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Artist: ismahelio
Year: 2022
Medium: Generative Art
Dimensions: n/a
Category: Generative Art
🧠 DESCRIPTION
The first blueprint was found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. It has been studied several times. Numerous theories arose trying to explain its origin. None of them was decided conclusively.
One year ago, a rare group of waves coming from space was intercepted on earth. This happened during the 2021 summer. It was unclear if they were born from natural events. Dying stars, black holes... Humans tried to find patterns. Find a meaning for them. None of the analyses made any sense.
Bai was a young physicist and Ph.D. student. Her mother was a civil engineer working in finance. Her father was an architect and a generative artist. She had a personal interest in linguistics and algorithmic art, influenced by her father. She was the one who managed to decrypt the information using her own algorithms.
Those frequencies were the gate to sets of technical drawings, matching precisely the physical blueprint found in 1947.
It's been a year since the waves were discovered. No definite conclusions have been made yet regarding their origin or their meaning. Nevertheless, the number of theories keeps increasing with every new blueprint decrypted.
The frequencies keep passing by the earth. There is still so much investigation to be carried out. So many questions to be answered. Yet, the financial crisis is making the budget for investigation decrease rapidly. The Institute of Space Sciences is running an initiative to self-fund this project. Three hundred thirteen open spots can then seize those waves. Encapsulating them as NFTs.
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This project is an attempt to experiment with two main ideas arising from technical plans:
- The inner beauty of architectural plans, city plans, industrial blueprints, and any other type of documents of that nature. A study of graphic elements like annotations, dashed lines, grids, etc. disposed of in different manners to create aesthetically appealing compositions.
- How does the viewer analyze and interpret abstract compositions of technical plans? Triggering different thoughts and ideas: A Rorschach test with blueprints instead of ink blots.
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Digital artwork (NFT) — https://objkt.com/tokens/fxhash/1056636