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'Circularity' Series

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‘Circularity’ - NFTs that burn & re-mint themselves ⭕🔥

 

Collection of 12 artworks that challenge the standards of: Ownership, Burning and Minting mechanics. Investigating the Human-Algorithm collaboration by using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and smart contracts as an artistic medium.

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Each NFT only exists for the duration of the month it is linked to and gets burned on the last day of that month. However, every NFT re-appears (re-mints itself) on the 1st day of the same month, next year. ♻

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Artworks have 1 month of (on-chain) existence and are burnt for the remaining 11 months of that year. Once an artwork is burned the next month NFT gets re-minted, so there is always a market supply of only 1 unique NFT. 

Contrasting the culture of rapid NFT trading, these artworks can be seen as “Slow NFTs" ⏳

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Exploring concepts such as:

  • 🎇 Temporality in our physical & digital world

  • ⛓ Blockchain-based timestamping and code as a medium

  • 🔁 Cyclical nature of life: Creation/Destruction, Seasons, Life/Death/Re-birth, Past/Present/Future… 

  • 🤖 What is the role of creativity in a world of infinite AI generated content and the importance of human narrative, expertise and vision

  • ⏳ Turning NFTs into a time-based public performance artwork

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Read the full thread about the concept here <

Or watch the video explanation bellow:

 

'Circularity' Artworks:
(>Link to Marketplace<)

The second part of the series:
'Burn Ceremony'
(>Link to 'CBC' Marketplace<)

‘Circularity’ is an infinite loop as long the burn is triggered - this triggering is called the ‘Burn Ceremony’. Last 24h of every month, anyone is invited to contribute by triggering the burn, there is also an ETH bounty to incentivize bots.

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Once the burn transaction has been triggered, a new NFT, for that month, is minted into a sub-series called: ‘Circularity Burn Ceremony’ (or ‘CBC’ for short)

 

This means ‘Circularity’ is made up of two connected collections:

  • 1st is the ‘Circularity’ collection - with 12 main NFTs

  • 2nd is the ‘Burn Ceremony’ - this collection has no supply limit, it slowly increases whenever the monthly burn is triggered

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Contrasting scarcity and abundance (Rare vs Meme)

Each ‘Burn Ceremony’ NFT is a 24sec video of that month’s artwork slowly fading for 12sec and re-emerging for 12sec. This could also be seen as a celebration of the passing of time or a ‘restoration ceremony’ that marks a new beginning...✨

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 'Circularity', Solo-Exhibition, Museum of Crypto Art (MOCA)

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