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DEAFBEEF

Featured in 2 editorials and mentioned in 3 more. Mentioned in 3 podcast episodes. Mentioned in 4 Timeline moments (2021 to 2024). Appears alongside 167 other people.

DEAFBEEF is a Canadian artist who pushes the boundaries of on-chain generative art using nothing but the “bare-bones” C programming language.

DEAFBEEF
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Biography and works in the Le Random Collection →
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Having a background in electrical engineering and signal processing and music technology, I thought, “Why not start from scratch and see what can be done with ‘nothing’, just writing low level audio synthesis code on a cheap laptop without using any external libraries or expensive hardware?"

DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence

Blockchain is a decentralized ledger and we have this idea, perhaps dogmatic, that it's permanent and immutable, transferring information through time. We've seen that with many other mark-making events throughout human history such as markings on clay tablets that were the first writing systems.

DEAFBEEF, DEAFBEEF on (Im)permanence

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