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Egy "átkozott képekből" (cursed images) álló képgyűjtemény egy üres képernyőn lebeg, négy sarok között. Véletlenszerűen változtatja a pozícióját és a sebességét. A négy sarokban négy rövidítés olvasható, melyek közösségi platformokon és fórumokon népszerűek. Ezek egy-egy hangforrást rejtenek. A képek és a szövegek távolsága határozza meg hangforrások hangerejét, egy folyamatosan változó kompozíciót létrehozva, hezitálást a megfelelő kifejezések között.

This flag aims to represent a yet-fictive workers' union of cryptocurrency miners, a new working class at the bottom of the pyramid of the crypto world. Mining is the power-hungry process of adding transaction records to blockchain networks (e.g. Bitcoin or Ethereum). In return for their computing power - if their computer succeeds in solving the riddle -, miners are rewarded crypto coins.

On the flag the usual symbolic miner tools (pickaxes, hammers, shovels) got replaced with a computer graphics card (GPU), the power of which is required during the process of crypto mining. The flag's colours originate from a traditional black and green miners' flag, where black represents coal and green represents the ground. However, the original shade of green got replaced with the exact shade that the famous GPU-producer company NVIDIA's logo contains, as well as the text, that is from the same company's GeForce series of graphics cards. "Glück auf!" is a famous traditional German miners' greeting that describes the hope of the miners to end their shift with a reward and return home safely.

What interests me most about NFT-s is their yet undiscovered psychological aspects, their effect on their owners and other viewers. It’s a new opportunity to rethink our approaches towards digital author- and ownership. And it isn’t only limited to the art field, you can already see conceptual NFT-s appearing from various fields (e.g. memes, family heritage, porn). With the possibility to secure your content on the blockchain, sex workers for example will be able to sell the „ownership” of their images, which raises interesting ethical and political questions.

My project is to constitute a fake, imagined scenario (that could easily happen in the near future though), to create an anonymous user who confesses his story online. He would describe his problem in a post: his problem is that he started developing feelings for an x-rated NFT he bought from an OnlyFans model who just started selling NFT-s, and it interferes with his normal life. It offers an opportunity to relate to and think about this topic through an experimental fictive art-environment, I would call it radical fiction.

Ez a neurális hálózat (generative adversarial network) több száz, interneten talált busó portré alapján, gépi tanulás útján képes új, nemlétező busóarcok generálására.