generated images, 2021
software, keypresses
Transactions on the Ethereum network are verified by a system called proof of work, which involves forcing computers to solve meaningless, difficult equations before data can be written to the blockchain.
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/mar/03/another-new-world/
The most popular series of NFT collectibles are algorithmically generated. Most culture now has the feeling of having been made by algorithm; and the reason for this, is that humans have begun to act like algorithms.Each image in Proof of Work is generated by manually entering thousands of random values into a bespoke application. The application converts each keypress into a color value, and sets a single pixel to that value.
https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick
As the artist will inevitably fail to enter true random values, patterns arise in each image which encode their affective state into the image.
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