3 mar 2015 año - Silicon Flats (A1028163271339900500)

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This numeric token was the second tokenized art experiment by Kevin McCoy using the Counterparty protocol. It represented an art piece by Jennifer and Kevin titled 'Silicon Flats', included a vimeo link to the digital video art, a sha256 hash, the text 'monegraph 0.2' and a statement in the JSON that expressed this token was the asserted ownership of the media described by the file and hash.

While the MONEGRAPH token was issued on Counterparty before Regular Division (MGAAAAAAAAAAA) and Silicon Flats (A1028163271339900500), the MONEGRAPH token itself was intended to be used for 'a way to access artworks on the monegraph website -- maybe something like a points system.' Kevin went on to mention 'Obviously it didn't get past the initial issuance! But its a very early artist coin in any case.'

While the MONEGRAPH token itself did not get off the ground as intended, the earlier MGAAAAAAAAAAA and later A1028163271339900500 token very much lasted and persisted for over a decade since their issuance.

Kevin express this 2015 token for Silicon Flats was 'part of a curatorial project my wife and I did as part of the Spring Break Art Fair in NYC. We organized a dozen or so digital and media artists as part of a larger art fair. We announced that we would be putting all of the works on the blockchain with Monegraph ownership registrations. It was so hectic getting everything organized and installed that I only managed to make a token for our piece in the show -- an 8-minute collage video called 'Silicon Flats'. We made the artwork the previous summer at an art residency in the Bay Area. We drove around and filmed the campuses of a bunch of different big tech companies (Apple, eBay, Facebook, Oracle, Google) and remixed that footage with landscape images to create a before and after contrast.'

One of the main publications to mention the art show that Silicon Flats was shown at is from Eyes Towards the Dove in an article written by Katy Diamond Hamer titled 'Where did you go for SPRING/BREAK, 2015?'. Another great presentation going over the theory and early days of Monegraph can be seen in the Seven on Seven 2014 presentation linked below. Kevin mentions about that presentation that 'although Quantum didn't ultimately make an appearance in this presentation, [Quantum] was made during this hackathon. The video does show the two other original works, including the first ever sale.'

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