Roehrs & Boetsch Advent Calendar 2020 – Door #6

The button has been in a continuous state of shapeshifting over the expanding history of collective interface design. Endless webpages filled with designs, haptics, styles, expressions, subcultures, interactions, effects, all layered over this simple and elemental entity leaving in its wake a fundamental material presence within interface culture.

The internet is an unimaginably vast ecology of data and processes. Deeply stored data is immutable like buried granite, where other is constantly in flux like a rushing mountain stream. The whole system is in continuous evolution through endless processes reshaping the data interacting with each other and with ourselves. At the opaque surface of this churning ocean of bits is the exchange between both the realm of the computer and that of ourselves. The interface. And in the centre of this human machine culture lives the button. A binary entity reaching out from the very core of the machine's logic to touch, at the surface, our reaching finger, after which it dives back down in order to toggle some state from a zero to a one.

Web is a network spawned in the dark, resting within a smart contract waiting to be explored. It is a performance of the Internet itself, a non-linear choreography of a thousand webpages. The pages are expressed as raw HTML structures, empty from content. Some feel vaguely familiar, as if we remember visiting them in the past, some come straight from the depth of the machine.

Web is not a utility, but an expression of the machine. Wandering it suggests a forsaken usage and navigability, but it is just an echo of information architecture crafted with the cold introvert yet careful handling of the machine, leaving you getting lost and walking in circles.

Web is a monument to the hyperlink, a poem dedicated to machine learning and a computer's dérive within itself.

Roehrs & Boetsch Advent Calendar 2020 – Door #3

Standard Deck 100.

Homage is a collection of 110 on-chain animations 🌹 project by Rafaël Rozendaal 2022 🌹 svg code by Reinier Feijen 🌹 smart contract by Alberto Granzotto 🌹 based on the work of Josef Albers 🌹 License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

“I’ve learned over the years to look at computers in a very specific way. I believe that beyond being our companion tool for an easier everyday life, through art they can escape the utilitarian aspect that was attributed to them primarily. I type my code. I look at the screen. Something manifests. It’s light. Not just some magical abstract movement of energy happening in the realms of a silicon world. There’s something in front of my eyes that leaves the surface of a rectangular device to inhabit the room in which I’m present. The idea behind this collection is to manifest those experiences using code to shift and transport pixels in realtime. To use the computer as the light generator that it is. It’s something that I’ve been working now for several months and it feels like a genuine expression (or at least the attempt) of what I describe above.”

The one thing we cannot buy on Black Friday is Black Friday itself...

But what if we could?

"Black Friday Sale" allows anyone to own Black Friday, or at least its image. It can be yours forever, secured on the blockchain as surely as if you had right-click-saved it.

Endless Nameless is an exploration of composition. We start with a square. The square is divided into sections. The sections are filled with color pairs. Sometimes all colors are used. Sometimes fewer colors are used.

Each Monogrid artwork gets initialized with a start up algorithm that builds up a set of rectangles and fills them with pixels. The style of the initial filling depends on the position in the main grid.

The first row (#00-0F) starts with a low density pixel grid. The density increases up to the middle row (#70-7F), where the pixel grid converts into a line grid. From the middle (#80-8F) to the bottom (#F0-FF) the density decreases again.

The color balance fades from white on the left column (#00-F0) to black on the right column (#0F-FF). The complexity of the initial setup is highest in the middle (#77, #78, #87, #88) and gradually reduces to the outside. The dynamic of the animation works in the opposite direction. The simpler the structure, the higher the dynamic of the movement.

There is a set of 16 animations at work. 4 noise based animations, 4 shifting animations, 4 modulo based animation and 4 reset animations, all run in parallel. Each animation selects a rectangle from the initial setup and edits the pixels in this area. The selection process runs independently and animations can overlap which results in a new style of animation.

PXL DEX is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL DEX is the first artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet.

The NFTs can be minted for 0.5 ETH plus 0.000001 ETH per pixel. Each pixel is actually a PXL token and will initially be owned by the PXL DEX Smart Contract to be assigned to the minted NFT. PXL tokens can be withdrawn and deposited by the owner. The minter is allowed to mint up to 500.000 PXL tokens along with the NFT. Each Deck has an additional allowance of 500.000 PXL to be minted any time later. The allowance is bound to the NFT and will transfer along with the NFT ownership.

