Natural Static by Jonathan Chomko: minting next week, IRL show now in NYC + online exhibition on generative art
Longest title - apologies but we have great stuff going on right now and you don't want to miss it!
Jonathan Chomko’s drop launched by JPG is currently on a very “irl” display at Public Works Administration in Times Square, New York City, until Sunday. The pop-up show, curated by the legendary Brian Droitcour, is an audiovisual installation that aims to show the Natural Static NFT series that drops next week on JPG. If you happen to be in New York, pop by - here are the opening times.
Jonathan’s thread on the exhibition.
We’ve also set the date for the launch - Natural Static is going to be launching at 1pm ET / 7pm CEST, on Wednesday, September 27th. There will be an allowlist for previous Chomko collectors, and JPG drops collectors (Salt by Figure31 and 0xmons, Social Contracts by Burak Arikan and Canonicon by JPG and 0xStardrop). More details for allowlist + minting site will be announced on our Discord.
What is Natural Static?
Simulation of motion in digital worlds has long been an obsession for animators and artists alike. In Natural Static, Jonathan Chomko questions this desire, asserting that natural motion contains more detail and complexity than any synthetic simulation.
Natural Static is a generative NFT series that feeds video of natural motion into a pixel-based water simulation, creating representations of physical motion that are both highly digital and deeply analog. As in a standard generative series, parameters such as colour, mode, and cycle speed are derived from a hash created on mint. The visual dynamism of the work comes from videos of complex natural motion, taken outside, in nature.
allowlist opens 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CET, main sale opens 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET, collection size around 440 pieces tbc, 0.1 eth each.
Listen and watch one of the artworks here.
Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm
Online Exhibition, curated by Brian Droitcour, launched en tandem with Natural Static
“Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm” features artists who measure the rules of digital technology against the natural physics of light and sound, who stage encounters between the logics of computation and representation, who explore the space where the real world crashes into simulated ones.
With Jonathan Chomko, Sarah Zucker, LoVid, Amon Tobin, Random International, Marty Grasser, Shl0ms, Sky Goodman, John Gerrard.
Café JPG Twitter Spaces - Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm
with Figure31, Micol Ap (Vertical Crypto), Jonathan Chomko, Brian Droitcour and the usual jpegs, Trent and I, MP.
Other great stuff
Our spaces this past week was AMAZING - the Café is back! we had Jan Robert Leegte talk about Web right after the auction ended, Lovid talking about their new Ordinals project Disco Fever, Misha talking about his work on generative + physical, Jonathan on Natural Static, and a special appearance by Proper, that explained us all about Ordinals.
Source curated by Deafbeef and Operator on Feral File is very cool
That’s not all - there’s lots more great art and news being shared every day on the JPG discord, I just selected a few but I really encourage you to just join and enjoy :)
Stay tuned for more Natural Static updates! :)
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MP
