There’s No Distance #49: Grey geometric planes and dense linear textures emerge against black.

01 / 02Grey geometric planes and dense linear textures emerge against black.

Digital work

There’s No Distance #49

2023

Medium: Generative software artwork
Materials & process: Custom browser software; Ethereum ERC-721 NFT.
Dimensions: Variable digital display; square original preview.
Edition: Unique output #49 in a series of 128.

Lines and pixels turn a simulation of cubes into an image poised between geometric depth and a patterned surface.

There’s No Distance belongs to the Still Life series. It uses simulated cubes as conceptual geometry, exploring how mathematical information becomes an experienced image. Output #49 specifies eleven cubes and a Night background.

The work was released through fxhash for Reas’s It Doesn’t Exist (In Any Other Form) exhibition at bitforms in 2023. Moving the cursor or a finger changes the image; other controls reveal its diagram, generate a new arrangement, pause or change the background.

Provenance

Released in 2023. Unique output #49 in a series of 128.

References

bitforms, It Doesn’t Exist (In Any Other Form), exhibition text.

Casey Reas, Atomism.

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