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the stream, a chladni figure drawn from an ethereum block

entropy

2022
Ethereum smart contract serving HTML and JavaScript, Chladni-like figures computed from block hashes, The Stream live, Absolute Zero 511 frozen frames with stills on Arweave Variable dimensions Released by the artist, September 2022 Ethereum 0x01cc…5480 NM22CD010 The Stream, unique work. Absolute Zero, 511 works

I trained as a mechanical engineer and I have always loved Chladni figures, the shapes sand makes on a vibrating plate. One day in the shower I wondered if you could watch the blockchain live. After months of work, The Stream drew a new figure from the hash of every Ethereum block. Then: what if you could own a single block, like one frame of a film? That is Absolute Zero, named after the temperature where nothing moves.

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