jjoy

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

Art on Ethereum #1
May 15 @ 4PM UTC (12PM EST)

How the Ethereum World Computer can become civilization’s most important Art city with @0x113d, artist and co-creator of @mathcastles

Set a reminder👇
https://t.co/hxMoqn4z8C

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Happy 1 Year Anniversary to
@Mathcastles PROJECT 2 aka AM1

It goes

Terraforms <>
Zero Suite (ZG🌻, Angelus) <>
AM1

[ChrisF @ChrisF_0x]

Ep 21 of @net__society is now live with special guest @0x113d wherever you consume streaming internet content.

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Ethereum enables programs that can be run without a 3rd party company intermediating

By using swap & market contracts that are immutable, audited, and verifiably open source..

You can safely buy & sell Terraforms with no fees to auction houses or services, and 0% royalties to @Mathcastles

[jjoy @0xjjoy]

@0x113d hehehehehe

[TDR™ Bingo® @TDR_Bingo]

TD(R)unes is a collaboration with @mathcastles. Six sets of 26 letterforms improvised from un-gridded variations on a bespoke set of elements as an exercise in form and negative space…

[Luke Weaver @lukeweaver_eth]

@mathcastles community Think Tank Recordings🧵

[Fingerprints @FingerprintsDAO]

Continuing the Terraforms by @mathcastles inspirations/lore series: while the Mecha zone was not truly inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion, as @0x113d once put it when asked, "I think this is a retroactive yes".

H/t @remnynt

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Giving a 20 minute chaos talk at today’s Modular Summit at 11:40est

After NFTs: Network Art & the Third Era

For decades the internet has been the most important Art City, despite incumbent trad institution ostrichcore molasses & neglect. These vessels (not fit to surf computation’s civilizational dissolve) betray the theoretical weight of what their brands are meant to represent, and what their role could be when in the golden flight of their history and promise. However,

now, a Computing Artist finally has a proper city, surface, and site for serious career. One can fully route around the 20th century art bureaucracies should one need or choose. An Artist can be the puck, wait for the rest of the world to inevitably arrive, and have a promising chance at making an alright living in the process

We have decentralish networks that express tradable value, via credibly long-term runtimes for programs. Thus a site for drastically new kinds of Artworks and Art Worlds

As of recently, Our graphing calculator cultural settlement layer is fruiting with vast art supplies for new classes of verifiable programs <-> cryptoeconomic patterns. What alien Ways of Seeing can this era of Network Art enact unto the human psyche? How many Impressionisms are just sitting there for the taking? Could they ricochet into a capital R Renaissance? If Art History gets genuinely ripped open again, could it be a grand salve for the 2020s blight of Gamestop despair nihilism & the bellcurve meme cynicism funeral dirge marching order? As suites of ZK gadgets get staged to restructure identity and how humans pronounce-conceive of themselves… what is the duty of the archetype of Artist? What were NFTs, and do the glimmers of art & cryptocurrency before them give hint to their aftermath? What are society’s most pressing questions as biology and computation accelerate in intersection, and how might this relate to the above? Join for 20 dense chaotic minutes of improvisational thinking around these topics

[Fingerprints @FingerprintsDAO]

Terraforms by @mathcastles inspirations: more overt than the majority of zone inspirations yet not often mentioned, the Everglades zone (which accounts for .86% of parcels), was inspired by, well, the Florida Everglades.

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2021 Mathcastles nightstream enthusiasts know

[Mathcastles @mathcastles]

"I’ve lurked in the Terraforms Discord for years. I can’t lie, it’s one of the smartest and most sincere online groups I’ve ever seen, filled with onchain builders and creatives par excellence constantly sharing their works and thoughts" @WPeaster for @bankless

[Jussa @lonhig]

mfw

[Mathcastles @mathcastles]

Congratulations to the new collector of this very rare Alto Level 20

One of only 16, located on the absolute highest level in the piece

Appears to be the first Level 20 to change hands since February 1st 2022
https://t.co/86C5c2pX7n

[jordanmmck @jordanmmck]

I'm working on a mega Ethereum diagram which will attempt to capture "all" the major components of the system, including PoS, 4844, the beacon state/chain, EVM, 1559 gas mechanisms, etc.