A single Deck can hold all available PXL tokens, there is no limit on the Smart Contract level. The only limitation is the GPU of the computer that displays the Deck.

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Cargo is a series of abstract paintings created with animated pixels that are constantly moving without ever repeating. It is painting new patterns on the fly in between macro and micro compositions with a duality of different rhythms and continuous synchronicity. The focus is alternately drawn to detail, then distracted by movement elsewhere and caught up in the overall picture. This rhythm turns the visual complexity into an active experience.

ASDF: “My work should offer individual ways of interpretation, or even allow one to find some self in it. It wants to inspire some thoughts about dynamics and systemics and also just mesmerize the audience, capture them in a little fantasy, or just for a brief moment in a state of satisfaction.”

Released under alias YMMSH.

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Inner (2023) by Rafaël Rozendaal 🌹 The work is responsive, it adjusts to any screen size 🌹 Code by Reinier Feijen 🌹 The code of this work is stored on the Ethereum blockchain 🌹 License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Points of change and new opportunities.

Memories of relationships and love reflected through color. Bright Moments NY, November 2021.

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“Squares” utilizes the shape of a square as a unit of construction, combining and overlapping them at various scales to create interplays of color, structure, and atmosphere. The overall effect is something along the lines of Bauhaus meets Blade Runner, as complex rectilinear forms float untethered through fields of light and texture.

Chan Deck, Christmas.

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Roehrs & Boetsch Advent Calendar 2020 – Door #14

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Volume (2023) by Rafaël Rozendaal 🌹 The work is responsive, it adjusts to any screen size 🌹 Code by Reinier Feijen 🌹 The code of this work is stored on the Ethereum blockchain 🌹 License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Notes is a generative collection that dives into the vivid online universe of perfume descriptions. Pulling from lists of fragrance “notes,” product description text, and personal perfume reviews from fragrantica, Notes remixes found language into a unique visual output– a collaged, imaginary fragrance. Given the inability to sample scents through our phones or computers, perfumes rely on detailed descriptions to best communicate what a product smells like and persuade potential customers online. Notes requests its audience to use their scent imagination. With a visual sensibility inspired by magazine perfume ads, glossy bottles, and colorful language, this collection combines bright, evocative visuals and text to deliver you a computer conjured scent of your dreams.

In 1983, Bill Atkinson was working on MacPaint, a graphics application for the Apple Lisa. While drinking a beer at a local bar, he noticed an animated waterfall in a beer sign on the wall. The effect was created by rotating an image under a mask. Back home he applied the animation using simple diagonal lines producing a moving dashed line. The ‘marching ants’, or animated selection marquee that became ubiquitous in interface culture, were born.

I have always been spellbound by the selection marquee. The elegance and sensitivity of this element of GUI is unlike anything else. Extending the idea of circling a word with a pencil it is a physical manifestation of our mental capacity to select, bringing in all the unique material beauty that only the computer can offer. Paraphrasing Bruce Nauman, on the one hand it’s just a daily used functional element, but on the other when seen for what it is, it is a profound experience. Like something between a beer and a waterfall.

Andreas Gysin’s X-Y-Z explores the built-in typeface of vintage HP X-Y vector displays like the HP1345 and HP1349, optimized for efficient rendering with minimal memory. An infinite, ever-evolving sequence of planes, defined by simple geometric shapes, flows towards the viewport. Letters and numbers appear within and around these planes, forming new structures and geometries that continuously change over time. Meaning is conveyed not through words or text, but through movement and form.

Commissioned by Flamingo DAO

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At times, we have long strange dreams full of characters and events, odd symbols and different emotions. The dreams are all so varied but something connects them with each other. It is believed that dreams are a reflection of our reality... and that a dream continues all the time, regardless of whether we see it or not.

YES** Color Recall captures the essence of an upstate New York snowfall in multisensory, vibrant colors. The piece combines digital landscape photography with dense patterns from analog and algorithmically-generated visuals. Digital Video (2023) Commissioned by Gemma

No Idea (2023) by Rafaël Rozendaal 🌹 The work is responsive, it adjusts to any screen size 🌹 Code by Reinier Feijen 🌹 The code of this work is stored on the Ethereum blockchain 🌹 License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0