Chaos in Three Acts - Escape Room in Crypto Art

Yesterday's article was too difficult, so today I'm going to tell you a story in a rather sloppy way. Yesterday's long analysis of Ah Luan's works, I translated it into English and put it on Mirror (a web3 blogging platform), and then wrote a long thread on Twitter. Sure enough, the wisher took the bait and caught Kevin Abosch.

If you don't know Abosch, let me introduce it to you.

Abosch sold a photo of a potato on the blockchain for $1 million in 2016, and later stored his blood data on the chain in 2019, then issued coins, made public the private key, and let others steal (yes). , In the end, all I am a Tokens were stolen), the most famous series of works in recent years is to encrypt and superimpose various political declarations into ciphertext, print them out or issue NFT, which was exhibited in Taipei last year.

Abosch has always liked Aran very much. He has bought a lot of Aran's works in the past few days, and he can become the market maker of Aran. He has also been sharing Aran's works on Twitter. After he shared my long article today, he paid 1,600 Tezos for a series of Aran Chaos trilogy. The floor price of the Arran trilogy has reached 400 tez (0.44E), 500 tez (0.55E), 180 tez (0.2E), which is four or five times higher than the old work Good Vibrations, and the old work is still published in ether Fang's Artblocks platform, the new work is published on the fxhash of the Tezos chain known as the savior of the poor.... This made me determined to try my best to translate the article into English in the future.

This may be because Abosch and Aran may be creating works in the same way.

"Encrypted art" has been regarded as "the art market traded with cryptocurrencies" today, but "encrypted art" can also refer to works created in the form of encryption and decryption principles. "Encrypted art" is rare in the "encrypted art" market. The creative medium of "generative art" is inherently suitable for manipulating data, including encryption, sampling, and mixing. (Of course, what is generative art? There is more room for definition, but I won’t discuss the content in this article. I recommend Karsten Schmidt (Toxi)’s article on sourness, which is so sour and really enjoyable!)

This series of works by Aran is contrary to his normality as an open source creator. This time the source code is not fully disclosed, but it has also become a collector's escape room game. You can find the information that Aran wants to disclose from the "Currently Public Information".

Take Chaos Memory as an example, when you click on the code of each piece of art to find the hidden layer data (the hidden data is publicly hosted in the peer-to-peer storage system, the details are not repeated here, you have the ability to Find it by yourself, and then make a comment), it's just crawling into Ah Luan's brain and messing around.

You'll be surprised to find that there are Turner's watercolor paintings, images from the previous Chaos Research (Chaos Research), and even the pictures of Chaos Memory's work itself (plus the palindrome of the work's description, it should be a reference to the movie Tianneng (TENET). ) saluted). This is related to Aran's self-cultivation.

Before becoming a generative artist, he was an audio-visual artist; before the audio-visual artist, he was trained in visual communication to make symbol graffiti; before that, he graduated from Fuxing Art and volunteered to be a watercolor painter. Turner was the early stage of the chaos. role model.

This layer upon layer of life experience is consistent with the original data hidden in Chaos Memory. Turner's watercolor paintings were remade into bitmap files by Ahran. Bitmaps were taught by Mr. Wang Furui during the audio-visual art training. The technique used is for the primary purpose of keeping the content undistorted. And these bitmaps are used as the signal base and become the "foundation" of the unpredictable generative art.

Ultimately, this "foundation" is a dialogue process with the rapidly changing generative art world, albeit in a very subtle way. Aran may be secretly saying that generative art is filled with too many works produced by Perlin Noise. It's like a community, everyone wears jeans and buys jeans, but Ah Luan wants to cut a bunch of holes in the jeans and sell them on the market. Ah Luan's Youtube nickname is Noise Uncle. This time, Uncle Noise Rat used a new type of noise to throw on the market, and then said nothing.

And it's not open source, so I won't copy it for everyone.

(If you love to play like me, download the picture, and then zoom in and out of the Bitmap file, you will know what distortion means.)

The above is only the part of Chaos Memories in the second volume, and there is no mention of Chaos Research in the previous work and Chaos Culture in the new work. If you are intrigued by me, please go to my previous article, the interesting part is all finished.

Chaos Three Acts - Decoding Aran's Encryption, Sampling, and Calculation Mysteries

(Or do you want more trash talk XD)