Art Blocks x Bright Moments

*923 Empty Rooms* is an artwork about simulation and the history of visual representation and abstraction. Each room is a space to explore.

Each of the 923 unique rooms contains a simulated still life, an arrangement of forms. There are six primary forms, each linked to a city: Sun (Tokyo), Shard (Berlin), Cargo (London), Hive (New York), Pyramid (CDMX), and Moon (Los Angeles). A series of rooms will be minted over the course of a simultaneous, six-day exhibition at galleries in each city.

There are 923 rooms in total to iterate through every possible combination of the six shapes:

1 form = 6 unique combinations
2 forms = 21 unique combinations
3 forms = 56 unique combinations
4 forms = 126 unique combinations
5 forms = 252 unique combinations
6 forms = 462 unique combinations

*923 Empty Rooms* is an evolution of *An Empty Room*, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 19521982 exhibition. *An Empty Room* was installed at LACMA from 9 April to 2 July 2023.

923 EMPTY ROOMS #118

Sequels

New York City, USA, 1964

A statue at an opening event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Sequels #56

Mlaga, Spain, 1966

A foot coming off the edge of a roof, which seems to be touching the top of another roof further away. Shot in Mlaga, Spain in 1966.

Sequels #47

Emblem Vault V2

GOXPEPE, the second card in the first series of the Rare Pepe card set.

Early dank rare celebrating the "In This Moment, I Am Euphoric" meme as Mark Karpeles sits in the courtroom realizing the destruction he had overseen at MtGox.



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Degenz Code gives you unlimited access to the Degenz Pro platform, as well as NFT drops by Degenz, Rug Radio Stubs and partners. 

Degenz Code

Degenz Code gives you unlimited access to the Degenz Pro platform, as well as NFT drops by Degenz, Stubs and partners. 

Forever Supper by Async

This is a free, soulbound Forever Supper Core. Collectors can customise their Cores by collecting Expansions on https://async.market. Claim your free Core here: https://async.market/dynamic-blueprints/63fe742c74e62000a8cf7bb8/async-forever-supper

Supper #115

HNFTFest is a non-profit initiative by The DADA Collective that brings together our diverse historical NFT community to celebrate the groundbreaking projects and people that make up the emerging story of non-fungible digital ownership.

The HNFTFest Collection may include several NFT projects aimed at deepening our understanding of the history of NFTs and the people that made them happen.

The HNFTFest Collection is debuting with The Past of The Future: Historic NFTs 2011-2019, an immersive VR experience of the retrospective of the same name held at the First HNFTFest in Barcelona.

HNFTFest Collection

The HNFTFest 2022 Memento is an immersive virtual recreation of the retrospective curated by Eleonora Brizi, featuring significant early artworks from 2011-2019. It was created to commemorate the first HNFTFest, which took place in Barcelona, Spain in October 2022.

The Past of the Future: Historic NFTs 2011-2019

The Meekicks Genesis Ticket

Meebits got the [sweetest kicks](https://www.meekicks.me). There are over 80 different pairs of Meebits shoes, accounting for type, color, and size. Every pair of Meekicks is uniquely tied to one of the 20,000 Meebits and has its own randomized Jump, Speed, and Dance levels. Own a Meebit? Claim your [Meekicks](https://www.meekicks.me):  Meekicks was created and funded by the MeebitsDAO.

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HeavenComputer

A ghost is seen roaming around the temple. Although the gender of ghosts may be ambiguous, this ghost radiates a feminine energy. She appears to be aiming and firing a gun, as her smooth skin casts a real gold color. Upon her presence, the temple's ambiance has turned into a shade reminiscent of that of a keel joy, and the sacred waters below have shifted into a big surf hue. The atmosphere feels dark and heavy, which could symbolize the unquietness that exists around you and your ghost. A shot in the dark is unwise, not to mention, it could backfire... bad.

The Shooter Real Gold Woman #2041

TinyBoxes

TinyBox 13 of 202 in Phase 4 TinyBoxes is to Autoglyphs as Avastars is to CryptoPunks. TinyBoxes are animated patterns of shapes and colors generated and rendered 100% on-chain. Innovative features of TinyBoxes include dynamic rendering settings, 24 animations, and 11 exclusive color schemes released in phases. 
Our contract has been designed as efficiently as possible, with a minting fee of just 260k gas. TinyBoxes gives back to its community; giving back 50% of gas spent as referral rewards, prizes and giveaways.

TinyBox #619

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Great Expectations

GE 4,794

Manifesto

Photography is a visual language that speaks directly to the heart and soul of humanity, transcending time and space. Through the lens of a camera, artists can capture the essence of a moment, preserving it for future generations. It's a universal medium that allows people from different cultures and backgrounds to connect through shared experiences and emotions, inspiring us to see the world in new ways and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us.

