CENTURY-XXX-METARILEY #59: Grey and white discs form an undulating pattern on black.

01 / 03Grey and white discs form an undulating pattern on black.

Digital work

CENTURY-XXX-METARILEY #59

2022

Medium: Generative software artwork
Materials & process: Custom browser software; Tezos FA2 token.
Dimensions: Variable digital display; square original preview.
Edition: Unique output #59 in a series of 1,000.

CENTURY-XXX-METARILEY is Reas’s software sketch in dialogue with Bridget Riley's art.

This is the fourth work in CENTURY-XXX, Series 1, issued through fxhash in 2022. Here the relationship between repeated forms and perceptual movement becomes a live computational event.

Provenance

Released in 2022. Unique output #59 in a series of 1,000.

References

Casey Reas, CENTURY: series and historical references.

Casey Reas, NFT inventory: release dates and series sizes.

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