This is the Certificate of Authenticity for the physical sculpture "Alchemist (Machine #11)" from the Inheritance series. The validity of the artwork depends on its certificate and sculpture being held by the same owner. If one is transferred, it is expected that the other follows. The Inheritance series explores the influence of nature and nurture through the passing of knowledge from one generation of computers to the next. These machines began with the same set of knowledge inherited from an ancestral computer, but time and differing environmental conditions have diverged their paths, endowing each computer with a unique perspective and final form. As the story goes, I trained my computers to become sculptors. With practice, they developed their own distinctive styles. Inspired by the classics, each created a single sculpture—one of the uncanny, figurative forms presented here. They are also materially made from the computers that invented them. I ground the computers to dust and utilized them as a physical medium, fusing process and product. Reborn, the computers assume a newfound physical agency, while traces of their invisible processing power live on in their bodily form. Endowed is a materiality upon the impossibly immaterial.

Ben Snell

Alchemist (Machine #11)

From

Ben Snell

Artist
Ben Snell
Blockchain
Ethereum
Token standard
ERC-721
Contract address
0xdc...9c9b
Token
5
Date
2020
Dimensions
31.8 x 18.7 x 13.6 cm
Material
computer parts and binder
Medium
sculpture
Series
Inheritance
Type
unique
Activity
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