The disappearance of the current moment is a common experience. Its replacement with a moment yet-to-arrive is now anticipated. People fetishise digital images and networked markets, which in turn keep us hooked.

BURNER dynamically reacts to people’s activity on the blockchain. It harnesses network processes to create a relentless stream of visual complexity and adrenalin.

All 256 pieces are interconnected and all are dependent on the live state of Ethereum. As network usage increases, increasing gas prices as a result, a more forceful and stimulating artwork develops. 

Ethereum gas prices are made from the competing desires, intentions and beliefs of millions of people. Digital transactions create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, continuously revealing fresh states. Likewise BURNER is never finished, there's always a new variant.

Taking found imagery of real gas and digitally processing it to the point where the original forms break down, BURNER pictures an unending network process which escapes our comprehension. 
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‘Every block is an update of information.
A database forever expanding and reacting
in coordination to things happening inside
and outside of [the Ethereum Virtual Machine].
The more we ask it things, the more it amasses
information on us. Does it understand us? Can it
speak back? We look at it, but does it look back
at us?  Does it shape us as we shape it?’


Loucas Braconnier
Essay on BURNER