[SABOTAGE #253](https://sabotage.kim/token/253) / Real-time animation, variable size. Created by Kim Asendorf, 2022 / [https://sabotage.kim](https://sabotage.kim)

SABOTAGE #253

**Cargo** is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.

ASDF: “My work should offer individual ways of interpretation, or even allow one to find some self in it. It wants to inspire some thoughts about dynamics and systemics and also just mesmerize the audience, capture them in a little fantasy, or just for a brief moment in a state of satisfaction.”

Cargo is the latest work in Kim Asendorf’s ongoing work series of pixel pattern animations. Starting with [monogrid](https://monogrid.xyz) in 2021, and [Sabotage](https://sabotage.kim) in 2022, both highly conceptual series, therefore visually very raw and unimaginable. Asendorf discovered various interesting details in these works, which eventually became fundamental in his artistic expression.

Cargo is a real time WebGL software written in JavaScript and GLSL. At its core is a flip-flop render buffer, also known as feedback buffer. That means the animation is alternately rendered in two different frame buffers. This technique allows the usage of the previous frame of the animation as an asset in the current rendering, which allows for a series of reactive animation strategies.

An initial image with variable structures and patterns is rendered and subsequently loaded into the frame buffer. A fragment shader is used to apply a set of animation algorithms that make the pixel move and a set of reset algorithms that constantly try to recreate the initial image. The final animation happens in selected containers and is always a combination of two algorithms, one from each set. By regularly animating and partially resetting the pixels, a wide range of movement patterns appear.

Cargo is a responsive and pixel exact artwork and it will fill the screen on any display size, thus changing the total amount of used pixels accordingly. This results in the fact that the detail level in the artwork is changing depending on the dimensions. The overall structure is consistently stretching the x and y axis independently. Single containers scale along the dimensions and offer more pixels to render the patterns at a larger representation compared to a smaller representation. This behavior leads to a brilliance, perfect pixels, a crisp rendering with nothing like compression artifacts.

This software includes the [simplex noise](https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js) JavaScript implementation by Jonas Wagner and the [cellular noise](https://github.com/stegu/webgl-noise) GLSL code by Stefan Gustavson.

Cargo #0

monogrid is a collection of 256 real-time animations created by Kim Asendorf. 2021/10

https://monogrid.xyz

monogrid 97

On-chain real-time animation, variable dimension. Kim Asendorf, 2023.

Alternate 2v1

Real-time animation, variable size.  Created by Kim Asendorf, 2021  [Rainbow Grid](https://rainbowgrid.xyz)

Rainbow P64-2FB

[SABOTAGE #100](https://sabotage.kim/token/100) / Real-time animation, variable size. Created by Kim Asendorf, 2022 / [https://sabotage.kim](https://sabotage.kim)

SABOTAGE #100

On-chain multi-channel real-time animation, variable dimension. Kim Asendorf & Leander Herzog, 2023.

Chrome Channel 110

Chrome Channel 38

Chrome Channel 117

Kim Asendorf & Leander Herzog

**CHROME**, collection of 128 channels, 2023

*On-Chain multi-channel real-time animation, JavaScript, GLSL, variable dimensions*

Chrome is a 128 channel realtime animation, coordinated by universal time (UTC). It emerges from a continuous linear motion, interrupted by a choreography between rhythm and random. Every channel is offset one additional second into the future, based on the token id assigned by the custom smart contract. This relation becomes visible when multiple channels are running in a shared space. Compositions emerge and evolve at various regular intervals, without ever repeating. Once per hour the synchronization stops and all channels act individually, before they transition back to coordination.

[https://chrome.gl](https://chrome.gl)

Chrome by Kim Asendorf & Leander Herzog

[SABOTAGE #94](https://sabotage.kim/token/94) / Real-time animation, variable size. Created by Kim Asendorf, 2022 / [https://sabotage.kim](https://sabotage.kim)

SABOTAGE #94

Check the full collection on [sabotage.kim](https://sabotage.kim). 
Sabotage pictures the constant fight of order versus chaos. It takes shape of a series of real time animations that move pixels in a simple but oddly surprising way. Central to the animation are various sets of patterns such as grids, lines and gradients that are arranged on the canvas to create an initial state of order. The rows start to shift to the left and right and in the middle of the canvas, the 'saboteur' is shifting pixels from the top to the bottom to manipulate the order of the patterns. The process runs endlessly and mixes pixels into new compositions while also restructuring the order on its edges.