The Persistence of Memory #572

The art of photography is a medium that allows artists to capture the beauty and complexity of the world around us. It's a language that communicates emotions and ideas, transcending language and cultural barriers. By freezing moments in time, photographers create a record of our shared experiences, inspiring us to see the world in new ways and connect with others on a deeper level.

The Art of Time #571

Cargo by Kim Asendorf

**Cargo** is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.

ASDF: My work should offer individual ways of interpretation, or even allow one to find some self in it. It wants to inspire some thoughts about dynamics and systemics and also just mesmerize the audience, capture them in a little fantasy, or just for a brief moment in a state of satisfaction.

Cargo is the latest work in Kim Asendorfs ongoing work series of pixel pattern animations. Starting with [monogrid](https://monogrid.xyz) in 2021, and [Sabotage](https://sabotage.kim) in 2022, both highly conceptual series, therefore visually very raw and unimaginable. Asendorf discovered various interesting details in these works, which eventually became fundamental in his artistic expression.

Cargo is a real time WebGL software written in JavaScript and GLSL. At its core is a flip-flop render buffer, also known as feedback buffer. That means the animation is alternately rendered in two different frame buffers. This technique allows the usage of the previous frame of the animation as an asset in the current rendering, which allows for a series of reactive animation strategies.

An initial image with variable structures and patterns is rendered and subsequently loaded into the frame buffer. A fragment shader is used to apply a set of animation algorithms that make the pixel move and a set of reset algorithms that constantly try to recreate the initial image. The final animation happens in selected containers and is always a combination of two algorithms, one from each set. By regularly animating and partially resetting the pixels, a wide range of movement patterns appear.

Cargo is a responsive and pixel exact artwork and it will fill the screen on any display size, thus changing the total amount of used pixels accordingly. This results in the fact that the detail level in the artwork is changing depending on the dimensions. The overall structure is consistently stretching the x and y axis independently. Single containers scale along the dimensions and offer more pixels to render the patterns at a larger representation compared to a smaller representation. This behavior leads to a brilliance, perfect pixels, a crisp rendering with nothing like compression artifacts.

This software includes the [simplex noise](https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js) JavaScript implementation by Jonas Wagner and the [cellular noise](https://github.com/stegu/webgl-noise) GLSL code by Stefan Gustavson.

Cargo #110

Pre-Process by Casey REAS

Ways of knowing...
Ways of seeing

I can trace the origin of *Pre-Process* back to a Saturday afternoon in 2003 when I was sketchingfirst on paper, and then with code. I began by drawing circles, then connecting their center points, and then placing the circles in motion as coded animation. At that time, I was focused on *ideas* and not *images*specifically, on dynamic systems and the ways a set of elements relate to each other within an imagined environment. I was working through questions about how to experience these systems and what might be an ideal (or interesting) way to engage with them. 

The ideas and code from this session later became the core of much of my subsequent work: including the foundation for the *Process* series of software, prints, and installations and the more recent *Process Compendium* works. *Pre-Process* pulls these origin points back into focus, develops them with what Ive learned in the intervening years, and puts them on the blockchain to be archived. I consider the project a Rosetta Stone for my practice. It asks fundamental questions about the relationships between process and end result, including: Where is the aesthetic focus of a generative system? Is it deep within the code or within the picture the system creates?

Ultimately, *Pre-Process* emphasizes experiencing the origin of the system and then transitioning with it as it seeks, but never finds, equilibrium. The system is built around Element 1, the first that I created for the *Process* series:

*Element 1: Form 1 + Behavior 1 + Behavior 2 + Behavior 3 + Behavior 4
Form 1: Circle
Behavior 1: Move in a straight line
Behavior 2: Constrain to surface
Behavior 3: Change direction while touching another Element
Behavior 4: Move away from an overlapping Element*

*Pre-Process* is the origin of a long journey that Im still on. It continues to ask essential questions and to encourage me to explore possibilities. Through it, I came to realize that I was ultimately more a picture-maker than a conceptual artist, or, the way I like to think about it,  Im a conceptual artist with a small c. I want the energy to be with the system (the ideas) *and* the surface (the picture) in equal measure. More directly, the work exists *between* the instructions, the performance and interpretation of the instructions, and the resulting images.

Pre-Process #91

Filthy Fiat all around. Filthy fiat hits the ground. Filthy fiat in the sky. Filthy fiat will surely die.

The endless brrrrr of the money machine leads to more pain for those who do not understand the intrinsic value that lives in the decentralized world. From inside, take a look around and you too will see things as they are and what it all leads to. Mass produced and one time use the plastic of our worth, the filthy fiat, only gets dirtier with time.

Single frame snapshot taken from full version (10 seconds) animation. 300 frames total.

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