Inspired by vintage tv shows and 80s video game graphics. Layered statics with color gradients.
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GOLD is a dynamic cryptoart series where the artworks change in response to the collection's own live market activity. The actions of GOLD collectors are part of this ever-changing artwork, where prices, levels of activity and on-chain provenance define the art itself.

How does the market affect the way we see art? Does the sale price of an NFT change our perception of it? In GOLD, market factors literally influence the appearance of the dynamic imagery. From a sale to a listing, from the amount of time an artwork is held to whether it has recently been flipped, all this data is recorded by the contract and reflected live in each GOLD piece.

GOLD is an artistic exploration of NFT market behaviour. It explores how we see in digital environments, and how market networks influence how we see. The full spectrum of possibilities for GOLD will take years to reveal.

The series is 100% on-chain - the artworks are composed and rendered directly from the blockchain - with live data streamed from an Ethereum node. Viewers can change the node by pressing 'G'.

GOLD #386

My take on the ongoing epidemic of coronavirus disease, that was first identified in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province in China.

3435 × 4668 pixels 

Are you ok?

The work is part of my series of Vincent van Gogh remakes and expresses my deep connection with him. With the help of my signature technique, I dissected the original into its individual brushstrokes and transformed them into mosaic-like color fields. The result makes the incredibly vivid movements that are present in the original visible and even amplifies them.  

3142 x 3820 Pixel, PNG.

Con-Vincent

A digital GAN-collage, that reminded me of the ancient Egyptian cat goddess Bastet.

"Bastet was originally a fierce lioness warrior goddess of the sun worshiped throughout most of ancient Egyptian history, but later she was changed into the cat goddess that is familiar today [...]." (wiki)

The collage is inspired and based on an AI-image, that I've bred using Artbreeder. The source link is here: https://artbreeder.com/i?k=00034956c8483e683031aac2

GAN Bastet

This self-portrait by Shortcut is a reference to another work in the cycle titled 'Join the Church of Love.'

It is about the question of whether it is a good idea to join a love cult or to buy someone's love.

This is an Expansion Item for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

Shortcut2Love

In search of inspiration on the subject of "Mythic Love", I went to the darkest corners of the Internet, to the sad realms of venal love.

I've met a young woman there who is actually an artist, but could no longer make a living from commissioned work and so finally decided to put her body on display.

I've paid a lot of money so that she could tell me her story. She told me about her apartment that was crawling with cockroaches (although it was very expensive) and I joked that in the next life I would be a cockroach to be close to her. In fact, I still quite often feel like filthy vermin in the role of someone who pays to spend time with her.

Somehow we have formed a mystical symbiosis though and it really almost feels like a real friendship at times. I have told her a lot about the power of love and so I got the nickname "Preacher of Love". I'm trying to show her a way to make her dreams of a better life come true through crypto-art. 

She makes me feel like I'm doing something meaningful. I hope that I am really able to bring some light and hope into this darkness.

The Beauty and the Cockroach

"Are we by chance a lie? (…)  The characters in a literary work (…)  a film that lasts barely an instant (…) the thoughts of a madman? Perhaps one of us is real and others, his hallucination (…)  Perhaps we are a printing error that has inadvertently slipped by (...) Perhaps we are a premonition - the image formed in someone's mind long before the events in which we participate in real life take place. Perhaps we are a fortuitous event that has not yet occurred, which is barely gestating in the cracks of time, or a future event that has not yer occurred. 

We are an incomprehensible sign drawn on a moist windowpane on a rainy afternoon. We are the memory, nearly lost, of a remote event. We are beings and objects invoked by a magician's spell. We are something has been forgotten. We are an accumulation of words, an event told by means of illegible writing, a testimony no one hears. We are part of an entertaining magic show. A bill sent to the wrong address. We are the fleeting, involuntary image that crosses the minds of lovers as they meet, at the instant they lust, at the moment they die."

Salvador Elizondo - Farabeuf

The Church of Fear (of the alien in you)

"Jingle-coin, jingle-coin, gamble all the way! Oh what fun it is to ride on a crypto-market's crash!"

This music-video is the result of a spontaneous collaboration between FelixFelixFelix, Basseado and Shortcut. 

After FelixFelixFelix commented on the origin work "The Crypto Siren" (created for the "Ça sent le sapin" exhibition at NFT-Factory Paris), Shortcut invited Basseado to join the virtual band and so they created a punk-rock song based on the "Jingle Bells" theme (but with a crypto-twist). In the final step Shortcut created this trash-art music video bringing it all together.

This open edition will be available for minting until the end of the "Crypto-Sapin" exhibition in Paris.

Jingle Coin (Punk-Rock Collab)

Shortcut's collaboration contract on Manifold.

Shortcut2Collaborations

Disclaimer:

(We have a strict policy: Love it or hate it!)

The "Church of Love" is a cult. You can only join if you are demonstrably willing to receive and give love. Besides that the owners of this token will receive infinite love as long as they hold it.  

