This exhibition at blockchain co-working space full node berlin brings together a selection of works that deal with notions of time and (im)mutability. various software clocks will be installed on computers or projected, complemented with printed posters, a calendar, and wearable pins.

the title references the song 'Formenverwandler' by Der Zyklus (Gerald Donald aka Heinrich Müller, 2001), in which vocals declare: "I’m shape-shifting from place to place, bending time, curving space."

Similar to this song, the works in this show reflect on time and change on subjective terms, by suggesting alternative representations and visualizations of this most fundamental of units.

With works by Dana Baddad, @laura-brown, @simon-denny, @eric-li-and-zak-jensen, @omsk-social-club, @niko-princen, @adriana-ramic, @billy-rennekamp, @micah-schippa, @laurel-schwulst, Aarati Akkapeddi, Soft, @justice-thelot, and @damon-zucconi

Many thanks to Kei Kreutler, Beth McCarthy, Billy Rennekamp, Sophie Ricarda, and Full Node Berlin for their generous support. 

Der Zyklus: Formenverwandler

From 7 september – 20 october 2019 left gallery took residence in a brick and mortar public art institution Stroom Den Haag.

left gallery is an online platform that produces and sells works of art as downloadable objects. These objects exist in limited editions, available for purchase. once purchased, buyers receive a cryptographic ‘token’ as proof of ownership. In rite of access, this token mechanism creates the conditions to access the works on display: engagement of visitors, such as purchases and social media activity operate as a stream of credit, which allow the works to remain on view. Follow left gallery on twitter or subscribe to the mailinglist, and the time to see the complete works increases; unlike its pages, and access may be denied. A purchase made through left gallery anywhere in the world extends the display of the works at stroom den haag. So long as sufficient credit remains, visitors can access all works within the project.

Rite of Access

Alexis Anais Avedisian, Shawné Michaelain Holloway, and Ryan Kuo were invited to explore creative production under two acutely contemporary pressures: surveillance capitalism and neoliberalism. These pressures create an increasingly stifling social field, in which individuals must navigate unusual cognitive demands of networked identity creation, branded performance, and digital work. For each artist, the choice to be both expressive and vulnerable, within these binds, is an act of subversion.

Considered together, they suggest how the self – as worker, as lover, as radically alienated subject – can navigate the demands of by deploying quiet strategies for survival: survival of one’s creativity, one’s spiritual and emotional life, one’s capacity for intimacy and closeness. Through poetry, double-speak, irony, and play, they posit abstract spaces for renewal, in which we might not be totally degraded.

__Alexis Anais Avedisian__ transmutes the frenetic anxiety over constant surveillance by one’s peers into an expressive practice that is conceptual and poetic. Her body of work forms a studied critique of our work as digital content producers as an inherently debased position. There is a material cost to this war of attrition, in which our identities are compromised by the alliance of corporations and governments. Further, there is a spiritual cost to producing content in an extractive medium, bounded by endless tap-dancing for likes, attention metrics, and a shrinking shelf life. The user censors herself into a tempered neutrality, in order to be seen, considered, made real to others.

Of course, this ‘clean state’ is complicated by ephemeral emotions which are also coded. In Avedisian’s archived, personal archives are minded to reveal truths about their owner. Avedisian transforms buried affective material - all the mess of self-doubt, mild paranoia, melancholic hope - into a moving dream-meditation. The user speaks online out of an exquisite, bittersweet desire to be seen by the fantasy object - themselves an abstraction. Each .gif, tweet, and post becomes a diamond portal of insight on its owner. Being perceived as “authentic” or genuine is nowhere near as important as the daily-renewed performance of self, in hopes of acknowledgement by one person chosen to matter in a nearly-infinite social matrix.  

The process of public yearning can paradoxically help the content creator realize herself. She develops herself through creation of a complex and dense archive. Her history is made through a growing relic of thoughts frozen in a server. This reach for intimacy, despite the fractured mediation of platforms, eventually allows the user to reflect carefully on her impulses and choices. The archive is never neutral or clean; it is charged with the entirety of the self. The personal archive may be mutable and in most cases, unseen and forgotten, but the creator is irrevocably changed and deepened through its creation.

