This is Part 2 of a N-part series, accompanying the website http://cryptoart.wtf
Part 0 (26th Feb): A short summary of the main article has been published in the online publication Flash Art under the title “Toward a New Ecology of Crypto Art: A Hybrid Manifesto”. I suggest this as a starting point.
Part 1: I present my motivations, findings, and my conclusions as a result of these findings.
Part 2 (this article): I present the underlying data and methodology that gave rise to these findings, along with more statistics. …
22.01.2021 More accurate (based on Gas) figures for NiftyGateway
23.01.2021 Anonymized all data. For verification purposes only, details available upon request
10.02.2021 Moved some footnotes (e.g. ETH2) to main body
26.02.2021 A much shorter summary of this article has been published in the online publication Flash Art under the title “Toward a New Ecology of Crypto Art: A Hybrid Manifesto”
01.03.2021 Added new section: Common Misconceptions
This post has attracted a lot of criticism for being too “one-sided”. This is absolutely true, it is intentionally so. The reason for this is that there are already hundreds of articles covering many…
Trigger Warning: This post mentions #FlatEarth #YoungEarth #Creationism and similar ‘theories’.
It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with religions and gods, and a lot of my work and writing is theological in a sense (or at times, related to the tensions between science and religion).
I’d like to share just one of the many reasons why I’m obsessed with religions. I’m sure in the future I’ll write about some of the others.
We are a fascinating species, with quite remarkable achievements. Even these words that I’m typing right now, are an archaic, ancient…
This is a quick brain dump that I can point to when needed (rather often).
Just one of the many reasons I’m not fond of the term Artificial Intelligence, is because it’s worded in such a way that it creates confusion between the research field, and a characteristic of being.
I’ll try to use Biology as an analogue. While this is not a one-to-one correspondence, I hope it will be useful.
Life (noun) / alive (adj.) — like intelligence (noun) / intelligent (adj.) — is a category invented by humans. Unlike intelligence, we have managed to formulate slightly more…
Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.
I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…
Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.
I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…
Part of a series of articles I’ll be posting over the next few days & weeks regarding thoughts from the past few years I’m only just getting round to writing about.
I believe many of the situations we face are generally of vastly complex nature and high dimensions, such that it is impossible for us to be able to see any situation in its entirety. All that we are able to perceive at any given time, is perhaps a tiny slice from a very specific perspective. And the best we can hope for, is to attempt to widen that slice…
(Ok, there’s no sex. That was clickbait).
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Ash: “That Frank is such an awful person…”
Bobby: “Yea totally. I heard he had X killed to eliminate competition!”.
Ash: “Oh wow, I’m not sure about that. I mean, he’s an awful guy but I don’t think he’s actually murdered anyone.”
Bobby: “Oh you like Frank do you!?”
Ash: “No! I hate him, I just don’t think he’s murdered anyone.”
Bobby: “Oh I see, you’re a Frank-apologist, you disgust me, get out of…
I’m presenting a new Virtual Reality work commissioned by STRP, called FIGHT. This is the transcript of my talk discussing the work and motivations behind it.
(re reading time, subtract 5 mins for references)
“Fight is a seminal piece, … one of the most compelling (and mind bending) pieces I’ve seen in VR. ”
— Robin McNicholas. Cofounder, Marshmallow Laser Feast
“oh dude... that’s fucked… ugh… AAAAAH… MOTHER FUCKER… oh shit… (the music is beautiful)”
— Golan Levin, Professor of Electronic Art.
Director, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
Carnegie Mellon University
computational ar̹͒ti͙̕s̼͒t engineer curious philomath; nature ∩ science ∩ tech ∩ ritual; spirituality ∩ arithmetic; PhD AI×expressive human-machine interaction;