Chrome plays with the potential of contemporary software and hardware, from generative realtime graphics and custom smart contracts, to displays with ever increasing resolution and quality. The onchain software work responds to screen size and builds directly on the pixels of the specific display it runs on. Chrome is a 128 channel realtime animation, coordinated by universal time (UTC). It emerges from a continuous linear motion, interrupted by a choreography between rhythm and random. Every channel is offset one additional second into the future, based on the token id assigned by the custom smart contract. This relation becomes visible when multiple channels are running in a shared space. Compositions emerge and evolve at various regular intervals, without ever repeating. Once per hour the synchronization stops and all channels act individually, before they transition back to coordination.
On March 1, 6PM CET, the 128 channels of Chrome can be minted, in sets of 8 channels (consecutive token ids), in pairs of 2, or as single channel. A 24h pre-sale starts 28 Feb 6PM CET, for collectors on the allowlist.
A "set" is 8 tokens with consecutive ids and time offsets. A pair is 2 tokens with consecutive ids and time offsets. Collectors of multiple channels can display them together and see the time difference, the synchronization and the choreography that emerges between them.
The custom smart contract stores the 15kb code of the work on the Ethereum blockchain. It also enables minting sets with consecutive token ids in a single transaction.
Chrome has been created in collaboration with Leander Herzog.