Ries

“Ries”, 2022, installation consists of a black and white laser printer, 500 script generated printed cut-up artworks and concrete blocks. size variable.



Ries is 500 sheets of paper.
Ries is a cut-up text artwork.
Ries is a work of art generated by an algorithm based on random numbers.
Ries is a digital artwork installed in 5 forms in the exhibition space.
Ries is an NFT artwork.
The rise of NFT artworks was a trend that is divided opinion in the art world. Prices for NFT artworks had soared to absurd heights over the years 2021 and 2022, and the NFT space was and is rife with scams. The hope was that NFTs would have opened up new audiences and collectors for art and enabled artists to sell their art digitally. “Ries” was an experiment to do a meaningful installation and exhibition that utilized a blockchain based mechanism, and to open up a discussion, if the technology could provide something new to art.
For digital generative artworks, NFT allowed for an interesting interaction: the artist creates a system of rules and instructions for creating an artwork, and the act of buying the artwork actually creates it.
The exhibited edition of 500 iterations of the generative artwork “Ries” is generated by a computer script and algorithm. Markov’s Chain-Monte Carlo algorithm generates a repetitive, chopped-up text that is then variously laid into a visual artwork through a procedural process controlled by random numbers. The initial number for the random number generation is the transaction proof number of the sale of the artwork as an NFT.
The installation was made for my solo exhibition Walden Kunstaustellungen gallery in Berlin, and later shown also in the following media art exhibitions: Jättömaa in Finland, 2022 and Projio in Finland, 2022