.Asterisms

An asterism is a collection of stars that, when one connects them mentally, they generate a pattern. Unlike constellations, they are a more general concept that can refer to any identified pattern of stars. The viewer is the one who draws in the sky and gives meaning to their creation.

'Asterisms' in an interactive generative project that invites you to draw, name and save forever your own asterism. Through a generative algorithm, the script gives you the sky as a canvas where you can unfold your imagination as many times as you want based on the Token ID hash from the minting process.

To be a user is to be a creator.

The project was launched on April 20, 2021 on the ArtBlocks platform, being one of the earliest projects to take advantage of blockchain technology and web programming to generate interactive experiences in real time.

My interest in this project lies precisely in exploring these new possibilities that Blockchain technology and the ArtBlocks platform enabled. At that time, the crypto ecosystem was debating whether the work was the image or the information that the token had. Within that context, it seemed interesting to me to generate a simple work (technically speaking) but that could allow me to talk about this and the problem of using rigid or inflexible categories.

As their name indicates, asterisms are groups of stars grouped together by the viewer and only make sense within their context.

The project had a great reception by collectors who, after discovering how the interactivity worked, highlighted the poetics generated by the algorithm. Today the project consists of 100 iterations stored immutably on the Ethereum blockchain.