LARVA LABS: JOHN WATKINSON AND MATT HALL
Matt and John are ”creative technologists that have worked on almost every kind of software. Examples include large scale web infrastructure, genomics analysis software (John has a Ph.D. 🤓), 8-bit roleplaying games, an art project on the blockchain covered by the New York Times that Mashable said “could change how we think about digital art,” the largest open source repository of legal documents that we started at an overnight hackathon, an endless driving game that ends badly (there's a VR version too), an app for Android called AppChat that makes a chat room for every app installed on your phone, two different versions of a completely new Android homescreen experience: Slide Screen (2009!) and Flow Home (2014), a motion tracking dance booth on a beach in France, and an app with Google called Androidify that ended up becoming the worldwide face of the Android brand.
As a result of our work we've spoken at a wide range of venues including the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Art|Basel Miami, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, The NY Tech Meetup, and Christie's Auction House in London.
We've also been lucky enough to have long lasting client relationships with some of the best companies in the world like Google and Microsoft. We're very proud of the work we've done with them, some of which may even be on your phone right now.”
THE CRYPTOPUNKS
‘10,000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The project that inspired the modern CryptoArt movement. Selected press and appearances include Mashable, CNBC, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, The Paris Review, Salon, The Outline, BreakerMag, Christie's of London, Art|Basel, The PBS NewsHour, The New York Times in 2018 and again in 2021. The Cryptopunks are one of the earliest examples of a "Non-Fungible Token" on Ethereum, and were inspiration for the ERC-721 standard that powers most digital art and collectibles. The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. Via this market you can buy, bid on, and offer punks for sale. Below, you'll find information about the status of each Punk in the market. Punks with a blue background are not for sale and have no current bids. Punks with a red background are available for sale by their owner. Finally, punks with a purple background have an active bid on them.’
https://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks
AUTOGLYPHS
‘Autoglyphs are the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain. They are a completely self-contained mechanism for the creation and ownership of an artwork. Autoglyphs are an experiment in generative art, each one unique and created by code running on the Ethereum blockchain. The glyphs were created in 2019 by anyone willing to donate the creation fee of 0.2Ξ (around $35 at the time) to our chosen charity, 350.org. The creator of each glyph became the first owner of that glyph. After 512 glyphs were created, the generator shut itself off forever and the glyphs are only available on the secondary market. The idea of having the Blockchain dictate "instructions" for the works to be rendered was inspired by Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings. Along with the digital renderings you see, we use a CNC plotter to render our Autoglyphs in physical form. ‘https://larvalabs.com/autoglyphs
SOLD OUT
Autoglyph #77, 2019
The first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain
40 x 40 cm
Unique
Exhibited at “Automat und Mensch” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2019