February 01, 2022
Project Spotlight: John F. Simon, Jr. of Every Icon
Kevin is joined by Harri of Divergence , Sam from FingerprintsDAO , and John F. Simon, Jr. of Every Icon fame, the code-based conceptual art created by John in 1997. John has collaborated with Divergence and Fingerprints DAO ...
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Kevin is joined by Harri of Divergence, Sam from FingerprintsDAO, and John F. Simon, Jr. of Every Icon fame, the code-based conceptual art created by John in 1997. John has collaborated with Divergence and Fingerprints DAO to express this historical project on chain.
LINKS
- EveryIcon.xyz
- Every Icon | Twitter
- Every Icon Collection | OpenSea
- John F. Simon, Jr. | Website
- Harri | Twitter
- Artist Spotlight: Divergence and the Art of On-Chain Artwork NFTs | PROOF
- Sam Spike | Twitter
- Fingerprints DAO: The Smart Contract Art Curators | PROOF
- ÄDA 'WEB | Net Art Anthology
- Netscape | Wikipedia
- The Infinite Monkey Theorem Comes to Life | 13.7: Cosmos And Culture, NPR
- The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges | Mask of Reason
- Reproducing Borges’s Imaginary Library Online | The Paris Review
- 36 Years Ago Today, Steve Jobs Unveiled the First Macintosh | MacRumors
- HotJava | Wikipedia
- Viking Orbiter Views of Mars | NASA History Division
- The DEC PDP-11 Computer: Everything You Need to Know | History Computer
- Fine Arts and Graphic Design School, NYC | School of Visual Arts (SVA)
- We Print NFTs | Infinite Objects
- Art Term: Bauhaus | Tate
- The Art of Transparency | i-Perception
- Simultaneous and Successive Contrast | NASA
- ComplexCity | John F. Simon, Jr.
- Koyaanisqatsi | Prime Video
- Nouns DAO with Punk 4156 | PROOF
- Afterimage | University of California Press
- The Syntax of Binary Images by Woody Vasulka | Fotograf Magazine
- Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier | Amazon
- Visually Morphing NFT Muse Portraits | Glitchy Bitches
- Quantum Cryptography, Explained | QuantumXC
- Avid Lines by Arihz | FingerprintsDAO
- Autoglyphs by Larva Labs | Fingerprints DAO
- p5.js
- Divination Drawing | iclock.com
NOTES
- Who is John F. Simon, Jr., and what is Every Icon? [01:00]
- What inspired John's creation of Every Icon back in 1996, and what tools did he use to create it? [02:29]
- How Sol LeWitt's conceptual art influenced John's work, and what Every Icon's slow but steady movement through time is meant to convey about the human condition. [07:26]
- John's background in art and programming prior to Every Icon's creation. [09:17]
- How did Every Icon change John's thinking about projects he's created since? What movements and techniques from the past inform his work? [10:30]
- Has the material and labor-intensive nature of John's work made it difficult to sell on a sustainable level? How does he see NFTs changing the game? [13:18]
- How has Every Icon been adapted to the 21st century NFT world? [17:54]
- What approach did Harri take in adapting the older format of Every Icon to the blockchain? [25:30]
- Is Divergence committed solely to Ethereum blockchain projects? Do they have an eye on any L2 sidechains? What are the arguments for/against going in that direction? [30:31]
- Complex calculation and quantum considerations. [35:00]
- What got Sam involved in this project? [38:16]
- How does Sam discover up-and-coming artists and interesting projects to curate for FingerprintsDAO? What are the criteria for inclusion? [41:34]
- How new technologies are finally untethering software art pieces from the constraints of aging hardware and easing the labor of maintenance. [44:19]
- The best way to see the massive variety of pieces generated by users perusing the Every Icon collection. [48:54]
- What projects does John currently have in the works? [51:32]
- What kind of artwork is Sam really paying attention to right now? [52:39]
- Sam's thoughts about the future viability of L2 sidechains for NFTs and the exploration of what's possible at the intersection between the blockchain and physical world. [56:13]
- Are we still in the early days of the NFT space? [59:03]
- Parting thoughts. [1:01:45]