The Weekly Roundup #57
Looking at upcoming projects minting this week.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. We are here with the next iteration of the Weekly Roundup. There is a lot of stuff coming out this week. Verse has the All at Once exhibit opening tomorrow with a lot of cool projects. I can’t cover them all due to time constraints today, but I will have a link to the page that shows all of them. They are worth checking out. There are a couple really nice ongoing projects to check out as well from two amazing artists.
Lets dive in.
Presented on Highlight
Ongoing Mint - 1642 Minted with 69 days left.
Price: Free +0.0008 ETH Mint Fee (50% to creator)
Emily has done a lot of typography style work in the past and she has a real knack for it. I feel like typography would be a hard genre to master, but I’m constantly impressed by her work. She has released works with Art Blocks, Bright Moments, Verse, and more. It’s cool to see her release a project like this for free. You can get full sets of numbers, letters, and punctuations if you mint certain numbers in one transaction. She posted some groups that spelled out names like this for Emily Xie. Very cool work.
Set mint quantity to 26 to receive every letter of the alphabet in the same color palette.
Or set the mint quantity to 10 for numbers, 14 for punctuation, or any increment of 50 for full sets of every character (including one of each letter, number, and punctuation mark) to make diptychs, triptychs, words, or phrases with your outputs.
Inspired by the rhythmic geometry of midcentury jazz album covers and vintage word games, ‘Character’ generates simple compositions featuring one glyph energetically repeated within minimal constraints.
Presented on Highlight
Ongoing Mint - 9 Minted out of 81 in the set. Open for 89 more days.
Price: 0.5 ETH
I’ve been a huge fan of Iskra’s work for a long time now. She has an amazing and unique style when it comes to her art. I’m often left thinking about her work after looking at it. Contemplating it’s meaning and how I feel about it and this drop is no different. The price is a bit high for me, but I hope it does well. It deserves to sell out. It’s a beautiful project.
BREEZE A is the essence. The light because of shadow. What we leave for others. That breeze we remember—the one we couldn't see before, but now we do.
This is an original work by Iskra Velitchkova, created for the Medseart exhibition in Menorca in June 2024. An edition of 81 pieces, curated by the artist. Made with p5js.
The last of the projects we talk about are all a part of the All at Once exhibit presented on Verse. It’s curated by GrailersDAO and Singular.Art. These are all on the bitcoin blockchain and have to do with sequencing and chronology. I’m only covering a few of them due to time constraints, but I recommend going to Verse and checking them all out. The All at Once Exhibit on Verse.
Blockchains are clocks. We think of Bitcoin and other blockchains as stores of value, but they cannot store value without first delineating time. An accurate and indisputable record of transactions functions as a replacement for the authority of a bank. Ordinals are a way to log the creation and ownership of artworks on Bitcoin that sits closer to the conceptual origins of blockchains–and their reliance on chronology–than other NFTs. Ordinals are small notes attached to the ceaseless production of Bitcoin transactions, the ordering of these inscriptions is absolute, indisputable, and as everlasting as the blockchain itself.
Art history has long been fixated on chronology, perhaps to a fault. Which development preceded another? Which artist did it first? Where did an idea begin? Inscribing artworks on a blockchain provides a clear provenance, but this certitude comes with a cost. Technology exists to solve problems, while art often creates them. The challenge is to make generative, unruly work in the context of technological solutionism. How can artists create interesting problems in a world obsessed with solving them? Artists often challenge convention, and in this exhibition they are invited to rethink chronology and time within ordinal sequencing. Time can be a subjective and dynamic material when artists work with the blockchain, a technology that has chronology at its core.
By Kevin Buist
Presented by GrailersDAO & Singular on Verse
Mints on Monday - 1 Piece up for Auction - Opens June 24 Duration: 2 days
I’ve checked this one out over the last few days and it changes visually depending on the current activity of the chain. This has some really cool visuals. I could see this in someone’s office on a big screen. This will be continually updated forever syncing in real time.
Entropy is a generative art piece created using Bitcoin blockchain data, visualizing the dynamism of the data, while reflecting on the intricate relationship between time and entropy in this chain. It showcases how visual entropy increases as Bitcoin block height grows. By employing noise and random partition patterns, it generates unpredictable visuals, demonstrating how complexity and disorder evolve over time.
This artwork uses real-time blockchain data, including block height, transaction count, total size, and average fee rate, to influence the visuals. This makes Entropy a direct reflection of Bitcoin's current state. The constantly changing visuals reflect the unpredictable and ever-evolving nature of the blockchain.
A little video I made of the process of it syncing with the current BTC block.
Presented by GrailersDAO & Singular on Verse
Mints on Monday - 1 Piece up for Auction - Opens June 24 Duration: 2 days
Maximum of 150 child inscriptions/variations
This project is very interesting. With bitcoin there are grand parent, parent, and child inscriptions (They keep going). When you mint this piece you will own a parent inscription. From there you can mint child inscriptions and create numerous pieces from this work all tied to the original. This is a really interesting concept, leaving complete control of the project to the final owner of the piece. Will they leave it unchanged or mint child inscriptions? Read the description below to get a better understanding of how it works.
Bootleg explores the idea of giving full ownership of an instruction set and giving the collector control of the distribution of the potential output space.
Bootleg is self-aware of context, meaning it will behave differently when viewed directly vs. loaded into a child inscription. When viewing the inscription directly it will render as a HTML page outlining the concept and intended scope of the work, recording the artist intent immutably as part of the algorithm. When the inscription is loaded into a child inscription through recursion it will behave as an algorithm to generate a specific output defined by the hash supplied in the child inscription. This gives the new owner of the inscription full control of distribution of the algo; they can choose to leave the inscription as is and keep it a purely conceptual artwork or decide to either curate or randomize hashes and generate an arbitrary amount of outputs from the algorithm. Because of the parent/child relation used in Ordinals for provenance, the collector can generate child inscriptions which become part of the full artist provenance tree.
The “Tijd” algorithm used in Bootleg is visually inspired by Partituur, a work by Ulises Carrión, displaying the units of time from the Gregorian calendar in an abstract form along a grid structure. This grid structure is constantly updating the relative values that decide where the time units are placed, whilst connecting different units of the same denomination. This creates both order and chaos in the work and helps the viewer understand and read the current time displayed within the piece.
The compression quality for this video is terrible for some reason. I tried to re-render, but it keeps looking somewhat blurry for me. I recommend checking these out on the website Here (Refresh to get a new iteration).
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