In _File_, artist __Ryan Kuo__ explores the contemporary artist as a valuable member of the team in a fictional white-collar office, surrounded by eager project managers. The creative worker, trapped within a rubric of public production, must produce him or herself through relentless object-making. They toil away in a virtual office, beset by e-mail, by tasks and deadlines that accumulate without relief. They must think about their work, even as it is half-made, in terms of its aesthetic, market, and conceptual value. The producer is tasked with defending ownership of production, and this making is instantiated within digital labor’s shaky constructs, in which exploitation is rife, payment is low, and the dubious promise of “exposure” is offered as reward.

The wry, perceptive and self-aware tone of Kuo’s ‘user’s manual’ just barely holds off a cloud of corrosive anxiety, that lingers heavy outside the boundaries of each text box. Technocapitalism demands artist-workers manage their competitive instincts, their worries about their job’s instability and uncertainty, all while maintaining a bright spirit of cheerful collaboration. This imagined worker grapples with his position as a digital file owner through a rigorous thinking process. His logic and reasoning unfold in nuanced, elegant, and discrete branches, in a type of mental workflow chart. Eventually, much like Avedisian’s subject, Kuo’s worker ends up thinking about himself, his purpose and manifestation in the world, with an eye to success as it is personally – versus socially – defined.

File suggests how such a creator just might resist and maintain integrity through modes of extension, contingency. Treating the abstract creative process as a production of file systems opens up possibilities for the creator to become the source of value. Because the contents of File are subject to change over time, Kuo’s practice is itself the product. Providing shared access to his research, materials, and ongoing speculation on the meaning of the File-Work-Art Object means that the file is not only always unique, but also, never fixed. It cannot be easily archived, meaning: the artist cannot be filed away smoothly.

The films and works of __Shawné Michaelain Holloway__ describes the user’s inner life as one increasingly enacted on, in, and through screens and their emerging ontology. Screens, loaded with our fractured input, our opaque fragments of speech and thorny renders of ourselves, go on to have their own troubling, eerie lives. In holloway’s imagining, these intermediary spaces host dreamscapes in which we can reveal thoughts too fragile, wild, and unruly, in the safety and care of a viewer we somehow have learned to trust. As a ripe space for projection and idolatry, the screen allows for safely working out what closeness and warmth with a desired partner could look like. Before they’ve even arrived into view, traces of imagined conversations, ideas exchanged, and declarations unshared, have already been left behind.

In UNDELIVERED.zip, the unshared expression of desire can be nurtured without limit; private clips, loaded notes, and taped ephemera can blossom repeatedly. They can linger, float, forever here, just on the cusp of being sent out. In this passionately tended dreamscape, what you wished to happen for you (what you dream for yourself) might be just as important to examine as any easily narrated conclusion, any tidy wrapping-up. Crucially, it seems here that the time taken and invested into the longing that makes it valuable. The “formula of [money + time + desire] adds up to Love,” holloway writes, underscoring how we fashion intimacy in late capitalism. If I give my you time, my greatest asset, then that cements my expression of love.

holloway offers up each piece as a visual love letter. Each film is a small room only the viewer knows the password to. Here, we find an unfiltered, earnest care that almost feels radical, particularly when the onus is on the digital user is to edit down and perform indifference. holloway’s affect and intended nearness is immediately felt in the moment of watching. The viewer might be confused at first, caught off guard, and might even be a bit ashamed for looking through these gateways at private smiles. They might be surprised at such an unearned closeness with the artist, and find themselves burnt through, consumed, and haunted by these gifts, given with no expectation of return. New, unselfish ways to love, only mediated through devices doubly removed.

