Artist: Joe Hamilton, b. 1982
Title: Regular Division
Year created: 2014
Date minted: 9 October 2014
Format: A non-fungible token stored on the Bitcoin blockchain via the CounterParty XCP protocol.
Regular Division was one of the earliest artworks to be minted as a non-fungible token (NFT) in October 2014. The token was minted with the assistance of Kevin McCoy who also minted the first ever NFT for his own artwork Quantum, 4 months earlier. Many of the early NFTs were on the namecoin blockchain which are no longer directly transferable. Regular Division however was one of the early works minted on Bitcoin via the CounterParty protocol. This makes it unique as one of the earliest NFTs that remains directly transferable in its native format.
“Joe Hamilton’s Regular Division takes enclosed environments as its subject. The video uses intricate, dynamic editing and layering to combine footage of several indoor gardens spread across the world. These glasshouses aim to recreate pristine environments in terms of foliage, atmosphere and temperatures. Hamilton’s video, however, lingers on the points where natural elements meet the physical structures that support the enclosed environments, such as walls, paths and glass ceilings. Across the surface of the video, as though suspended in virtual space, are brushstrokes that allude to the painterly landscapes of Vincent Van Gogh and Arthur Streeton, drawing a connection between the different ways in which landscapes have been manufactured as image and environment.” ― Simone Hine and Kyle Weise.
“A continual slow camera pan runs evenly across architectural greenhouses, lush vegetation, water features, elaborate stonework and ornate steelwork. As it passes languorously over and between disparate times and places the ambient sounds are penetrated by echoes of recognisable noises - a waterfall, voices, a snapped branch. The different locations likewise exist alongside each other and within each other’s pictorial space – a window frame reflects or offers sight of an alternate landscape, a walkway from England traverses vegetation from elsewhere. Further defining and confusing the sense of space are abstracted brush marks from traditional landscape paintings.” ― Hannah Redler
Joe Hamilton (b. 1982 Tasmania) makes use of technology and found material to create intricate
and complex compositions online, offline and in-between. His recent work questions our
established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly
networked.
Hamilton holds a BFA from the University of Tasmania and an MA from RMIT in Melbourne.
His work has been shown to great extent internationally with group exhibitions at The Moving
Museum Istanbul, The Austrian Film Museum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and The New Museum in New York.
Experimental hard copy Monegraph built on @CounterpartyXCP for the LikeNewLandscape show. http://t.co/fm5hT7Rep9 pic.twitter.com/y4HEEcaCPt
— Monegraph (@Monegraph) October 10, 2014
Block | 324570 |
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Block Hash | 000000000000000016a60b6ccc5bcba4823f0f71c9de3612f8176e6c037893fc |
Previous Hash | 0000000000000000116468599f28cf9c6cdbab147a257ed94d99e1c3b311f255 |
Ledger Hash | 892d6006d83b9cb9eff24b1f4b0e4d654be15bc3a63cc57eb3fe3320289005b6 |
Txlist Hash | 6aa6964069afd96e3f3da2499445ec41c3eba5da7ae96802700e2e8fda868b6b |
Messages Hash | 9f2179965cf8ef2c65c87787737f3cbddeab4dcde31315f0a445093775652ec6 |
Difficulty | 34661400000 |
Time | 7 years ago (2014-10-09T17:01:35Z GMT) |
XChain Transaction | https://www.xchain.io/asset/MGAAAAAAAAAAA |
Over the past 7 years Regular Division has also been shown in 33 exhibitions and screenings in 13 countries.
LikeNewLandscape, Pablo's Birthday Gallery in New York, United States, 2014.
A View Beyond the Trees, Solo Exhibition at Zuckerman Museum, Georgia, United States, 2016
How to build a universe which doesn’t fall apart two days later Group Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France, Jan 2016
A View Beyond the Trees, Solo Exhibition at Zuckerman Museum, Georgia, United States, 2016
Crossing Atmospheres, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia, June 2016
Right Here, Right Now, The Lowry, Liverpool, United Kingdom, February 2015