Iterative Shifts are a generative NFT series by Zemm and Shelderr, made in the last days of 2021. They were created on the ethblock.art platform, on the Ethereum network. This essay catalogs some thoughts on the work. SPIRALS When William Burroughs conjures time loops, it is by the apparatus of…

When new frameworks enter the world, new archetypes will follow. In DeFi Total Vision, I sought to imagine four forces, as if four winds that power the essence of our new technological culture. …

Shards of story trapped in drawings, a world at the edge of a post human age. Each shard is also an NFT, which you may collect to summon the creation of new 1/1 works called Multi-Shards. There will be 8 Shards created, 3 editions of each. Shard NFTs have ZTC…

“35 Days” is a digital collage and poem, based on thirty five drawings created between January and December of 2020. I made these colored pencil works during the pandemic, living in itinerant locations. Even in the first drawing (row 2, column 5), there is indication of what was to come…

Information on the Cosmos Series. — TL;DR I work best and have the most fun when I embark on worldbuilding projects through my art. This is one such. …

This story is a catalog of symbols, presented in a pseudo narrative form. Each Canticle is tied to an NFT, and created as ekphratic writing for the NFT’s image (the writing is evoked by the imagery in the art). The writing may not be accessible or always very good, its…

Addressing the oft asked question of what are NFTs, I would like to approach not from the technologist view, but rather from the stance of a speculative futurism in art and cultural theory. What do they do for us now? What may they usher forth in the future? Why did…

I made my own HashMasks. BrashMask was made of a set of limited elements, just like the Hashmasks — a background, a mask, an object in its hand. I assembled them with the living romanticism of poets, the human initiative to divine meaning from a soup of possible semiotic forms…

Recently, I gave a guest lecture at an art college in the UK to cover, specifically, the way that artist publications have intertwined with magical sensibilities. This question has become something of a niche specialty of mine, and the school’s faculty thought it might shake something loose in the students…