What was love like without a machine to mediate it? In one red-lit room, there are hints at how the propinquity, or closeness, found in our physical lives can be recreated online. The machine, the laptop on the bed, the headphones with heartbeat audible, the cord wrapped around the wrist, are sensual, extensions of the body. It is very late and love always sounds too direct, too honest, up close. Needed information about the intimate flows through our machines to us, but the loop to them closes without our continual care. The effort to try to meet the beloved within these dreamscapes built between machines demands both softness and logic, both emotional intelligence and intellectual commitment. The labor of love and its language, the effort to light oneself up as the adoring one, is rare work of the most difficult order. It is the quietest, surest form of resistance.

Nora N. Khan, 2016 

Quiet Strategies for Survival

Ryan Kuo

this is a software work built using a game engine. it contains a site that cycles through night and day as the computer directs and edits the scene in real time. the work has an infinite duration and assembles a new sequence each time it is run. it will softly unravel over time a central mystery that prompts questions such as: 

what secret is hiding here?  
what can we piece together?  
and what is the trouble with nouns? 

this could take 20 minutes or 20 days to solve.

nouns

Habib William Kherbek

A monograph concerning the ways in which the platform economy and the enclosure of data are changing economic, social, and political realities. 

Cover design by Etienne Macquet.

Technofeudalism Rising

Viktor Timofeev

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. 

This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this [recent exhibition DOG](https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/) at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. 
This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing system that is in fact, generated from itself.

each video is 2:11, 1920×1080, 60 fps, mp4 with sound

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. 

This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this [recent exhibition DOG](https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/) at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. 
This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing system that is in fact, generated from itself.

each video is 2:11, 1920×1080, 60 fps, mp4 with ticking clock sound

[see minted letters on OpenSea](https://opensea.io/assets?search[query]=Human%20Abecedary)

Human Abecedary: Intra-Letters

Francoise Gamma

Medium: Animated GIF Dimensions: 1280 × 960 px -----------About 'Transmeet' (2020): Coming from Gamma’s series of animated pixel line-drawings, 'Transmeet' is an animated gif that represents a meeting point. The work points to the mechanism of the Internet that allows users to connect with each other: the transmission of data. As we transmit our quantified selves across the fibre optic networks that scaffold the modern world, we meet and mingle somewhere in cyberspace or the cloud. In this way, sending, or giving oneself, is equivalent to being together.-----------About The Artist: Francoise Gamma is an artist and entity based in Barcelona who uses the Internet to draw animated, contorted and mutated bodies. Its work has appeared in Kanye West's blog, and in the American Fantasy Classics solo exhibition, as well on many other places of the www. Francoise is a member of the online art collective Computers Club..-----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery. -----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. GIF of 'Transmeet' 2. MP4 (h.264 (AVC, AAC LC) of 'Transmeet' 2. Owner’s Rights and Obligations-----------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, uncompressed, lossless, high-resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years. -----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. ‘Geomancer 4’-----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist, Serwah Attafuah, and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Coming from Gamma’s series of animated pixel line-drawings, *Transmeet* is an animated gif that represents a meeting point. The work points to the mechanism of the Internet that allows users to connect with each other: the transmission of data. As we transmit our quantified selves across the fibre optic networks that scaffold the modern world, we meet and mingle somewhere in cyberspace or the cloud. In this way, sending, or giving oneself, is equivalent to being together.

**About The Purchase**

The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**:  Animated GIF

**Dimensions**: 1280 × 960 px

**Edition**: 1+1AP


**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, uncompressed, lossless video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Transmeet

