'CIRCULARITY'
2022
Digital artworks that destroy & re-create themselves annually
A series of 12 self-renewing artworks, each tied to a month of the year.
Every piece exists only during its month, minted on the first day, burned on the last, and reappearing annually in the collector’s wallet.
Tradable only within that window, CIRCULARITY challenges the culture of rapid speculation and introduces the concept of “Slow NFTs”.
The series reflects on digital ownership, long-term autonomy and how smart contracts enable self-sustaining immutable programs that can operate for centuries without creator maintenance or intervention.
The Use of AI
Each artwork explores how AI envisions the months of the year. Using Stable Diffusion with each month as a prompt, hundreds of images were generated, curated, and digitally transformed by hand. This highlights the role of human perspective in an age of infinite AI creation, expressed through a time-based on-chain performance.
Mediums: Smart contracts, AI models, computational fluid dynamics, digital collage and painting. Blockchain: Ethereum
Exploring concepts such as:
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Temporality in our physical & digital world
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Smart contract immutability, resilience, and long-lasting infrastructure
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What do "autonomous" artworks look like?
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Cyclical nature of life: Creation/Destruction, Seasons, Life/Death/Re-birth, Past/Present/Future…
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Role of creativity in a world of infinite AI content and the role of human narrative, expertise, and vision
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Turning NFTs into a time-based on-chain public performance artwork
‘Circularity’ is an infinite loop as long the burn is triggered - this triggering is called the ‘Burn Ceremony’. Last 24h of every month, anyone is invited to contribute by triggering the burn, there is also an ETH bounty to incentivize bots.
Once the burn transaction has been triggered, a new NFT, for that month, is minted into a sub-series called: ‘Circularity Burn Ceremony’ (or ‘CBC’ for short)
This means ‘Circularity’ is made up of two connected collections:
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1st is the ‘Circularity’ collection - with 12 main NFTs
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2nd is the ‘Burn Ceremony’ - this collection has no supply limit, it slowly increases whenever the monthly burn is triggered
Contrasting scarcity and abundance (Rare vs Meme)
Each ‘Burn Ceremony’ NFT is a 24sec video of that month’s artwork slowly fading for 12sec and re-emerging for 12sec. This could also be seen as a celebration of the passing of time or a ‘restoration ceremony’ that marks a new beginning...
