BURNER harnesses network processes to create a never-ending stream of changing states. The artworks react dynamically to people’s activity on the blockchain. As blockchain usage and ‘gas’ increases, the 256 live artworks become more forceful. The images are sourced from pictures of real physical gas, which are digitally extruded and processed until their opaque form breaks down even further. The imagery then becomes dependent on its network relations. BURNER pictures a relentless, perpetual network process which escapes 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
On BURNER
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
On BURNER
Medium Processed images of gas, live Ethereum gas readings, dynamic code