This diagram here is NOT that diagram, but just an early draft I figured I would share. 🌞

[jwpe @0xjwpe]

The timeline seems to have forgotten how epic Terraforms are.

So I'm gonna share some of my favourite parcels.

I know what @mathcastles has created isn't about the aesthetics at all and the work goes much deeper, but lemme cook and share some I like visually.

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Tomorrow !

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If you love and believe in Ethereum, you'd probably like Terraforms

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If you've had an eye on Terraforms but never deep dived or collected, seems like a reasonable moment to give it a look. See if you find the work and its surrounding scene & values genuinely compelling

The work stands for things that you might appreciate and be aligned on

To start, there are few pieces here that express longevity as strongly as Terraforms

Certainly at a formal-technical level where even still the piece has few peers

Then, deeply in its artistic & conceptual concerns

A composition responding to a culture of infinite vaporous placeholders & obsolete-before-launch marketing flash grenade candy. A not ironic, not cynical, not dystopian response. An Art Question. About context obsolescence and the future. Expressed in a program as artwork, for World Computer. Aka a medium people have barely even noticed yet

Aspiration to lighthouse or alarm clock amidst the pvp moshpit of siren shipwreck nihilism devotees

Functionally as competitive differentiation even, and there exists an underserved market, audience, and collectorbase. I know because I'm in it

But most important: longevity shows up in Terraforms through the values of its culture and collectors

The multi-year social reality it has grown is a solid base for a kind of new voice in crypto and art. This is not an accident, and slowly, quietly starting to manifest

It's surprising to me but the piece is still quite misunderstood by many high profile figures here

I think some maybe haven't even heard of it. Many still know very little about it. I've seen figures regarded as experts voice things that show they've effectively never encountered it

This is okay by the way, no one should feel embarrassed. The piece is an iceberg. That said, it doesn't expect confrontation with its depths

The surface was always meant to be standalone and an invitation to an optional rabbit hole. And that continues to work. Plus, it's fun to have a bit of a "best kept secret" feeling persist over long periods and generations of new collectors

At the same time as all this, allow a bold sentence:

Terraforms is a core artwork on Ethereum

Consider that this is only partially a claim from me directly

I personally experience this as pronounced by our diehard longterm collectorbase. I live in and fuel the reality they've generously established around the piece. It's a kind of feedback loop. Art is Other People

Every artist should be so blessed to know this feeling at least once. Then, for a career, to learn to nurture it with their practice, and seek to honor what people are offering them through it. It's a tremendous experience, especially for one seeking excellence truly worthy of the archetype Artist

While I'm here.. part of why I'm posting.. the piece's context is likely to shift this year, as we've entered a new era in crypto these last few months. Not that art culture here has noticed yet

Bitcoin -> Ethereum -> ........whatever this will be called

I believe my next piece has a pretty good shot at deepening all of this like dominoes. I've been working very hard for the last few years to set the stage to try in any case, the work will of course do whatever the work does. That said I'm unbelievably excited to make this next piece regardless of how it goes or how it is received, which tells me I'm on the right track

Terraforms recent upgrade set some stage for this as well, though I've been quiet and not eager to reveal too much. I've wanted time and room to explore this frontier with little competition.

I spent the last few years deep in studies of this next era's technical trenches. By my personal values for myself, this is almost a duty of one seeking this role "Artist"

One ought truly study a medium's unique affordances, develop muscles in them, and seek to invent-discover new kinds of work in their new contexts. Perhaps developing new virtuosities or pronouncing the very terms of such. And/or cutting open radical new Ways of Seeing. For, aspirationally, toward making a kind of contribution, or having real speech act worthy of Art History

I've been adapting my entire practice and thinking for this new era, and have invented several patterns that are finally starting to bloom new pieces

So this is to say, it could be a good time to revisit Terraforms and collect if you find the piece of personal interest. I might tweet a few more of these over the next few weeks, as an invitation to some cultures who I think could appreciate the piece and perhaps haven't met it yet

I'm more than happy to chat in DM or hop on voice calls for anyone who is interested to learn more, or even give stream tours of the piece and its depths. Don't be shy, would be nice to make new friends and connect

To everyone else reading this who has supported me or Mathcastles, or shown enthusiasm for Terraforms, thank you so much. I will continue to work to honor what you offer me, with my fullest capacity