Burner by Crashblossom

“Crashblossom is pushing generative art beyond the obvious limits of current standardized platforms. It takes guts to self release projects without the support of a marketplace or a partner, but Crashblossom managed to do it all by himself, turning BURNER into the iconic, historical project it now is. The pieces react to the Ethereum gas prices and constantly change over time, evolving into ways we have yet no idea about.”

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Artist Name: Crashblossom

Artwork Title: Burner #141

Series Size: 255

Creation Date: September 2022

Genre: Dynamic, Generative Art

Platform: burner.is (artist-specific)

Blockchain: Ethereum

Link to the NFT: https://burner.is/presentation.php?t=0&local=1&id=141  

Description: BURNER is a dynamic cryptoart series that changes every block in response to live Ethereum gas price data. A total of 256 interconnected artworks dependent on the state of the blockchain. As Ethereum network usage increases due to increased transactions, a more forceful artwork develops. Gas price data is made from the competing desires, intentions and beliefs of millions of entities. Transactions on Ethereum create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, cyclically revealing unforeseen states. BURNER pictures this continuous decentralised process. The artwork is never finished, there's always a new variant. It’s common to fetishise technology and we can easily become hooked on the network systems we use. The Ethereum blockchain is influential on our lives and this artwork tries to reveal some of its underlying behaviour through abstraction. The image files in BURNER begin as pictures of true physical gas. They’re extruded into a third dimension, rotated and processed until they’re unrecognisable. These new forms interact differently with one another in each digital artwork. Every BURNER has a unique base image, unique seed and 60 million potential states. Rarer ‘dark’ and ‘bright' types can have over 1 billion states. Apart from the base image, the layers are shared communally between collectors, then mixed uniquely in each piece. Slower pieces have higher rarity. BURNER isn’t controlled by the artist, but by the Ethereum Virtual Machine and its users.

Links: 

• Essay on BURNER: https://burner.is/index.php?tab=2 

• BURNER page on Crashblossom’s Website: https://crashblossom.co/burner 

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