BURNER harnesses network processes to create a never-ending stream of changing visual states. The artworks react dynamically to people’s activity on the blockchain. As blockchain usage and ‘gas’ increases, the 256 live artworks become more forceful. The images are sourced from pictures of real physical gas, which are digitally extruded and processed until their opaque form breaks down even further. The imagery is made dependent on its network relations by connecting it to live blockchain data. BURNER pictures a relentless, perpetual network process which escapes our comprehension.
ABOUT JAMES BLOOM
James Bloom is a London-based artist who uses technological innovation as a method to generate new perceptual problems.
His online artworks connect their participants in real-time but have utility and functionality engineered out, upending the structure of the networks they exist within and revealing possibilities for autonomy.
He takes deliberately complex code-based and material production techniques and combines them in unintended ways, often to the point of failure, triggering new states.
His work is in the permanent collection of the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe and Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz. He has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale, Art Basel, Strouk Gallery and Foundry among others. His works have been shown in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Dubai and Singapore.
His online artworks connect their participants in real-time but have utility and functionality engineered out, upending the structure of the networks they exist within and revealing possibilities for autonomy.
He takes deliberately complex code-based and material production techniques and combines them in unintended ways, often to the point of failure, triggering new states.
His work is in the permanent collection of the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe and Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz. He has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale, Art Basel, Strouk Gallery and Foundry among others. His works have been shown in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Dubai and Singapore.
