John Gerrard
Irish
Born 1974
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Dublin, Ireland
John Gerrard is a multimedia artist who is best known for creating virtual sculptures that unfold in real time through sophisticated simulations. Using technologies like satellite data, 3D scanning, and motion capture, Gerrard constructs algorithmic environments with dynamic choreographies, realistic day-night cycles, and continuously rendered frames. His work challenges conventional notions of time-based media, offering a critical exploration of the visible and hidden forces shaping contemporary life. Blending technological precision with introspective scenes reminiscent of Beckett’s minimalism, Gerrard invites viewers to engage with the intricate logic and meaning of his perpetually evolving virtual worlds.
World Flag
World Flag is a generative NFT series by John Gerrard comprising 195 national flags rendered as colored virtual smoke, each situated within a unique, code-generated desert landscape synchronized to the local time and seasons of the represented country. Created from a single 112 KB on-chain script using WebGL, the work envisions a shared yet unequal future in which environmental collapse has reduced the nation-state to a fading symbol. Released in order of each country's greenhouse gas emissions, World Flag extends Gerrard's ongoing exploration of climate change, geopolitics, and blockchain-based public art. A portion of proceeds supports the environmental nonprofit Hometree, continuing the artist's longstanding engagement with ecological issues.
World Flag #30
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Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico)
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 centers on sixteen fragments of dead coral found by the artist on the shores of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf Of Mexico. The work operates on local Yucatán time (GMT-5) and is an annual solar simulation. The sun rises and sets in the work simultaneously as in Mexico, thus each piece can look radically different from hour to hour, accurate across the solar year.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 is John Gerrard’s first work on the Tezos blockchain.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) #22
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John Gerrard
Irish
Born 1974
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Dublin, Ireland
John Gerrard is a multimedia artist who is best known for creating virtual sculptures that unfold in real time through sophisticated simulations. Using technologies like satellite data, 3D scanning, and motion capture, Gerrard constructs algorithmic environments with dynamic choreographies, realistic day-night cycles, and continuously rendered frames. His work challenges conventional notions of time-based media, offering a critical exploration of the visible and hidden forces shaping contemporary life. Blending technological precision with introspective scenes reminiscent of Beckett’s minimalism, Gerrard invites viewers to engage with the intricate logic and meaning of his perpetually evolving virtual worlds.
World Flag
World Flag is a generative NFT series by John Gerrard comprising 195 national flags rendered as colored virtual smoke, each situated within a unique, code-generated desert landscape synchronized to the local time and seasons of the represented country. Created from a single 112 KB on-chain script using WebGL, the work envisions a shared yet unequal future in which environmental collapse has reduced the nation-state to a fading symbol. Released in order of each country's greenhouse gas emissions, World Flag extends Gerrard's ongoing exploration of climate change, geopolitics, and blockchain-based public art. A portion of proceeds supports the environmental nonprofit Hometree, continuing the artist's longstanding engagement with ecological issues.
World Flag #30
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Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico)
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 centers on sixteen fragments of dead coral found by the artist on the shores of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf Of Mexico. The work operates on local Yucatán time (GMT-5) and is an annual solar simulation. The sun rises and sets in the work simultaneously as in Mexico, thus each piece can look radically different from hour to hour, accurate across the solar year.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 is John Gerrard’s first work on the Tezos blockchain.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) #22
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John Gerrard
Irish
Born 1974
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Dublin, Ireland
John Gerrard is a multimedia artist who is best known for creating virtual sculptures that unfold in real time through sophisticated simulations. Using technologies like satellite data, 3D scanning, and motion capture, Gerrard constructs algorithmic environments with dynamic choreographies, realistic day-night cycles, and continuously rendered frames. His work challenges conventional notions of time-based media, offering a critical exploration of the visible and hidden forces shaping contemporary life. Blending technological precision with introspective scenes reminiscent of Beckett’s minimalism, Gerrard invites viewers to engage with the intricate logic and meaning of his perpetually evolving virtual worlds.
World Flag
World Flag is a generative NFT series by John Gerrard comprising 195 national flags rendered as colored virtual smoke, each situated within a unique, code-generated desert landscape synchronized to the local time and seasons of the represented country. Created from a single 112 KB on-chain script using WebGL, the work envisions a shared yet unequal future in which environmental collapse has reduced the nation-state to a fading symbol. Released in order of each country's greenhouse gas emissions, World Flag extends Gerrard's ongoing exploration of climate change, geopolitics, and blockchain-based public art. A portion of proceeds supports the environmental nonprofit Hometree, continuing the artist's longstanding engagement with ecological issues.
World Flag #30
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Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico)
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 centers on sixteen fragments of dead coral found by the artist on the shores of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf Of Mexico. The work operates on local Yucatán time (GMT-5) and is an annual solar simulation. The sun rises and sets in the work simultaneously as in Mexico, thus each piece can look radically different from hour to hour, accurate across the solar year.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) 2022 is John Gerrard’s first work on the Tezos blockchain.
Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) #22
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