Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. We are here with the next iteration of the fx(hash): Weekly Roundup. It looks like we are getting back to a healthy amount of releases on the platform now. When 2.0 released it was a flood of projects and it’s nice to see it has slowed down some.
Lets dive in.
Dialog Box by Duane King, Scott Brewer, & Adam Moliski.
Mints on Tuesday - 2 sets of 256 pieces. -Interactive
Price: 8 Tezos or .008 ETH
This kind of project isn’t usually my thing, but it’s just so unique. Each piece is an interactive dialog box with two choices at a time. It’s a very minimalistic piece and a nice nod to the 80’s and 90’s aesthetic tech culture. It has viewers contemplate consequences of their decisions in a world increasingly mediated by technology. This project has a 1/1 minted on the layer 2 network Optimism. It also has a release page for ETH and Tezos when it goes live. Distributing the art across multiple chains. Duane wrote a nice Medium Article on the project.
Dialog Box is a playful generative art project that invites viewers to engage with the concept of choice in the digital age. Inspired by the early Mac OS, the artwork presents an interface of two buttons, each symbolizing a choice steeped in 80s and 90s pop culture, from the serious to the lighthearted.
Wholeness Mirage by Ivan Dianov
Mints on Friday - 64 pieces in the set. -On-Chain
Price: 0.15 -> 0.1 -> 0.08 -> 0.07 -> 0.06 ETH
Changes every 10 minutes.
This one caught my eye instantly. I love the blending of colors and shapes in these. Not really sure if you would consider this dot work, but it has that feel to it. If you zoom in you can see the dots interlocking to help form the larger shapes.
This work, created as a challenge over 168 hours, explores the illusion of perceiving objects in this world.
When I was a kid, my dad bought me a lab microscope. I looked through it at everything I could find: insects, specks of dust, protozoa in a drop of water, pieces of magazines. I found myself in a new world that had always been there but remained invisible.
This artwork has a fractal structure: large dots do not actually exist; the illusion arises from the superimposition of the same pattern of interconnected smaller dots layered on top of each other. However, these smaller dots are also illusory: a mere dance of colors of the pixels of a monitor or pigments on a canvas. These are just the first steps of immersing yourself in the infinite detail of reality.
Leaves (wip) by Max Zaubermann
These leaves are another wonderful minimalistic work. I love the subtle blending of colors and all the various shapes. With all the different outputs I’ve seen it seems to have a lot of depth to it for such a simple idea. I want to explore this one some more when it comes up for release.
Inspired by the simple beauty of autumn leaves: A play of form and color!
Yulyseus has only released a few projects on fxhash, but they have already developed a great style. I love their take on abstract work. They have two upcoming projects in January one minting in a few days.
They also have a project called Sacred Tapestries that is still minting. I love the outputs I’ve seen from this project and just wanted to highlight it as well.
'Sacred Tapestries' builds upon my fx(hash) genesis project 'Sublimations', taking its undulating pixel distortions and fragmenting, repeating and layering them to form bold, angular memories of the organic forms below.
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