Kumbirai Makumbe

Medium: 3D Model (Variable) and silver-cast cermaic sculpture Dimensions: 58,2560 poly count, Sculpture size TBD-----------About The Work: 'The Gate' (2020) is Makumbe's second born. They’re a threshold, a portal even, both literally and metaphorically inspired by threshold concepts. They also exist both Materially/physically and digitally. A threshold concept can be considered to be like a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the individual cannot progress.-----------About the Artist:  Kumbirai Makumbe is an artist & designer who has a keen interest in curatorial methodologies. They are situation dependant, transform and metamorphose to ceaselessly take on various forms and manoeuvre through a diverse range of spaces. They take special interest in the materiality of digitally generated matter, the endless possibilities of their employability but also their ever-increasing capabilities for communication.They place significant effort into speculative explorations of alternative modes of being and thinking that could negate exclusionary acts and ideologies. Their work continually interrogates the multi-dimensionality of blackness, exclusionary acts and notions of inclusion, ‘in-betweenness’ and ‘caring’.-----------About The Purchase: The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery. Collector must contract TRANSFER to coordinate shipment of cast-bronze mask.-----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. GLB of 'The Gate'  2. DAE of 'The Gate'  3. Instructions for receiving silver-glazed ceramic sculpture audio 4. Owner’s Rights and Obligations -----------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, uncompressed, lossless codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years. -----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited.-----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork. Seller must be in direct contact with collector to facilitate transport of the silver-glazed, ceramic sculpture

*The Gate* (2020) is Makumbe's second born. They’re a threshold, a portal even, both literally and metaphorically inspired by threshold concepts. They also exist both Materially/physically and digitally. A threshold concept can be considered to be like a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the individual cannot progress.

**Medium**: Silver-glazed ceramic sculpture, 3D model (Variable)

**Dimensions**: Variable

**Edition**: 1+1AP

**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, lossless, uncompressed codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.

**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output.

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Seller must be in direct contact with collector to facilitate transport of the silver-glazed, ceramic sculpture

The Gate

Travess Smalley

Year: 2013 Medium: TIFF Dimensions: 12646 x 9426 px -----------About The Installation: In ‘Succulents in Early Spring, Kalanchoe Waldheimii’, Smalley hypermediates a singular moment in time by using digital editing techniques to process, compress, transform, extract, and dilate a digital photograph. The image object that was originally printed at a Walgreens is transformed through Smalley’s practice of Photoshop painting. This painting, an abstraction of the original digital photograph, was printed out, rescanned, and color-corrected a number of times. The resulting artwork, an expanded media artifact whose pixels burst web-browser windows at the seams, makes visible the unique visual logic of contemporary imaging software and the specific affordances of a liminal materiality. This work is meant to be downloaded and inspected closely at fullscreen.
 -----------About the Artist: Travess Smalley is an artist working with computation to make generative image systems. He is interested in painting software, computer graphics, digital image-making, and drawing. He is currently teaching and studying towards a MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design. -----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.-----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. TIFF of ‘Succulents in Early Spring, Kalanchoe Waldheimii’ 2. JPEG of ‘Succulents in Early Spring, Kalanchoe Waldheimii’ as Display Copy 3. Owner’s Rights and Obligations 4. Unique print available upon request, produced directly from the artist studio (Additonal production costs covered by the purchaser.)---------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.-----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. -----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compenstation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

In *Succulents in Early Spring, Kalanchoe Waldheimii*, Smalley hypermediates a singular moment in time by using digital editing techniques to process, compress, transform, extract, and dilate a digital photograph. The image object that was originally printed at a Walgreens is transformed through Smalley’s practice of Photoshop painting. This painting, an abstraction of the original digital photograph, was printed out, rescanned, and color-corrected a number of times. The resulting artwork, an expanded media artifact whose pixels burst web-browser windows at the seams, makes visible the unique visual logic of contemporary imaging software and the specific affordances of a liminal materiality. This work is meant to be downloaded and inspected closely at fullscreen.


**About The Purchase**

The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**:  TIFF

**Dimensions**: 12646 x 9426 px

**Edition For Sale**: 01/01

**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. Seller must contact artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Succulents in Early Spring, Kalanchoe Waldheimii

Rick Silva

Medium: Single-Channel Born-Digital Video with Audio Dimensions: 2160 x 2160 px -----------About 'Geomancer 4' (2021): Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. -----------About The Artist: Rick Silva was born in Brazil and lives in Eugene, Oregon where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. He has exhibited his work in over 20 solo and two-person exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and The Centre Pompidou.-----------About The Purchase:The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery. -----------Collector with private link will receive: 1. MP4 (h.264 (AVC, AAC LC) of 'Geomancer 4' 2. Owner’s Rights and Obligations-----------Preventative Conservation: Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, uncompressed, lossless, high-resolution video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years. -----------Display: Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. ‘Geomancer 4’-----------Copyright: The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work and of all images of the work.-----------Transfer of Ownership: The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist, Serwah Attafuah, and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Geomancy (Greek: γεωμαντεία, "earth divination") is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand.


