"Happiness is knowing that The Beatles will always linger in your mind."

~ Rutherford Chang [ RIP ]

#TheBeatles

I kind of doubt that Rutherford said this

😜

but I love the photos!

I think these are from Recess, the fist time it was exhibited. He was present in the gallery for most of the entire time it was up, and I was sitting in the back lurking :p

Rutherford Chang’s We Buy White Albums is now on view at GOLD in Hong Kong, occupying the entire “Side B” as one of the exhibition’s two main poles.

WBWA was built over nearly twenty years and consists of 3,417 numbered first pressings, transforming an icon of mass production vidual histories. It has toured the globe and maintains an enthusiastic fanbase. Chang's limited edition composite album is highly sought-after collector's item.

GOLD is a new interdisciplinary cultural space in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong’s leading contemporary-art district. The show extends Chang's visibility across Asia, with coverage already appearing throughout Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Significant red CENT from 1976 & Birds of a Feather by @ThePand3monium collected on ord.net ◉

Featured Collector of the Day @osseneth

I’ll admit, though, I’m curious who told you about the bitGANg and what drew you to them, as opposed to my more critically acclaimed AI portrait collections?

gm AI art fans.

Most early AI art pieces are stunning, but stand alone.

Few can be grouped together as sets to tell as compelling a story through artistic evolution and time as the below.

My favorite, by @VanArman:

𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Nothing like visiting the Cents by OrdiGallery and posing with “The Block,” in your BTC tee. 🖤

@thedaoistpunk @sovrnart gm 🔥

generative art is indeed one of the aspects of CENTS

all surfaces begin as the most widely reproduced piece of physical art on Earth - the portrait of Lincoln made by Victor David Brenner in 1909 for the Lincoln cent

and Rutherford Chang applied a consistent rule set to meet these surfaces, archivally photographing the first 10,000 copper (pre-1983) pennies he gathered from apx 150,000 pennies that he got from exchanging at banks (until they ultimately banned him :p) and as change from shops.

He was extremely strict with the rule sets in all of his art, and the resulting visual (and audio) elements are created from these rules.

One could call this "time-based generative art".

But this generative visual (/audio) element is only one part of his work. Overall, his oeuvre resides in systems art.
The visual component is not primary, but rather a mode of entry into the underlying conceptual structure.

CENTS for instance has rich visual subtlety (which has been meticulously cataloged by the Trait Council and can be explored in a variety of ways on cents(dot)vision). But the artwork overall is a conceptual gesture, a performance of value.

It's this quality that Art in America recognized in placing Chang in the canon of systems art, among significant artists who "self-consciously chart a lineage between systems art past and present.” With CENTS for instance, Chang created a system that performs in an artistic and absurdist way the transformative gestures that Bitcoin brought to digital objects and to currency.

As a side note if you want to get crazy, CENTS is also an engine of generative objecthood, a work that breaks the fixity of the object's centralized definition and places it in a kind of cauldron of decentralized transformation where the fundamental nature of what it is as an object is generated continuously as participants' perceptions evolve.

These multiple natures of Chang's art, all of them equally valid, are why I call it "prismatic".

You can look at it through any of these facets and see something true.

generative art.

generative art

discovering The @ClarkPeters2020 Collection site and its dedicated page for Rutherford Chang and CENTS

beautiful gallery site and context ser 👊👊

early coverage in the Hong Kong press about the upcoming showing of Rutherford Chang's We Buy White Albums piece

I can't believe they ship these 2+ tons of records around the world, but they've been now all around the US, Europe, China, Japan and now Hong Kong

This one coming led GOLD focusing on music and records at Serakai Studio's space in the heart of Hong Kong's Wong Chuk Hang art district.

Meanwhile Rutherford's body of work has recently arrived at the offices of art advisory team Schwartzman& where it's being prepared for premium presentation to galleries, museums and collectors.

Chang's art has been named in the canon of systems art by Art in America, and has been presented at the New Museum NYC, UCCA Beijing, Akademie der Künste Berlin, among others, will be claiming its place in both contemporary discourse and in history.

Multiple wallets. Hardware wallets too.

✅ Ledger
✅ Trezor 👀¹

Each wallet keeps its own accounts. Nothing mixed together.

Bitcoin art builders are unstoppable. 🖤🦜

AdjaCENTS, IV of VII: Pressed Cents.

Bright passages stretch coins into elongated souvenir pennies, commemorating skies the series already visited.

Copper Clouds Ten, Eleven and Twelve, assembled live from CENTS.

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☁️💙☁️💙☁️💙☁️

GFellaz

For the funds raised on yesterday's 1 of 1 raffle we bought 2 collections:

1x Cents by @sovrnart
1x @BITFOOTS_

We will be growing our vault for our future holders and helping Ordinals collections with these buys.

Check the Fella vault you can in our website:
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gm

feeling funky in the new Ordigallery

This team is incredible, check out the galleries here.
Bitcoin art builders are unstoppable ✊

Art

desert wheat is pretty neat.