BURNER is a dynamic blockchain art series by James Bloom that changes every block in response to live Ethereum network activity. A total of 256 interconnected artworks dependent on real time 'gas' prices. As Ethereum usage increases, a more forceful artwork develops.
Gas price data is made from millions of competing desires, intentions and beliefs. Transactions create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, cyclically revealing unforeseen states. BURNER pictures this continuous process of network relations. The artwork is never finished, there's always a new variant.
The image files in BURNER begin as pictures of real physical gas. These 2D images are extruded into a third dimension, rotated and processed until their opaque form breaks down even further. The imagery then becomes dependent on the artwork's own network relations.
Every BURNER has a unique base image, unique seed and 60 million potential states over time. Rarer ‘dark’ and ‘bright' types can have over 1 billion states. Apart from the unique base image, all other layer imagery is shared communally between collectors, but is mixed uniquely in each piece. Slower pieces are rare. The series can be considered a single networked piece viewed differently by each owner.
BURNER pictures a relentless, perpetual network process which escapes comprehension.
BURNER is a dynamic blockchain art series by James Bloom that changes every block in response to live Ethereum network activity. A total of 256 interconnected artworks dependent on real time 'gas' prices. As Ethereum usage increases, a more forceful artwork develops.
Gas price data is made from millions of competing desires, intentions and beliefs. Transactions create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, cyclically revealing unforeseen states. BURNER pictures this continuous process of network relations. The artwork is never finished, there's always a new variant.
The image files in BURNER begin as pictures of real physical gas. They’re extruded into a third dimension, rotated and processed until their opaque form breaks down even further. The imagery then becomes dependent on the artwork's own network relations.
Every BURNER has a unique base image, unique seed and 60 million potential states over time. Rarer ‘dark’ and ‘bright' types can have over 1 billion states. Apart from the unique base image, all other layer imagery is shared communally between collectors, but is mixed uniquely in each piece. Slower pieces are rare. The series can be considered a single networked piece viewed differently by each owner.
BURNER pictures a relentless, perpetual network process which escapes comprehension.
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