Released with Vivid Gallery and exhibited at Galerie Met, Berlin, in September 2024.
Eternal Tides
Eternal Tides explores the connection between digital processes and the natural world through a continuously changing generative seascape. Created by Ronen Tanchum and Ori Ben Shabat, the project was released with Vivid Gallery and exhibited at Galerie Met in Berlin.
The work is driven by live Bitcoin blockchain activity. Each newly mined block generates a fresh data painting: block size affects the number of waves and primary colors, while network activity shapes the roughness of the sea and the smear of the wind shader.
Structured as a calendar, Eternal Tides reveals a new artwork each day and turns the blockchain into an oceanic metaphor: vast, interconnected, volatile, and in constant motion. It is both a technical system and a meditation on cycles of time, emotion, infrastructure, and exchange.
Release
Color Study
The palette system was developed through a sustained study of ocean light, atmospheric color, and chromatic harmony. Each palette is tuned to carry a distinct emotional register while remaining coherent across the full body of outputs.
Palette families include Oceanic, Moonlight, Early, Dawn, Sunsets, and Corals.
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Short Description
Eternal Tides - a generative seascape by Ronen Tanchum and Ori Ben Shabat, released with Vivid Gallery and exhibited at Galerie Met Berlin, where live Bitcoin data becomes waves, wind, and color.
Long Description
Eternal Tides explores the connection between digital processes and the natural world through a continuously changing generative seascape. Created by Ronen Tanchum and Ori Ben Shabat, the project was released with Vivid Gallery and exhibited at Galerie Met in Berlin.
The work is driven by live Bitcoin blockchain activity. Each newly mined block generates a fresh data painting: block size affects the number of waves and primary colors, while network activity shapes the roughness of the sea and the smear of the wind shader.
Structured as a calendar, Eternal Tides reveals a new artwork each day and turns the blockchain into an oceanic metaphor: vast, interconnected, volatile, and in constant motion. It is both a technical system and a meditation on cycles of time, emotion, infrastructure, and exchange.
The work is driven by live Bitcoin blockchain activity. Each newly mined block generates a fresh data painting: block size affects the number of waves and primary colors, while network activity shapes the roughness of the sea and the smear of the wind shader.
Structured as a calendar, Eternal Tides reveals a new artwork each day and turns the blockchain into an oceanic metaphor: vast, interconnected, volatile, and in constant motion. It is both a technical system and a meditation on cycles of time, emotion, infrastructure, and exchange.
Artists
Ronen Tanchum & Ori Ben Shabat
Studio
Phenomena Labs
Technology
GLSL Shaders, GPU Acceleration, Live Bitcoin Data
Released with
Vivid Gallery
Exhibited at
Galerie Met, Berlin