**About The Purchase**

The Token ID points to a display copy of the artwork. The full collector package, is exclusively available through a private link that can only be transferred via the previous collector, TRANSFER, or left.gallery.

**Medium**:  Single channel, born-digital video with audio

**Dimensions**: 2160 x 2160 px, 29.970 fps

**Edition For Sale**: 01/01


**Preventative Conservation**

Collectors are encouraged to retain a full archival package for this work, which can be requested from TRANSFER at the time of purchase and may include: thumb drives containing the work, high-resolution, uncompressed, lossless video and audio codecs, exhibition copies and a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. In lieu of the full archival package, collectors are encouraged to download and preserve the digital collector's package on at least two external hard drives of their choice, stored in two separate geographic locations. Files should be migrated to new external hard drives every 3-5 years.


**Display**

Collectors should be mindful of resolution and size, so that they may avoid distorting the work. Under no circumstances can the file(s) be edited. Collector acknowledges that if they do not choose to purchase an archival package, they may not be receiving work at its highest quality output. 

**Copyright**

The Artist or their estate retains copyright of the work, and of all images of the work.

**Transfer of Ownership**

The work and all contents of the collector package must accompany any assignment or sale of the work. The Seller must contact the artist to complete resale compensation. The seller is obligated to confirm 50% of gross sale price has been paid to the artist and deliver the full archival package to the purchaser in order to complete title transfer for this artwork.

Geomancer 4

Harm van den Dorpel

This is one image from a series of four, originally posted by the artist on the surf club [Spirit Surfers](http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=767) under the monikor "INFOsembler", in 2008. The photos used were accidentally found with Google Image Search, and manipulated with Adobe Photoshop.

Art Gallery 1

Brody Condon

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:01:17   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

EVP: Amie

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:04:33   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Possession: Russell

Screen capture of nudging high poly meshes in 3D software while listening to recordings of possessed children.

Duration: 00:03:52   
Video: 1920x1080   
Sound: [Occult Voices 1905-2007](https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html)

Possession: Janet

John Provencher

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the .saver appears to orbit around the edges of the screen
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orbit

> 'this book is like totally amazing.'<br />– theresia enzensberger, author of blueprint

Donna Quesada, known to her fans as Donna Dulce, is on a quest to produce the greatest content the web has ever seen. Her vlog, Donna Dulce’s Delicious Dinners, has elevated her from unknown avocado-poster to tier-1 influencer with dizzying speed. Join Donna and her sidekick, the faithful Pansy Szabo, as they livestream their rise to the top. Whether they’re doing a ride-along at the camel races in Dubai, facing off against Special Branch during protests at threatened Scottish wind farms, or tracking down their own lost inspirations in the mountains of Spain, they never take a day off - except when it’s time for self-care. Sometimes, the story doesn’t always turn out as Donna expects it to, but that’s just part of the fun. After all, every post is a journey. Every day is a new adventure.

cover design by @harm-van-den-dorpel


new adventures

Lisa Radon

Synth is a reader for now. a staking out of possibilities for an expanded imaginary and practice drawing from revolutionary poets, feminists, anarchists, witches, theorists, and polemicists from the 70s to the present engaging political, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist action, cyberfeminism, technofeminism, xenofeminism, information wanting to be free, dreamz of a free web, the virtual, hyperstitions, and fiction as method.