SABOTAGE by Kim Asendorf

Rainbow P16-7B

A series of 54 real-time animations created by Kim Asendorf (2021). 
[Smart Contract](https://etherscan.io/address/0xF3D751855b21bf0b17C229106f6C428C838C4917) written by the artist.
Overview and easy access to IPFS links: [rainbowgrid.xyz](https://rainbowgrid.xyz)

Rainbow Grid by Kim Asendorf

4807 DIVISIONS

16293 DIVISIONS

Foundation

Cargo #464

Cargo #827

Cargo by Kim Asendorf

**Event Horizon** is a minimal simulation of circular energy fields that are traveling along paths to manipulate all matter within their reach. Various energies are mixing and interacting when colliding in the same space, creating dynamics and movements that alter the underlying grid and draw new patterns along their way through space.

Event Horizon #30

Event Horizon #23

Event Horizon by Kim Asendorf

Each monogrid artwork gets initialized with a start up algorithm that builds up a set of rectangles and fills them with pixels. There are two different styles, 'Pixel' and 'Line', to create the initial image.

There is a set of 16 animations at work. 4 noise based animations, 4 shifting animations, 4 modulo based animation and 4 reset animations, all run in parallel. Each animation selects a rectangle from the initial setup and edits the pixels in this area. The selection process runs independently and animations can overlap which results in a new style of animation.

monogrid 1.1 is based on the original series at https://monogrid.xyz, but there are no black/white versions included. The color palette is a mixture of one of 12 colors plus black or white.
The fragment shader has been updated in the way the 16 different animations get summed up. This version would appear more chaotic and organic.

monogrid 1.1 - Collectors Edition
Kim Asendorf, 2022



monogrid 1.1 CE #21

monogrid 1.1 CE #57

monogrid 1.1 CE

Real time animation (WebGL)
Variable dimension
2022

Nazca is a group of living glyphs made in the soil of the GPU. There are 17 figures that get combined and mixed over three layers. The figures vary in complexity but are generally created with vertical and horizontal lines only. Figures have at least one seed, some even have a seed per path. A seed is an oscillating pixel that can be compared to a square wave oscillator of audio synthesis and is usually followed by a path or a set of paths. The purpose of the paths is to send the pixels along the lines to make the figures visible through movement and to create a reduction to pure animation.

👽 Kim Asendorf

NAZCA #103

NAZCA #242

NAZCA

"Das System lässt keine Überraschung zu. Überraschung ist Ausdruck partieller Unkenntnis. Überraschung weist auf Mangel von Wissen hin, deutet Leerstellen an. Bisher hatten sie keine Leerstellen festgestellt." — Herbert W. Franke

ZOOM explores linear scaling of pixels by zooming into a noisy framebuffer. Various zoom levels are composed one below the other, becoming a cinematic animation through iteration of the hue values of the pixels in the framebuffer.

In Gedenken an Herbert W. Franke
Kim Asendorf, 2022

ZOOM (4hwf) #63

ZOOM (4hwf) #68

ZOOM (4hwf)

Tr4ns4ctions is a series of real-time animations that use pixels to create an abstraction of the movement of values. The pixels are constantly rearranging, being transferred from offer to taker, liquify, appear and disappear. They are forming endless compositions, sometimes intransparent or with strange spins.

The level of abstraction has been set to a 2x pixel size and the color palette of the NES with 12 different color modes. 16 pixel patterns serve as the fundamental building blocks and a simplex noise field determines the direction of movement.

click || space => pause/unpause

View all tr4ns4ctions at https://tr4ns4ctions.com

Kim Asendorf, 2022

tr4ns4ctions #4

tr4ns4ctions #1

tr4ns4ctions

The formal structure of a book is beautiful by itself, but its aesthetic is the tacit atmosphere within which events take place in a story.

The WebGL real-time animation sets up an initial grid based on the fxhash. The grid cells get subdivided into another grid and the resulting cells become filled with pixels in color (~33%) or black and white (~66%).
The colored pixels come in 3 different coloring styles.
- Big Palette (~49%)
- Small Palette (~49%)
- Monochrome [b/w] (~2%)
4 noise algorithms modify the pixels of selected grid cells while at the same time 4 reset algorithms reassemble the initial image. The selected cells switch over time.

