CURATED: CRASHBLOSSOM

James Bloom (crashblossom) is a London-based crypto artist whose work combines post-conceptual digital abstraction with original innovations in dynamic code. Inspired by the dopamine-triggering colours and movement of computer games and market interfaces, he creates ruptured digital images that examine themes around the fetishization of technology, the splintering of self in digital worlds and the influence of network systems on humans.

Bloom’s dynamic crypto art series BURNER explores the idea of constant impermanence and the disappearance of the current moment due to a constant flow of new information within media and financial networks. His PFP series uses neural networks to reveal the unstable nature of identity in an era where online representations can be reproduced and altered instantaneously.

Bloom’s work appears in many major crypto art collections including The Museum of Crypto Art and has been shown internationally with Sotheby’s New York and Paris, NFT Factory Paris, Art Basel and Next World Dubai.


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GOLD FUTURES by James Bloom (Crashblossom) are three distinct digital visions presented in a physical paper format. Each one provides a different flavour of digital spectacle. They contain glimpses of figurative scenes, but with digital iconography mixed in. They are flat yet also 3-dimensional. They are abstracted from reality but have a vivid presence. These hybrid images assert their digitalness.

GOLD FUTURES | JAMES BLOOM (CRASHBLOSSOM)

His artist name says it all: Crashblossom defines the ambiguity of information. His name and art stand for the examination of the jagged human relationship to the technologies that define our lives. James Bloom, aka Crashblossom, creates art based on the moments when technology fails and generates dynamic digital art influenced by its viewers and collectors. In conversation with Anika Meier, Crashblossom discusses his practice and influences, the fetishization of technology, and the power of the blockchain.

London-based James Bloom has been creating art since his teens. He has always viewed art as his passion, never a possible career—until he discovered crypto art. Bloom saw it as a possibility to bring together art and digital innovation while exploring society's contemporary experience. Influenced by the dopamine-triggering colours and movements of computer games and inspired by failures of technology, Bloom creates abstract works, which, through the combination of glitched forms and live data feeds, act as living artworks. Under his alias Crashblossom, the artist questions the technological systems on which his artworks are based.

DYNAMIC ART AND GENERATIVE ABSTRACTION

CRASHBLOSSOM: "BLOCKCHAINS CAN TRANSFORM OUR WORLD"

19 artists explore the idea of further challenging the concreteness of human memory—personal or collective—through creative collaboration with AI. In collaboration with The NFT Gallery in London and New York. 


AI AND MEMORY 

RECOLLECTION | NEW YORK, LONDON

VOICES OF WEB3 is an archive of voices and statements summing up the year 2023 in digital art and culture. It is a document in time on the blockchain bringing together some of the leading voices shaping Web3 and the history of digital art.

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