About crashblossom

James Bloom (crashblossom) is a London-based cryptoartist whose work combines post-conceptual digital abstraction with original innovations in dynamic blockchain code. He creates ruptured digital images that explore themes around the fetishisation of technology, the splintering of self in digital worlds and the influence of network systems on humans.


About BURNER

BURNER is a dynamic cryptoart series that changes every block in response to live Ethereum gas price data. A total of 256 interconnected artworks dependent on the state of the blockchain. As Ethereum network usage increases due to increased transactions, a more forceful artwork develops.

Gas price data is made from the competing desires, intentions and beliefs of millions of entities. Transactions on Ethereum create overwhelming amounts of information in block time, cyclically revealing unforeseen states. BURNER pictures this continuous decentralized process.

BURNER website: https://burner.is/

crashblossom website: https://crashblossom.co/

BURNER explores the idea of constant impermanence and the ongoing disappearance of the current moment due to a constant flow of new information within media and financial networks. The artwork is never finished, there's always a new variant.

BURNER #51 is a High Speed piece including a rare Dark Layer, which with its variations, makes the number of possible compositions of the artwork over time almost 300 million. Below are some examples of some outputs in the medium-high gas environment. Images captured on 3/21/2023.