Eccentrics 2: Orbits

In the month of November '22 I added every single piece I would get in the "Powered by Artblocks' Quest to this gallery.

Here are those pieces.

Mental Blocks

BY

@RICKACRANE

GALLERY by 16on

ZANCAN

A forest has stories to tell. About times that were, about times that will be.

This project is the long-form version of an algorithm that contains a bug. “The Bugged Tree”’s code was salvaged and stored and served as the core motivation and engine for an entire forest. Its concept is about releasing the control. I am a byproduct of evolution, an iteration of that specie who wanted utter control, and which at some point, lost control over its own creation. As a generative artist, I chose to welcome the event of chance into my creative process. The symbolism in chance made me feel humble and free. Unwilling to make any change to a story that the Tree needed to tell me, as a listener, rather than a writer of my own idealised fantasies.

A Bugged Forest

There are an almost infinite number of ways to wrap a string around a set of pegs. On the surface it may seem like a simple concept but prepare to be surprised and delighted at the variety of combinations the algorithm can produce. Each output from 'Ringers' is derived from a unique transaction hash and generated in Javascript in the browser. Feature variations include peg count, sizing, layout, wrap orientation, and a few colorful flourishes for good measure.

Ringers

by Dmitri Cherniak

Ringers #879

Known affectionately as the “goose ringer,” is a single NFT from Dmitri Cherniak’s groundbreaking generative project that sold for just short of $6 million in August 2021. The buyer was Three Arrows Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency investment firm.

Update: Sold at Sotheby's on June 16 for $5.4 million. The buyer was Museum 6529.

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