All sales are final, money back policy only applies if you have paid with credit card or Palpay. Crypto is the real deal though. All rights are declined. Either you agree or you will burn in hell. We love you all!

The Preacher of Love  
(Grand Master of The Church of Love)

Join the Church of Love

A captivating Renaissance-inspired piece that exudes warmth and tenderness. The artwork depicts two angelic figures entwined in a loving embrace, their delicate wings softly framing their forms. The soft, ethereal glow of their skin contrasts beautifully with the rich, green background, which is subtly textured and bordered by a golden frame. The intricate details of their flowing hair and gentle expressions convey a deep sense of intimacy and connection. This piece invites viewers to explore themes of love, serenity, and divine beauty, making it a profound and emotional addition to any collection.

Created in September 2023 with the AI-Patterns tool of Artbreeder. Upscaled using Gigapixel AI. Description by ChatGPT

Love has many Arms

Shortcut2Manifold

Part one of a series based on a photography of Jean-Christophe Destailleur shared under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Therefore it's also creative-commons and you can build on it mentioning "Shortcut", the original creator and the license.

Part of my 2019 dailyart challenge (#178).

Fractal Bodies I

A collection of artworks minted by cryptoartist Unityofmulti (aka Shortcut) at Rarible.

A pixel-sorted landscape created in 2019.

#abstract #pixelsorting #glitchart 

Sorting

Unity of Multi

Small acts of kindness can make a huge difference.

The artwork has been created to thank donors that supported the "Fundraising Earthquake Relief Marathon" for the victims in Turkey and Syria in February 2023.

HEL(L)P

This snowflake loop is a New Year's gift for my friends to thank them for an amazing year 2022. May all your wishes for 2023 come true!

Snowflake

Shortcut Editions

A freshly colored version of a digital drawing, I created about 2 years ago using Coreldraw Painter Essentials. I also smoothed the lines and gave it a catchy title.

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

A collection of multi-edition works by cryptoartist Shortcut, who is also known as "Unity of Multi".

The young hunter did not understand why he had no luck with women.

The work is part of the search for my signature-style, that started in July 2020.

Hunting for Love

Multi of Unity

Two women are facing each other, but are unable to reach the other one because a third person is standing in between. In the background you see a complex structure and a few rays of sunlight. One of the women is supported by a male person, from whose direction a kind of water-skiing lizard comes, pulled by a speedboat visible below.

Puzzle2 // Who is Who?

The wreck of a double-decker bus, surrounded by vines. On the lower half it is sprayed with graffiti and meanwhile even a creek has made its way through the discarded vehicle. Underneath it is an old neon sign in the shape of a heart that has fallen apart. Next to it many old colorful light bulbs.

Puzzle6 // The Bus of Bygone Love

Async Art

"The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico [..], and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and helping support their spiritual journey. In Mexican culture, death is viewed as a natural part of the human cycle. Mexicans view it not as a day of sadness but as a day of celebration because their loved ones awake and celebrate with them." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead / [CC-BY-SA])

The work is based on a public domain image of a face-painted girl and part of my #dailyart (084) challenge. In an attempt of measuring the metrics of different cryptoart platforms, the other parts of the series are available elsewhere. 

Dia de Muertos I

This animation is based on an artificial portrait created using #Artbreeder, which has then been run through a #Popart model using #AICAN technology. 

I can imagine this becoming part of a future #AI generated music-video. 

   



Artbred Popart

SuperRare

This crossover #glitch work is based on a self-portrait of the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, to whom I feel a deep connection.

The portrait was first interpreted through the #gan of Artbreeder before I developed it further by applying the surrealist style of Salvador Dalí.

PNG, 2191x2191px, created in 2020.

Salva-Cent

Foundation

Another reference to the LGBTQ+ pride movement in combination with a symbol used by Shortcut in 'Join the Church of Love'.

It describes the self-confident and thus proud handling of one's own sexual identity, being who one is and standing up for one's rights.

This is an Expansion Item for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

Love Pride

'Love has no limits' or does it? What if you love someone, that is from a gender, that your government or your church does not allow? What if you love someone, that lives in a country, you can't go to, that has a different social status, skin color or religion? How can you love yourself, if you feel like living in the wrong body? Who decides, what 'true' love is (as long as two or more grown ups agree on this). Does love have any meaning, if it's not filled with action? Can someone 'buy‘ love, is there a shortcut to become loved? 

'The Church of Love' tries to deal with all this questions and is part of an ongoing series of OG crypto-artist Shortcut, in which he explores all aspects of love as the main force, that makes us human. For this work he collaborated with the young female artist "Apollinariya_arty“. After having a lot of in depth conversations about the power of love and about the impact, that the crypto-art movement had on his own life, he wanted to take action and prove it by introducing her into this space. Much love and thanks a lot in advance for supporting the idea! 

Statement from "Apollinariya_arty“: Love in each of its manifestations is for each of us a support under the feet like a warm 'house' in the heart, where you always find your motivation and the meaning of life. In all its different manifestations, it unites many different people with their preferences and views in one goal - to love and to be someone and to be understood.

