RHEA MYERS
Rhea Myers is an artist, hacker and writer originally from the UK now based in British Columbia, Canada. Her work places technology and culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us.
Rhea Myers is an artist, hacker and writer originally from the UK now based in British Columbia, Canada. Her work places technology and culture in mutual interrogation to produce new ways of seeing the world as it unfolds around us.
SOLD OUT
First Halvening (Bitcoin Block Header, 8 Bit Palette, Squares), 2018
Signed in pencil on front
Unique Giclee Print
Size: 101 x 101 cm
NFT - SOLD OUT
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
Description:
“Blockchain Aesthetics” transforms the data of the Bitcoin blockchain into the visual language of modernist abstraction and its critical postmodern appropriation. This makes the unseen structure of a technology born of contemporary libertarian utopianism visible using the aesthetics of historical political utopianism. The resulting live images and prints make strange forms of landscape or history painting out of the ongoing activity of the Bitcoin ledger.
The unfamiliar form of Bitcoin transaction hashes - the mix of 64 numbers and letters produced each time a transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network - is rendered in familiar forms in rational grids that cannot quite impose order on the resulting flood of shape and colour. This creative mis-reading decrypts encoded flows of value into something more perceptible, making their rhythms, complexity and volume available to contemplation on these matters and others.
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First Halvening (Bitcoin Block Hash, 8 Bit Palette, Spots), 2018
Signed in pencil on front
Unique Giclee Print
Size: 40" x 40"
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
NFT - AVAILABLE and can be purchased separately (please contact: info@katevassgalerie.com): https://foundation.app/@rheaplex/foundation/96671
Description:
“Blockchain Aesthetics” transforms the data of the Bitcoin blockchain into the visual language of modernist abstraction and its critical postmodern appropriation. This makes the unseen structure of a technology born of contemporary libertarian utopianism visible using the aesthetics of historical political utopianism. The resulting live images and prints make strange forms of landscape or history painting out of the ongoing activity of the Bitcoin ledger.
The unfamiliar form of Bitcoin transaction hashes - the mix of 64 numbers and letters produced each time a transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network - is rendered in familiar forms in rational grids that cannot quite impose order on the resulting flood of shape and colour. This creative mis-reading decrypts encoded flows of value into something more perceptible, making their rhythms, complexity and volume available to contemplation on these matters and others.
SOLD OUT
First Transaction (Bitcoin Transaction Hash, 8 Bit Palette, Spots), 2018
Signed in pencil on front
Unique Giclee Print
Size: 101 x 101 cm
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
NFT - AVAILABLE and can be purchased separately (please contact: info@katevassgalerie.com): https://foundation.app/@rheaplex/foundation/96680
Description:
“Blockchain Aesthetics” transforms the data of the Bitcoin blockchain into the visual language of modernist abstraction and its critical postmodern appropriation. This makes the unseen structure of a technology born of contemporary libertarian utopianism visible using the aesthetics of historical political utopianism. The resulting live images and prints make strange forms of landscape or history painting out of the ongoing activity of the Bitcoin ledger.
The unfamiliar form of Bitcoin transaction hashes - the mix of 64 numbers and letters produced each time a transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network - is rendered in familiar forms in rational grids that cannot quite impose order on the resulting flood of shape and colour. This creative mis-reading decrypts encoded flows of value into something more perceptible, making their rhythms, complexity and volume available to contemplation on these matters and others.
SOLD OUT
First Transaction (Bitcoin Raw Transaction, 8 Bit Palette, Squares), 2018
Signed in pencil on front
Unique Giclee Print
101 x 101 cm
NFT - SOLD OUT
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
Description:
“Blockchain Aesthetics” transforms the data of the Bitcoin blockchain into the visual language of modernist abstraction and its critical postmodern appropriation. This makes the unseen structure of a technology born of contemporary libertarian utopianism visible using the aesthetics of historical political utopianism. The resulting live images and prints make strange forms of landscape or history painting out of the ongoing activity of the Bitcoin ledger.
The unfamiliar form of Bitcoin transaction hashes - the mix of 64 numbers and letters produced each time a transaction is broadcast to the Bitcoin network - is rendered in familiar forms in rational grids that cannot quite impose order on the resulting flood of shape and colour. This creative mis-reading decrypts encoded flows of value into something more perceptible, making their rhythms, complexity and volume available to contemplation on these matters and others.