Why John Gerrard Is Generating Hourly Ethereum NFT Art for a Full Year
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On Tuesday, digital art purveyor Feral File will debut “Crystalline Work,” a new generative, on-chain series from the Irish contemporary artist John Gerrard that will algorithmically produce new pieces every hour for the next year. The series, set to become the longest-running on-chain performance art project ever attempted, returns Gerrard to familiar territory: environmental activism. In “Crystalline Work,” a robot stationed at a digital, barren version of the North Pole performs an algorithm inspired by ice formations to create intricate designs made of crystal bar lattices. The series also utilizes another Gerrard favorite, the WebGL browser API, to bring the hourly act of each piece’s creation to vivid life with immersive, interactive 3D graphics. Every hour beginning tomorrow, for the next 8,760 hours, the robot will generate a new design and mint it into an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. Each NFT will cost $100 worth of ETH, with a quarter of proceeds from the sale going to Hometree, a rainforest restoration project in Ireland. A sample output of “Crystalline Work.” Courtesy: John Gerrard, Feral File In other ways, however, “Crystalline Work” marks a clear departure for Gerrard from his existing body of work. In past projects like “World Flag” and “Western Flag,” the artist struck a decisively dire tone in warning about the failure of existing systems—nationalist, or capitalist—to address climate change. Now, Gerrard said he’s putting that sort of criticism behind him. “I don’t want to be involved in art that observes the world anymore, that comments upon the world,” the artist told Decrypt. “I’m not interested.” One of Gerrard’s previous works, “Burning Flag,” on display at Sphere in Las Vegas during a U2 concert. Courtesy: Stufish Entertainment Architects Instead, with his latest project, Gerrard seeks to put forth a positive vision of humanity’s potential to create: a…
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