Flight Studies
Flight Studies was released in April 2021 as part of a landmark, coordinated NFT drop involving more than 35 pioneering digital artists in support of #CleanNFT, an initiative advocating for the transition of digital art to low-energy blockchain infrastructures.
The series is generated using GLSL shader code and draws from the pre-cinematographic motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge. Synthetic chromatic aberration—produced algorithmically rather than optically—becomes a conceptual device, pointing to the dual nature of attention: at once a tool for amplification and a mechanism of capture.
More than a century after Muybridge’s investigations of movement, contemporary image production is entangled with systems of extraction and consumption. Cryptocurrency networks based on proof-of-work intensify this tension, posing significant environmental risks. In Flight Studies, the lens turns back on the viewer: our appetite for images, data, and constant visual stimulation reveals itself as both desire and threat. Like birds in open flight, we often fail to perceive the invisible structures that shape—and limit—our future trajectories.
Editions:
FlightStudies 002: single ed., minted in April 2021
FlightStudies 003: ed. of 9, minted in April 2021
FlightStudies 004: ed. of 33, minted in April 2021
Upcycled Displays
To align the physical presentation with the ecological concerns of the work, Flight Studies is exhibited on a custom digital frame constructed from repurposed electronic waste. These minimalist display objects divert obsolete LCD screens from landfills, transforming discarded technology into contemplative instruments.
Inspired by the anti-industrial ethos of the Arts and Crafts movement, the frames merge metal, wood, and software into a hybrid artifact—where craftsmanship, sustainability, and digital media converge to produce an object with its own material presence and agency.
The FEN
This series of works was produced for The FEN, a coordinated CleanNFT drop initiated by curator Juliette Bibasse, visual artist Joanie Lemercier and more than 35 pioneering digital media artists in response to the outrageous greenhouse-gas emissions of CryptoArt releases on the Ethereum blockchain (PoW).
Our goal was to encourage the community to transition their NFTs to a low-energy platform, such as hic et nunc (Tezos Blockchain, PoS). Minting an NFT on hic et nunc has associated emissions equivalent to an email.
As part of this project, The FEN invited each creative to donate 10% of the proceeds to a project of their choice (local project, NGO, activism, etc..).”
For more information please visit thefen.io
Artists include: beesandbombs (Dave Whyte), Memo Akten, Myriam Bleau, Mike Brondbjerg, Cinzia Campolese, Alex J. Champandard, Raphael de Courville, Ali M Demirel, Cadie Desbiens, Zai Divecha, Diane Drubay, Saskia Freeke, Nettrice Gaskins, Han, Auriea Harvey, Mario Klingemann, Joanie Lemercier, Golan Levin, LIA, Zach Lieberman, Shantell Martin, Kelly Richardson, RubenFro, Helena Sarin, Sasha Stiles, Patrick Tresset, Mike Tyka, Universal Everything, Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Addie Wagenknecht