XCOPY · Right Click and Save-As Guy
Saints of Scarcity: XCOPY’s ‘Right-Click and Save as Guy’
1,239 words · XCOPY · KnownOrigin hangs here
Claire Silver · Genesis
The Mother of the Muses: Claire Silver’s Genesis
1,546 words · Genesis by Claire Silver hangs here
Larva Labs · CryptoPunk #1478
All Roads Lead to Punks
1,960 words · CryptoPunks hangs here
Mathcastles · Terraforms Level 7 at {22,3}
The Republic of Dreams: Mathcastles’ Terraforms
2,585 words · Terraforms by Mathcastles hangs here
Snowfro · Chromie Squiggle #9951
The Rainbow Soul of Generative Art
2,790 words · Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro hangs here
Kim Asendorf · Cargo #793
Order from Noise
1,726 words · Cargo by Kim Asendorf hangs here
Emily Xie · Memories of Qilin #600
Chimeras of Qilin: Emily Xie’s Memories of Qilin
1,543 words · Memories of Qilin by Emily Xie hangs here
Deafbeef · First First
Clean Slate: Deafbeef’s First First
2,018 words · Deafbeef hangs here
Roope Rainisto · Life In West America
Frames of Reference
1,842 words · Life In West America by Roope Rainisto hangs here
Tyler Hobbs · Fidenza #479
The Flow Fields of Fidenza
2,333 words · Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs hangs here
Botto · Interpret Complete
Making Intelligence: Botto
1,788 words
Vera Molnár x Martin Grasser · Themes and Variations #495, #445, #99
Machine Imaginaire (Themes and Variations)
2,087 words · Themes and Variations by Vera Molnár, in collaboration with Martin Grasser hangs here
Lethal Aesthetics: The Poetics of nameless dread
1,704 words
Fragments of Familiarity: Joe Pease, Filming Life
1,640 words
Inscription #1
307 words
Why these and not more
Transient Labs' contracts let anyone attach text to a token permanently. We read every one written on Ethereum, 2,725 of them across 876 contracts, to find out whether that had produced a literature. Mostly it has not: a quarter are a single line, and only three percent run past five hundred words.
One collection is the exception. glitch gallery's E30D carries fourteen commissioned essays, each between 1,200 and 2,800 words, footnoted and sourced, on a specific work by a specific artist. Eleven of the fourteen are about collections hanging in this gallery.
The rest of this room is ours. When we publish a work we inscribe its story on the same kind of contract, in the same permanent way, and read it back here from the chain rather than from a database. Those pages say so plainly: writing we did not do carries a line explaining that we only render it.
We would rather run a small room of good writing than a tab that is empty on three hundred collections.