co-creators of the work.
https://verse.works/exhibitions/colour-time
I’ve been developing two new Colour Time works for an upcoming show with Verse in London.
Colour Time Sync is a 20-minute-long colour animation which is synchronized across all representations of the work, allowing viewers in the gallery and online to experience the colour shifts at the same time.
Colour Time Generative is uses the same colour sequence as Colour Time Sync. Instead of animating through time, Generative draws this colour sequence into a gradient. As pieces are minted, the gradient is streched. Each buyer owns a section of this ever-expanding continuum. The appearance of a buyers section continually shifts as the gradient expands until the sale closes.
Below are some outputs from the generative system, which will on display in the gallery as prints. The numbers in the titles indicate the token ID and hypothetical collection size.
In a standard generative release, the decisive moment occurs during minting, random values collected and hashed into a random seed which determines the output.
In Colour Time Generative the seed of randomness is the market as a collective force, turning not just the minter but the market as a whole into co-creators of the work.
https://verse.works/exhibitions/colour-time