Frontier technology and avant-garde art have never been opposite.
In the BCH community a live video that has not stopped yet has attracted a lot of fans' attention.
This is a performance art the onlookers simply transfer the BCH to the designated address and the feed feeder will release the feed and feed the flocks in the video.
As a frontier technology blockchain has long been combined with cutting-edge art. It not only brings new creative themes to the artist but also revolutionizes the collaborative mode of artistic creation and even the copyright concept.
“The blockchain and the art are not without intersection” says an artist who works on blockchain art.
On October 26th video blogger Mahlon Chase posted a video on “Picking Chicken” on YouTube titled “Feed Chicken with BCH”.
The content of this video is very simple it is a simple flip of a live video. The live lens is aimed at a chicken house with a feed feeder. The BCH logo is printed on the feeder. A fat chicken is eating fast until the feed is finished.
In the upper left corner of the live video a QR code is placed. The video blogger explained that the viewer only needs to scan the QR code through the BCH wallet and transfer the BCH worth more than $0.5 to the designated account. After 5 seconds the feed feeder can automatically release the feed.
As a demonstration the blogger transferred a BCH worth $0.50. Soon the feeder released a small pile of feed and immediately brought two chickens and the three chickens happily tasted the food together.
This interesting video quickly caught the attention of BCH enthusiasts. On the Twitch live platform it received 5400 plays.
Live platform screen
In just a few days the BCH address announced by the blogger received 255 transfers a total of 0.3229 BCH (about 137 US dollars). This means that the chickens in the video have already enjoyed 255 big meals.
In just a few days the blogger received 255 transfers.
"It's a very interesting project but aren't these chickens too fat?" On YouTube some netizens said humorously.
The players in the currency circle refer to the blogger's attempt as a performance art. The feed feeder used by the blogger is actually a modified candy box called CryptoCandy which costs $60 on Amazon.
At the same time in this demo video the blogger also provided a big exposure to the BCH wallet Handcash. It is not difficult to guess that this performance art the high probability is a marketing action of Handcash wallet.
02 Created by smart contract
Aside from BCH's gimmicks the design of this performance art is not complicated and it lacks new ideas. If there is no difference between BCH transfer and Alipay WeChat scan code payment and finally the behavioral art form.
In contrast Plantoid the originator of the blockchain for art design went a step further in exploring the art of blockchain.
Plantoid can be translated as a "plant bionic robot." In terms of appearance the Plantoid device is based on plants in the real world and the device itself is made of a large amount of metal materials supplemented by an electronic lighting system to achieve more control functions.
a Plantoid
But unlike traditional installation art Plantoid's creative process relies on a blockchain smart contract. In other words its creation is “decentralized”.
“Plantoid cannot be viewed simply as a series of installation art it is an artificial life art form that exists in the blockchain” Plantoid founder De Filippi once said.
Like plants in the real world Plantoid also has stages of growth and reproduction. During the growth phase Plantoid has built a smart contract and anyone interested in participating in the project can send their digital assets here.
Once the assets are sufficient they will be used for tendering and artists designers welders and other professionals will be involved in the design work of Plantoid.
The Smart Contract also established a DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) for all fundraisers. All users participating in the fundraising will have the decision to decide on the final form of Plantoid.
Like plants in the real world Plantoid also has its own DNA. Its design plans such as shape size and more details were all recorded in the Ethereum.
DNA also sets the direction for the design of the new Plantoid - they must follow the DNA of the previous generation of Plantoid just like the reproduction of plants in the real world.
When Plantoid recruits enough digital assets ends the growth phase and completes the design plan the Plantoid's DAO will use the remaining digital assets for the reward convening the artist to begin the final production of the installation art.
Today the project has produced dozens of installations of art and works with artists from all over the world. Since 2017 Plantoid has hosted several exhibitions around the world.
Plantoid exhibition
The blockchain not only brings new creations and fundraising forms to art works but also changes the copyright concept of works of art.
“Traditional copyright laws are completely different from Plantoid's growth and reproduction mechanisms such as plants.” Fei Lippi said “Plantoid relies on a unique design to create scarcity which gives artists the greatest motivation to spread their work than to use copyright restrictions. The work makes more sense."
03 in the secret
There is a young man named Yu who also made a performance art work related to Bitcoin. Its name called "In the Secret" - he printed his bitcoin address on a banknote and used it to buy a can of cola at the supermarket.
"In this way on a certain day perhaps this address will enter the central bank with this banknote." Yu Yu told a blockchain reporter.
He started paying attention to Bitcoin when Bitcoin prices rose sharply last year.
He found that the design concept of Bitcoin is similar to the creative concept of many works of art. “In the history of art there are many works that discuss the issue of identity anonymity and have discussed utopian politics but it is only bitcoin that can really put this idea to the ground and use it on a large scale.”
He believes that in a sense Bitcoin is a work of art and Nakamoto is the creator of this piece of art.
The identity of Nakamoto is still unknown to the world and in the art world the most famous anonymous artist is Banks. His street art is said to be priced at up to £1 million.
“Banks once did a performance art entrusting a painting with his own signature to an old man who was on the street selling a few dollars and the result was unattended. But when the paintings were taken to the auction house "I sold hundreds of thousands of dollars." Yu Yu said "This may be the absurdity of the central organization."
After creating "In the Secret" he said that if the banking system is a machine what he wants to do is put a grain of sand inside.
"It may never be discovered but it will always be there."
From blockchain raising chickens to complex plant art Plantoids blockchains are giving artists more inspiration and more creative tools.
Perhaps cutting-edge technology and avant-garde art have never been opposite.