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THE TWELVE TICKLE TOKEN - Artist Edition > Victor Acevedo

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Description

This artwork acts as a token for a yearly subscription to The Tickle - 12 monthly issues of the pre-eminent magazine for contemporary digital art, creative writing and the history of computer art ( @inwarhol ). "Cricket Study" was created for issue #91 - March 2024. Each monthly issue is airdropped every month to holders of the token. Primary collection activates the subscription - secondary collectors adopt the existing subscription, receiving all remaining issues. -- Victor Acevedo created this study of crickets for an M.C. Escher inspired image in 1987. This version is ‘exactly’ the same as it was then except that parts of the insects were tinted greenish blue, by the artist in 2024. It has also been resampled up to 2160p to accommodate the higher resolution display devices that are available today. The image features clusters of stylized crickets arrayed in 3-fold rotational symmetry. To extrapolate beyond the usual yet classic Escher zoomorphic tessellation vantage point, this shows the repeating insects in 3-quarter view; reflecting the camera angle of their photographic source. Indicating a graphical environment; also appearing here, are spheres rendered in line, subdivided with great circles (geodesics). This was a nod to Acevedo’s other key art influence, R. Buckminster Fuller. Curious details are the red squiggly lines which accent the image with an expressive calligraphic element. Acevedo has said, “I seem to remember that the squiggly lines were an unintended rendering glitch that occurred while ‘writing’ the image to 35mm film. Decades later I thought they really worked well for the image.” This is in fact an image outake from the computer graphic session that produced Victor Acevedo’s well-known Ectoplasmic Kitchen Series, 1987. The series is discussed in Catherine Mason’s article on Acevedo for Tickle #91. Many image iterations from the series can be viewed online at the Expanded Art gallery. Technical info: Cricket Study was created with a software package called Artworks. This was a 2.5D Vector Graphics Software licensed by West End Film/Pansophic. 2.5D (Two and a half ‘D’, D=dimensions) means it supported mouse controlled, manipulation of on-picture-plane graphical objects within any polygon domain toward convergent perspectival vanishing points. However, the software’s computer graphic capabilities would not be classed as that of a full 3D modeling system. The original DOS-based image file was saved to a 5.25” floppy disk; usually written to a ‘Pansophic’ flavor of the PIC or Hex format. However, this NFT linked JPG file was produced from a high-resolution scan of a 35mm slide that was output via a 2K Matrix digital film recorder directly from the original computer file in 1987.