作品/脉络二 · NFT

一千眼

1000EYE

2019

乌拉姆质数螺旋上的 1000 只眼睛，对非同质化代币进行的同质化实验，两小时内被拍卖一空，销售额超过300万美元。

一千眼

基本信息

  • 艺术家：CryptoZR
  • 创作年份：2019
  • 创作平台：以太坊
  • 创作材料：油画·NFT
  • 合约地址：0xec6c17475a732e3800d744ce3aa514a4ca40f100
  • 版本数：1000/1000
  • 资产属性：ERC721
  • 作品类型：启蒙与代币化

作品介绍

《一千眼》这件作品创作于2019年，画面以比特币之父中本聪的"眼睛"为中心。

以乌拉姆螺旋（质数的螺旋）的排布方式

我选取了1000位人物的眼睛置入质数点上，并对应发行了总计1000个NFT（非同质化代币）

这件作品将"非同质化"人物进行"同质化"处理

《一千眼》作品内的人物被"匿名"，除了中本聪

在发布方式上，采用发售完毕后首个纳斯达克交易日的收盘指数作为随机数种子，将1000个NFT对应的图像编号打乱。

在编号乱序后，艺术家本人也无法提供关于图片顺序任何有效信息以保证分发的公平性。

在作品发售结束之后第一个交易日，才会计算出每个tokenID对应人物的眼睛。

发售自2021年9月26日13点（UTC）开始，在两个小时内完成了所有NFT的发售，作品总销售额为1000枚以太币。

创作背景

2019年，CryptoZR着手创作《1000EYE》。此时正值NFT技术仍处于早期阶段（智能合约于2019年8月26日部署），全球NFT市场尚未形成。艺术家将整幅油画手工完成，耗时逾一年，以"加密艺术的工作量证明"回应区块链核心精神。

作品的灵感来自数学家斯坦尼斯瓦夫·乌拉姆（Stanislaw Ulam）发现的质数螺旋——在二维平面上，质数沿对角线形成规律图案。艺术家将这一数学秩序与人类身份的"非同质化"特质结合，以中本聪（Satoshi Nakamoto）这一匿名存在为中心，探讨身份、权威与共识。

2021年9月，《1000EYE》全部1000枚NFT在两小时内以1 ETH/枚的价格售罄，总销售额达1000 ETH（约合2600万人民币），成为当时中国价格最高的NFT作品，入选AMEX Essential"2021年夏季全球最佳展览"。

创作理念

《1000EYE》的核心是对"同质化"与"非同质化"的辩证探讨：

  1. NFT的同质化实验：NFT（非同质化代币）本应每枚独一无二，而《1000EYE》通过隐藏元数据属性，将1000枚NFT处理成表面无差异的存在，令其具备货币（同质化代币）的流通特征，挑战了NFT稀缺性判断机制。

  2. 匿名化与身份政治：1000位人物中唯中本聪被公开标注，其余皆为匿名。这一设计隐喻了加密社区的核心价值——去中心化与匿名性。

  3. 工作量证明的艺术转化：每幅眼睛图像皆手工油画完成，以身体劳动呼应比特币挖矿的"工作量证明"（Proof of Work），在数字艺术泛滥的时代重新锚定创作者的"在场"价值。

创作形式

作品由整幅手绘油画和1000个ERC721 NFT共同构成，两者通过元数据对应关系相互映射。

核心技术与创作形式：

  • 手工油画：整幅作品由艺术家手工绘制，以素数螺旋（乌拉姆螺旋）为结构框架，包含1000位人物的眼睛图像，耗时逾一年完成
  • NFT发行机制：1000枚ERC721 NFT在2021年9月26日13:00 UTC公开发售，两小时内售罄
  • 随机分配：使用发售结束后第一个纳斯达克（Nasdaq）交易日的收盘指数作为随机数种子，对1000个NFT的图像编号进行乱序分配，确保公平性
  • 匿名化处理：隐藏元数据中的属性信息，最小化人物之间的可识别差异
  • 价格：每枚1 ETH，总销售额1000 ETH

作品评论

「1000EYE」将NFT进行同质化的实验

DecryptoArt — Medium/DecryptoArt，2021

  • 评论标题：1000EYE — Fungible the NFTs
  • 评论摘要：文章指出《1000EYE》作为NFT历史早期的重要创作，将整幅油画分割为1000个独立NFT，每枚可独立存在也可重新组合映射回原画。艺术家通过隐藏元数据属性最小化人物差异，使NFT呈现货币特征而非收藏品特征，挑战传统稀缺性判断机制，强调美学体验高于数据属性。
  • 来源链接：https://decryptoart.medium.com/1000eye-fungible-the-nfts-de7f27f9443c

