JAMES BLOOM

ARTIST

VOICE GEMS x Crashblossom

CRASHBLOSSOM | PFPX30

His artist name says it all: Crashblossom defines the ambiguity of information. His name and art stand for the examination of the jagged human relationship to the technologies that define our lives. James Bloom, aka Crashblossom, creates art based on the moments when technology fails and generates dynamic digital art influenced by its viewers and collectors. In conversation with Anika Meier, Crashblossom discusses his practice and influences, the fetishization of technology, and the power of the blockchain.

London-based James Bloom has been creating art since his teens. He has always viewed art as his passion, never a possible career—until he discovered crypto art. Bloom saw it as a possibility to bring together art and digital innovation while exploring society's contemporary experience. Influenced by the dopamine-triggering colours and movements of computer games and inspired by failures of technology, Bloom creates abstract works, which, through the combination of glitched forms and live data feeds, act as living artworks. Under his alias Crashblossom, the artist questions the technological systems on which his artworks are based.

DYNAMIC ART AND GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION

CRASHBLOSSOM: "BLOCKCHAINS CAN TRANSFORM OUR WORLD"

MAGAZINE

19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. In collaboration with The NFT Gallery in London and New York. 


AI AND MEMORY 

RECOLLECTION | NEW YORK, LONDON

VOICES OF WEB3 is an archive of voices and statements summing up the year 2023 in digital art and culture. It is a document in time on the blockchain bringing together some of the leading voices shaping Web3 and the history of digital art.

THE ARCHIVE 2023

VOICES OF WEB3 | GALLERY

EXHIBITION

View on <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/pfpx30">OpenSea</a>. PFPx12 contains elements and memories of previous artworks in James Bloom's PFP series, which explore the splintering of identity in digital environments. Here the degraded digital identity is propelled into a state of continuous change over time. <meta charset="utf-8">A dynamic AI edition of 12 pieces, where all the editions are the same, but each one different at any time. The continual dynamic changes of the neural net-generated artwork are hardly perceptible, calling into question the reliability of memory and perception. 
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION PFPx12 by James Bloom is part of the exhibition RECOLLECTION. AI AND MEMORY presented by EXPANDED.ART in collaboration with The NFT Gallery at their galleries in New York and London, 11 April – 13 May 2023. 19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI.  <meta charset="utf-8">Memories are nebulous. Scientific studies and phenomena such as "The Mandela Effect" have shown that humans rarely recall things in their unbiased exactitude. Artificial Intelligence already assists human memory in the form of predictive text and GPS navigation. One would surmise that there exists a role for AI when it comes to supplementing even more complex memory. Artists: Ilya Bliznets, <meta charset="utf-8">Crashblossom, Anna Dart, Olga Fedorova, Ross Goodwin, Danielle King, Margaret Murphy, Kika Nicolela, Roope Rainisto, Daria Rastunina, Manuel Rossner, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Anne Spalter, Nathaniel Stern, Sasha Stiles, Stephan Vasement, Nicola Villa, Sabato Visconti, and Erika Weitz. ABOUT THE NFT Contract address: <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xd3ab210b3102a1deeeb20338baa9a50f577dc316" data-mce-href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xd3ab210b3102a1deeeb20338baa9a50f577dc316">0xd3ab210b3102a1deeeb20338baa9a50f577dc31 </a>Token Standard: ERC-721 Blockchain: Ethereum Metadata: Frozen and decentralized

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PFPx12

2023 | Video game imagery, neural net processing and additive digital painting, dynamic blockchain code | 4293 x 6400 px | Edition of 30 | 

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