Digital Ripples

An NFT series that explores the intersection of digital art, sound, and blockchain technology.

The series focuses on the uniqueness in the dissemination of digital artworks in today’s networked society, and how digital artworks are shared across the internet, resembling ripples generated by a water droplet on a lake. In this context, Digital Ripples, as a work consisting of different layers, tell an abstract aesthetic story in each layer. The work builds on natural behaviors, such as multimodal flow, and the connection between visceral and auditory sensations. Digital ripples look for the memory in these waves and the source of the information in the memory in an unrefined intersection of nature, daily life, and music. The memory of the city, the change of the city, the flow of nature, the sharing of information, and the fluctuation of information are expressed verbally and visually in different parts of the work.

An iterative design process was used in the work that the composition consists of visual reflections with words taught to artificial intelligence. The values that change depend on the texture and the connection between humans and computers in the visual world. Continuing with the text and the computer’s processing of the text, a bridge was built between the human and the computer. This link matches the visual and the words in the machine’s memory, it also establishes a link with the music through words. It also offers cartography for Digital Ripples texture manipulation and texture imagination.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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