Synth

Laura Brown

A grid of clocks advance at slightly different rates, ranging from slightly less than one tick per second to slightly more. only one clock advances at one tick per second and shows the current time. Like a watch with a low battery, eventually the effect of the clocks’ varying rates are compounded, yielding increasingly deviating display times.


running fast and slow

Eric Li & Zak Jensen

there are two familiar forms, each composed of a single circle encompassing several radiating lines. one is dynamic, utilitarian and focussed squarely on the "now"—a clock face. the other is static, symbolic and seems to suggest an unidentified "then"—the peace symbol.

combining the forms compromises, slightly, the function of the first and complicates, productively, the meaning of the second. the clock face remains recognizable, if slightly harder to read. the peace symbol, subject to the mechanics of time-keeping, is never quite perfect, always coming or going.

this iteration of the peace clock, originally conceived in 2009 by zak jensen, is a screensaver programmed by eric li in 2019.

peace clock

Jasmijn Visser

12 years left; 2 degrees; half earth. The future is rendering.

Little brother is an infinite countdown clock. 

special thanks to Trang ha and Kunsthalle amsterdam.



Little Brother

Dorine van Meel

"oh yes, i will practice my canon proudly, a golden image of stark blue skies, of dams and dykes and waterworks, masters and guilds, and how they transformed into dedicated directors, offshore engineers, shiny-looking cars on lease claim our streets with logos of well-designed brands stuck to their windows – one empty baby seat in the back."

the video "beyond the nation state i want to dream" deals with the construct of nation states and national identity in europe, examining the binaries and mechanisms of exclusion at work in the constitution of a ‘we’. consisting entirely of slowly decomposing and recomposing computer-generated images, the video juxtaposes apparently innocuous representations of national identity with sites on which the intersection of nationhood, colonialism and imperial conquest have been made manifest. these sites range from fort elmina, the first european settlement in west africa, to the room in which the 1884 berlin conference took place. such imagery is accompanied by a dream-like monologue in which a narrator attempts in vain to escape from a present in which the historical violence of the nation state is perpetuate in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

music and sounds for the video are produced and performed by jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg, with a voice-over by therese ladegaard henningsen.

beyond the nation state i want to dream

a split-screen self-playing game surrounding two sets of characters. the characters, a group of humanoids and a flutter of butterflies, exist across two parallel realities in which their roles in a "cat and mouse" type of pursuit are reversed. they perform a generative, screen-specific, choreography in ten minute cycles, moving in tandem with their parallel world counterparts. the virtual camera orbiting the scene is also drawn into the performance, mimicking an omni-present surveillance device whose flight patterns and impulsive zooms are mirrored across the worlds. the path and outcome of each cycle is generally unique.



twodom

Gene McHugh

 The year is 2250.

The colony on the Moon is divided into debaucherous fascists and an underclass of mutants born without genitals.

Follow Frank and Gerry, two mutant bros. By day, they’re forced to salvage through the remains of a porn-filled shuttle that crashed on the Moon's dark side. By night, they plot their revenge.

Gene McHugh is a writer based in Los Angeles
He is the author of Post Internet (2011)

First edition of 500 is co-published by The Composing Rooms and Version House, Cover design by Harm van den Dorpel and Laurel Schwulst

bang bros

We are proud to present [a series of 5 videos](/brody-condon) by artist [Brody Condon](/brody-condon), recorded in 2014. 

The Berlin based artist (b. Mexico 1974) often facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena. His work is best known for its early influence on re-purposing computer games and LARP techniques ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brody_Condon)).

Condon's work has been widely exhibited internationally, and been acquired by public collections such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Gallery, and the Kadist Foundation.

The 5 video works are each available in an edition of [3 non-fungible Ethereum tokens](https://left.gallery/work/evp-amie). These tokens are progressively priced: respectively 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 ether, and sold on a [first-come, first-served basis](https://left.gallery/work/possession-janet) (no auction).

We like to thank our friends at [Folia](https://www.folia.app/) and Alberto Granzotto for their support.

Possessed High-Poly NFTs

Read our co-founder Harm van den Dorpel's text [Tokenizing Sustainability](https://harm.work/news/tokenizing-sustainability) about his position on NFTs and the direction left gallery is taking.

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