This project kicked off the MNML Series One week, where I decided to have a chilled week of coding, while listening to Orbital, Tubeway Army, The KLF, Future Sounds of London, Aphex Twin and Kate Bush. I wanted to push the thumbnail generated by fxhash into the realms of very minimal, but even I wasn't brave enough to make it a completely blank canvas, each mint has it's own unique subtle paper texture.
However over the period of 4 minutes 33 seconds the art piece is "performed", a visual version of John Cage's 4'33", in this case a single line, water and rainfall fill up the design. Once the 4 miniutes 33 seconds are up the artwork is finished.
To make sure everyone didn't end up with a blank canvas, a second project "33'4 was created afterwards to air drop to owners, with the artwork reversed; starting with the design going to nothing after 4'33", thus giving everyone a "before" and "after" version of the artwork to keep.
- Canonical project page: https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/12628
- High-resolution page: https://revdancatt.com/art/4-33-12628
- "Right Click Save" edition: https://revdancatt.com/RCS/4-33-12628
Canonical: where the v1 of the project was first published
High-res: where the project lives on my website with high-res outputs
RCS edition: where the latest updated version of the project lives
The files you need are...
index.html
╰ index.js
╰ paper.js
...spin up a local webserver or just opening index.html should do the trick, see instructions.md for, well, instructions.
I've placed the code here for educational purposes, for anyone who wants to learn from somewhat badly written code. You may not sell/mint/etc. outputs from this code, you may keep, print, display them for personal use. Please see the LICENSE for more information.