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.
The piece is fully responsive, and uses WebGL to turn each pixel on your screen into its own feedback system. Each pixel has a high probability of sampling its previous state, and a low probability of sampling the underlying video.
This system turns your screen into a primitive water simulation, which is then disturbed by the videos of water taken IRL. Once the piece begins, the video sampling could be removed and the last few seconds of motion would continue to loop across the pixels.
Traits
Each work also includes a live-generated audio aspect, which uses the same frequency values as the Feedback Speed traits to oscillate six channels of pink noise.
Source videos and code are hosted on Arweave, a permanent and decentralized storage blockchain. Information on the filming location, weather and time of day for video can be obtained by calling getVideoInfo(tokenId) on the contract. In the case a video file is lost, the artist authorizes the collector to re-create the video using the parameters in the videoInfo file.
Edition size is 2x the number of source videos in the collection, for a total of 416. These videos were taken in multiple locations in Montreal and New York, the artist making digital art by standing still by a river.