Reading a book #4

Reading a book #1

Reading a book

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Hic et Nunc

Real-time animation with 10 vertical bars in blue/yellow. 

Created with stack.gl in 2021.

Untitled (8)

C0L0RGRiD Special Edition 5
Real-time animation, 3 colors, variable size.
Kim Asendorf, 2021

C0L0RGRiD SE5

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monogrid cb

Swoosh Reshape # 17

ON47 #5

kim was here...

Typed

Mountain Tour 2.0 - Ipz Abeinnr (2022) is based on found footage of the Piz Bernina panorama and applies image manipulation through pixel sorting.

In 2022 the Engadin was awarded as "Digital Valley" of Switzerland. At the invitation of miaEngidina and CfC St. Moritz, Roehrs & Boetsch realized the drop of Mountain Tour 2.0 - Ipz Abeinnr as a surprise gift for the invited guests of the award ceremony (22.06.2022, Zernez).

Kim Asendorf
(@kimasendorf)

Ipz Abeinnr

Versum

Pixel Sorting, 2010
Found footage, image manipulation, custom software

Lefka Ori, Crete, Greece
(35.3145144, 24.0001504)

PNG, 889 × 1023 px, 2.0 MB

Kim Asendorf

Aefkl Ior A

Pixel Sorting, 2010
Found footage, image manipulation, custom software

Lefka Ori, Crete, Greece
(35.3145144, 24.0001504)

PNG, 889 × 1023 px, 2.2 MB

Kim Asendorf

Aefkl Ior B

Mountain Tour

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1/1s

Painted with custom software by Kim Asendorf. ©️2022.
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/ˈjuːnɪt/ (fertige Einheit eines technischen Gerätes)
Real time animation series, variable dimension, 60fps.

Unit is a series of four real time animations with an identical core algorithm but variations in color and direction of movement. The ruleset for the animation has been implemented in a deterministic fragment shader with a feedback framebuffer. The shader is delegated by data from three virtually generated textures. Texture one and two are created once on initialization by the same algorithm to add structural and color data in two different versions. The third texture prompts usage instructions on how to use the informations stored in texture one and two, and how to apply and combine the eight animation algorithms.

Kim Asendorf, 2022

UNIT W

Series of 4 real time animations.
https://kimasendorf.com/unit/

UNIT N

UNIT

Painted with custom software by Kim Asendorf. ©️2022.
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FRATZE

Our minds have dedicated memory slots for each person we have ever met. These slots are constantly rewritten and updated with new experiences and the alteration of the person over time, thus deleting or overwriting old data.
Memories are the sum of all the residues of images, those which remained, those which were confirmed. But how can we touch this erasure that we can no longer reach?
We were all children, and teenagers, and this radical transition is the perfect template to visualize the memory behavior of our minds, resembles somewhere this uncontrolled deletion, this reassembly of cells, or pixels.
These in-between states, that we all share have been materialized, suspended in time, so that we never forget where we're coming from, never pretend that it's all real. Someday soon this will all be someone else's dream.

Ellie Hedden & Kim Asendorf, 2022

DREAM://odile

A collaboration between Ellie Hedden (Ariel Institute) + Kim Asendorf.

DREAM://scout

Someone Else's Dream

Real-time animation, variable dimension. Kim Asendorf, 2025.

Raster und Spektrum

A collection of 1/1 real-time animations running on a custom smart contract exclusively written for 100% on-chain artworks. The code is stored completely on-chain and through its small size it can be delivered directly from the contract without any third party server involved. Additionally a cover image is also stored on-chain in SVG format, and has been integrated into the metadata response to be served directly along the animation script.

Real-time animation, Kim Asendorf, 2023 (press h for help)

Fixed Pixel

Lights by Kim Asendorf

Alternate 16v1

Alternate is a collection of abstract real-time animations, that start with simple compositions and color palettes to evolve endlessly and to develop a depth in geometry and color over time. All pixel movements are restricted to their eight surrounding neighbors and occur at the speed of exactly one pixel per frame.

The artworks are written in GLSL (WebGL2) and JavaScript, utilize the P3 color space and respond to any screen size.