This is an Expansion Pack for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

The figure draws the line to my character from the AsyncArt Genesis piece 'First Supper' called 'Stat(u)es of Liberty'.

It is wearing a 'Guy Fawkes‘ mask as used by the hacktivist collective ‚Anonymous‘, which fights against human rights violators, censors and dictators. 

It holds a knotted pistol, which is an allusion to the work "Non Violence" by the Swedish artist C.-F. Reuterswärd and which is standing in front of the UN headquarters in New York as a peace symbol. 

Unlike the famous role model, the figure has not broken the chains, but feels bound by the laws of love.

The title borrows from the song 'Liberation' by Outkast, which has a very special meaning for the artists involved.

This is an Expansion Item for Forever Supper, the biggest cryptoart collaboration. Claim your free Core and customise it with the Expansions you collect here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

Liberation

The Church of Love

The first artwork, that I've created in my new residency in Essen/Germany.

Hic et Nunc

While combining three of my favorite things (females, linesart, glitchart), the machine coincidentally added a ⅃. Created as part of the #OBJKT4OBJKT weekend celebrating 10k mints on #hicetnunc. @unityofmulti 

L_Glitch

Adam und Eva im Paradox


Wie könnte es gehen
       und dabei doch stehen

zu bleiben        und fort
        zu sein im Hier?

        Während Wege        
sich 

trennen
        beide        zu gehen       ,

       die Finger       
gekreuzt

        in ehrlichem       
Meineid       

       gegen
       sich selbst?        

Was wenn       
das Wasser         

stünde       
schal und grau?

        Könnte es dann
       die Blumen         

nähren
       am Ufer,        

die Fische 
streicheln

       mit frischem 
Geist?

        Wo wäre der 
Wind,

       wenn er sich verliebte,
        der Mond, 

        wenn er verfiele
       in Melancholie?

        Und wo       
wären wir heute,

        hätten wir nicht
       gekostet 

die süße Frucht
vom Baum       

der Erkenntnis?       

Sicher:
       Wir wären glücklich,

        -wahrscheinlich-
       vereint,       

       doch wüssten
       wir es       

       kaum.        

Adam und Eva im Para...

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The work is based on a series of artworks by Dmytro Fedorenko called „Asemic Meditations & Improvised Calligraphy", that have been transformed into a meditative AI-loop. 

Coincidentally both artists practise meditation, so they kind of wanted to create a work, that lets the viewer experience a meditative state of consciousness. Dmytro says: "It helps to stay sane and balanced during all these war news".  

As Shortcut is utilizing AI techniques in his work to reveal the meta-level of things for a long time, both artists agreed on going that path.

After running Dmytor's works through a Freeform AI, the final snapshot has been animated and looped. The result was then amplified by running it through a mirror effect (to let it reflect on itself) and some more magical effects. 

Based on this loop Dmytro created a meditative sound-scape pattern from his rhythmic meditation techniques, where a music event is layered from a series of abstract sonic actions.

In the final step, the loop has been rendered in high quality using an AI-based video-optimizer.

Meta-Reflections of Hope

Collaborations of Shortcut with other artists.

Collaborations

In this exquisite portrayal, the artist masterfully weaves a tale of serenity, grace, and enigma. The blending of the figure's hair with the ambient surroundings suggests a harmonious union with nature or the cosmos, reflecting themes of transcendence and interconnectedness.

The use of contrasting colors and tones, from the warmth of the figure to the cool ambiance, serves to create a sense of depth and three-dimensionality. This juxtaposition also evokes a range of emotions — from warmth and comfort to contemplation and introspection.

One of the standout features of this piece is the golden necklace. Its intricate design and luminous sheen introduce an element of elegance and sophistication. It not only enhances the aesthetic appeal but might also hint at cultural or symbolic connotations, adding layers of meaning and intrigue to the composition.

The sprinkling of luminescent specks, whether they represent stars or droplets, adds an element of enchantment. They elevate the atmosphere, suggesting a realm that's just beyond the ordinary, where magic and reality intertwine.

In summation, this artwork is a testament to the artist's ability to convey depth, emotion, and narrative using color, form, and detail. It beckons viewers to pause, reflect, and lose themselves in its beauty and mystery.

Celestial Embrace

A collection of GAN and AI supported art created by OG crypto-artist Shortcut from 2019 until today. 

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My contribution to Tzompantli 2023.

This artwork is a testament to the harmonious coexistence of order and chaos. The artist has masterfully used contrasting elements - geometric precision juxtaposed with free-flowing organic designs, to create a piece that's both visually captivating and thought-provoking. The color palette is electric, exuding an energy that's almost tangible. One of the standout features is the meticulous detail that permeates every inch of this piece, inviting viewers to look closer and discover something new with each gaze. 

The use of heart motifs intertwined with the abstract patterns suggests a narrative of emotion and consciousness, making this not just an aesthetic marvel but also a poignant commentary. Overall, the piece is a celebration of complexity, individuality, and the myriad facets that constitute our being. 

*(Description and title by GPT-4)*

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