Alive on Chain: A Survey of Recent Art Where the Medium Is the Work

Crafts dynamically integrated, shown on ygg ’s viewer for The Vessel From bytecode to token standards, a wave of recent Ethereum projects treats the chain’s own components as creative material. More than archival The practice of putting art on a blockchain is almost as old as blockchains themselves. It arguably begins with a 2011 memorial inscription written into the data of a Bitcoin transaction.¹ Tribute to a friend, a sort of soul-bound work on BTC transaction 930a211 The intuition behind thi