The code is fully on-chain to be delivered directly from the Smart Contract without any third party render engine involved. Unlike usual, the work extends into the field of action of the preview image, making it part of the work.

Each NFT includes 4 versions of the artwork, that can be alternated by its owner by calling the modify function of the Smart Contract. The alternation call is protected by a fee and can not be reverted.

Alternate 64v1

Alternate by Kim Asendorf

On-chain real-time animation, variable dimension. Kim Asendorf, 2024.

X0X335

On-Chain Real-Time Animations. Kim Asendorf [2024], commissioned by Tribute Labs, curated by XX DAO (f/k/a Bright Opps DAO).

X0X110

Generated by an algorithm, the entire spectrum of the color of noises emerges in Kim Asendorf’s series COLORS OF NOISE. These colored noises are visualized in a flickering mesh of lines, creating a moiré pattern. The different sounds have different effects on the listener, who is directly drawn into the audio-visual experience, immersing into a multisensory artwork.

COLORS OF NOISE #24

COLORS OF NOISE by Kim Asendorf was exhibited on Feral File in May 2023, as part of the COLORS OF NOISE exhibition, curated by Peggy Schoenegge.

COLORS OF NOISE #16

COLORS OF NOISE By Kim Asendorf

PXL DEX is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL DEX is the first artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet. Kim Asendorf, 2025.

Pixel Deck 73

PXL DEX is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL DEX is the first artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet.

The NFTs can be minted for 0.5 ETH plus 0.000001 ETH per pixel. Each pixel is actually a PXL token and will initially be owned by the PXL DEX Smart Contract to be assigned to the minted NFT. PXL tokens can be withdrawn and deposited by the owner. The minter is allowed to mint up to 500.000 PXL tokens along with the NFT. Each Deck has an additional allowance of 500.000 PXL to be minted any time later. The allowance is bound to the NFT and will transfer along with the NFT ownership.

A single Deck can hold all available PXL tokens, there is no limit on the Smart Contract level. The only limitation is the GPU of the computer that displays the Deck.

Pixel Deck 233

PXL DEX

With Doppelgänger, Quantum and Justin Aversano unveil a collection of 1000 unseen outtakes from the healing journey of Twin Flames restructured through code. This collection is a set of 1000 unique animations created in collaboration with Kim Asendorf, known for his Pixel Sorting script. Processed through code, unique variations of the original twins portraits by Justin Aversano become their own glitched alter ego before our eyes.

To view the full resolution artwork, just go to the following link and replace {TOKEN_ID} with the number of your piece.

`https://quantum.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmaYZdNv7WbxmGdkYE1Pdr4cM9mKBbYJoiNCDQXpzcH7ya/?token={TOKEN_ID}`

Doppelgänger #605

Doppelgänger #193

Doppelgänger by Justin Aversano & Kim Asendorf

On-chain software, real-time animation, variable dimension. Kim Asendorf, 2026.

45DF is a real-time animation utilizing GLSL shaders for pixel manipulation. It processes an encoded pixel font as its primary input, dynamically generating a complex typographic layout. The font‘s structure serves as the foundation for intricate graphical compositions, continuously evolving through algorithmic transformations.

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45DF

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PXL POD is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL POD is the second artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet. Kim Asendorf, 2026.

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PXL POD

“Black Square” and “White Square” by Kim Asendorf are two generative works on Ethereum Mainnet where opposing algorithms create perpetual transformation within the constraints of a single form. “Black Square” presents a black square on white ground, and “White Square” inverts this relationship: each existing in constant negotiation between preservation and dissolution.

Edition: Unique
Medium: Real-time animation, WebGL2/JavaScript, no external dependencies
Code size: 11.5 KB
Storage: Fully on-chain
Blockchain: Ethereum Mainnet
Token Standard: ERC-721
Contract address: 0x6D38705aD8AF087D86EF505618B77B066EAd2006

This series strips generative art to its most elemental: the pixel as square, the square as both constraint and fundamental unit. Through algorithmic tension, one force maintains form while another tears at its boundaries without ever reaching stasis. These companion pieces propose a system, where duality itself becomes the artistic inquiry: two works that refuse to be one, yet cannot exist without their inverse.

“Black Square” and “White Square” are available for auction as unique 1/1s, each with a reserve price of 1.0 ETH. The auctions start with the first bid and will run for 7 days.

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