Ries installation

Welcome to the opening of my first solo exhibition that uses generative NFT art edition as a starting point for an installation in a gallery setting. The official opening is on Friday 8.7.2022 at 19:00 inĀ Walden Kunstaustellungen, Fulda Strasse 56, 12043 Berlin.

Link to the NFT edition:
https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/ries


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 is a trend that is dividing opinion in the art world. Prices for NFT artworks have soared to absurd heights over the past year, and the NFT space is rife with scams. At the same time, NFTs have opened up new audiences and collectors for art and enabled artists to sell their art digitally. For digital generative artworks, NFT allows 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. Since these proof or hash numbers are different by design, it is ensured that each of the 500 iterations are different to one another.

The artwork is designed to be printed with a black and white laser printer. These prints can then be assembled into a collage or exhibited individually.
“Ries” NFT will be released on the FxHash platform, which works with the Tezos cryptocurrency network. FxHash is an artist-run and managed platform that is growing rapidly. Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are synonymous with pollution and energy waste, but the Tezos network is one of the cleanest options*.

*The total annual carbon footprint of the Tezos blockchain is equivalent to the average energy footprint of 17 global citizens.

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