The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Cactoid Labs present Remembrance of Things Future, an initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists Monica Rizzolli, Ix Shells, Jen Stark, Emily Xie and Sarah Zucker to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. Utilizing tools such as generative code, dynamic software and video synthesizers, the artists created unique works that engage histories across various eras. The digital editions will be released on the blockchain in phases beginning March 2023. Following the museum's long tradition of collaborating with artists to create limited editions, a percentage of the proceeds from these new digital editions will support LACMA's Art + Technology Lab.

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2 answers is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum"s collection. Building on the museum"s ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum"s holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
In the delicate dance of balanced counterpoints, each must rely on and incorporate the other. 
How cold is self-sovereignty without the warmth of collective care? How weak is collective care without the strength of self-sovereignty? Neither answer is correct without the other. Everything is both. -Sarah Zucker 
 Signature VideoPainting by Sarah Zucker/ @thesarahshow. 2023. Created in studio with 1991 Sony Video Painter, digital animation and analog processing on VHS. Digitally transferred in 1080p. 
Edition of 100. Inspired by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner"s Two Dancers, at LACMA.

2 answers by Sarah Zucker #10/100

A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum"s encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum"s ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum"s holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
I was inspired by the series A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls by Katsushika Hokusai in the collection of LACMA. To create my series I isolated Hokusai"s primary compositional elements and sought to understand their interactions. Using JavaScript and p5.js, these elements became the basis for my work. I selected one of the outputs from my algorithm for my first edition with LACMA. That output represents one of the nearly infinite possible outcomes that my code is capable of generating.Monica Rizzolli 
Edition of 100

A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls by Monica Rizzolli #11/100

Ahead of Time is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum"s encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum"s ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum"s holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
I was inspired by an early photograph of a botanical image from 1851 in the collection of LACMA. In my own practice, I have a strong dialogue between nature and its juxtaposition to the inorganic digital realm where my creations live.  Within the structures that underpin my work Ahead of Time you will see the resonances of the botanical branch featured in the historic photograph. -Ix Shells 
Edition of 100

Ahead of Time by Ix Shells #11/100

Muted Refraction is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum"s encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum"s ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum"s holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
This piece is a reflection on the vibrational geometry found within the quilt, Log Cabin, Barnraising Variation, in the LACMA collection. I studied fibers in college and I have always loved the meditative quality of such a process-oriented medium having grown up around the hand-sewn quilts of my great-grandmother. I wanted to create a meditative piece that harnessed the trancelike experience of encountering these hypnotic patterns, extracting and enhancing the impact of color and line. -Jen Stark 
Edition of 100

Muted Refraction by Jen Stark #11/100

Generative Patchwork and Bullseye is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum"s encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum"s ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum"s holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
This work was inspired by the Bullseye quilt from 1896 by Martha Lou Jones in the LACMA Collection. I was fascinated by how the overriding rigid geometry of the piece was challenged by its hand-made, imperfect feel. I loved how the colors of the rings look randomized yet cohesive. This inherent tension in quilting between the human and the computational represents so much of what generative art is all about. -Emily Xie  
Edition of 100

Generative Patchwork and Bullseye by Emily Xie #11/100

2 answers by Sarah Zucker #11/100

A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
I was inspired by the series A Tour of Japanese Waterfalls by Katsushika Hokusai in the collection of LACMA. To create my series I isolated Hokusai's primary compositional elements and sought to understand their interactions. Using JavaScript and p5.js, these elements became the basis for my work. I selected one of the outputs from my algorithm for my first edition with LACMA. That output represents one of the nearly infinite possible outcomes that my code is capable of generating.Monica Rizzolli 
Edition of 100

A Tour of Hypothetical Waterfalls by Monica Rizzolli #12/100

Ahead of Time is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
I was inspired by an early photograph of a botanical image from 1851 in the collection of LACMA. In my own practice, I have a strong dialogue between nature and its juxtaposition to the inorganic digital realm where my creations live.  Within the structures that underpin my work Ahead of Time you will see the resonances of the botanical branch featured in the historic photograph. -Ix Shells 
Edition of 100

Ahead of Time by Ix Shells #12/100

Muted Refraction is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
This piece is a reflection on the vibrational geometry found within the quilt, Log Cabin, Barnraising Variation, in the LACMA collection. I studied fibers in college and I have always loved the meditative quality of such a process-oriented medium having grown up around the hand-sewn quilts of my great-grandmother. I wanted to create a meditative piece that harnessed the trancelike experience of encountering these hypnotic patterns, extracting and enhancing the impact of color and line. -Jen Stark 
Edition of 100

Muted Refraction by Jen Stark #12/100

Generative Patchwork and Bullseye is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's encyclopedic collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
This work was inspired by the Bullseye quilt from 1896 by Martha Lou Jones in the LACMA Collection. I was fascinated by how the overriding rigid geometry of the piece was challenged by its hand-made, imperfect feel. I loved how the colors of the rings look randomized yet cohesive. This inherent tension in quilting between the human and the computational represents so much of what generative art is all about. -Emily Xie  
Edition of 100

Generative Patchwork and Bullseye by Emily Xie #12/100

2 answers is part of Remembrance of Things Future, a LACMA and Cactoid Labs initiative that engages artists working on the blockchain to reimagine the museum's collection. Building on the museum's ongoing experimentations with art and technology, LACMA and Cactoid Labs invited pioneering digital artists to select objects from the museum's holdings and create new digital editions inspired by a diverse selection of artworks. 
In the delicate dance of balanced counterpoints, each must rely on and incorporate the other. 
How cold is self-sovereignty without the warmth of collective care? How weak is collective care without the strength of self-sovereignty? Neither answer is correct without the other. Everything is both. -Sarah Zucker 
 Signature VideoPainting by Sarah Zucker/ @thesarahshow. 2023. Created in studio with 1991 Sony Video Painter, digital animation and analog processing on VHS. Digitally transferred in 1080p. 
Edition of 100. Inspired by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Two Dancers, at LACMA.