参展信息

1. CRYPTO ZR: ARRIVAL — 伦敦萨奇美术馆

  • 展出时间：2023年5月26日-28日
  • 展出地点：伦敦，萨奇美术馆，3号画廊
  • 主办方：CryptoZR & Li Zhenhua
  • 策展人：李振华
  • 展览详情：CryptoZR-Arrival.md

2. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE 2.0 — 威尼斯双年展

  • 展出时间：2022年4月21日-11月23日
  • 展出地点：意大利威尼斯，军械库 Lamierini 2号馆
  • 主办方：第一届威尼斯元宇宙双年展
  • 策展人：李振华
  • 展览详情：CookieCookie2-Venice.md

3. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — 北京个展

  • 展出时间：2021年5月-6月
  • 展出地点：北京，嘉德艺术中心
  • 主办方：嘉德艺术中心
  • 策展人：李振华
  • 展览详情：CookieCookie-Beijing.md

4. 不准停电

  • 展出时间：2021年8月-10月
  • 展出地点：上海，明当代美术馆
  • 主办方：明当代美术馆
  • 展览详情：McaM-DoNotBlackOut.md

5. 脱域: 从数字原生到元宇宙

  • 展出时间：2021年8月-11月
  • 展出地点：温州，昊美术馆
  • 主办方：昊美术馆
  • 展览详情：HOW-Dislocation.md

媒体报道

作品介绍

作品介绍视频

Basic Information

  • Artist: CryptoZR
  • Year: 2019
  • Platform: Ethereum
  • Materials: Oil Painting · NFT
  • Contract / Address: 0xec6c17475a732e3800d744ce3aa514a4ca40f100
  • Edition: 1000/1000
  • Asset Type: ERC-721
  • Category: Enlightenment & Tokenization

Introduction

1000EYE was created in 2019; at the centre of the picture is the "eye" of Satoshi Nakamoto, the father of Bitcoin.

Following the arrangement of the Ulam spiral (the spiral of prime numbers),

I selected the eyes of 1,000 figures and placed them on the prime-number points, issuing a corresponding total of 1,000 NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

The work subjects "non-fungible" persons to a process of "fungibilisation".

The figures within 1000EYE are rendered "anonymous" — all except Satoshi Nakamoto.

For the release, the closing index of the first Nasdaq trading day after the sale concluded was used as a random seed to shuffle the image numbers assigned to the 1,000 NFTs.

Once the numbering had been shuffled, not even the artist could supply any usable information about the order of the images, which guaranteed the fairness of the distribution.

Only on the first trading day after the sale ended was the eye corresponding to each token ID computed.

The sale opened at 13:00 UTC on 26 September 2021 and every NFT was sold within two hours, for total sales of 1,000 ETH.

Background

In 2019 CryptoZR set about creating 1000EYE. NFT technology was still at an early stage (the smart contract was deployed on 26 August 2019) and no global NFT market yet existed. The artist completed the entire oil painting by hand over more than a year, answering the core spirit of the blockchain with a "proof of work of crypto art".

The work takes its inspiration from the prime spiral discovered by the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam — on a two-dimensional plane, prime numbers form regular patterns along the diagonals. The artist combined this mathematical order with the "non-fungible" quality of human identity, placing Satoshi Nakamoto, that anonymous presence, at the centre in order to examine identity, authority and consensus.

In September 2021 all 1,000 NFTs of 1000EYE sold out within two hours at 1 ETH each, for total sales of 1,000 ETH (about 26 million RMB), making it the highest-priced NFT work in China at the time and earning it a place in AMEX Essential's "Best Global Exhibitions of Summer 2021".

Concept

At the heart of 1000EYE lies a dialectical inquiry into the "fungible" and the "non-fungible":

  1. An experiment in making NFTs fungible: every NFT (non-fungible token) is supposed to be unique, yet by hiding the metadata attributes 1000EYE renders its 1,000 NFTs outwardly indistinguishable, giving them the circulating character of a currency (a fungible token) and challenging the mechanism by which NFT scarcity is judged.

  2. Anonymisation and identity politics: of the 1,000 figures only Satoshi Nakamoto is openly identified; all the rest are anonymous. This design is a metaphor for the core values of the crypto community — decentralisation and anonymity.

  3. Proof of work translated into art: every image of an eye was painted by hand in oils, answering Bitcoin's "proof of work" with bodily labour and re-anchoring the value of the creator's "presence" in an age awash with digital art.

Form

The work consists of a single hand-painted oil painting together with 1,000 ERC-721 NFTs, the two mapped onto one another through metadata correspondences.

Core technique and form:
Hand-painted oils: the entire work was painted by hand by the artist, structured on the prime (Ulam) spiral and containing images of the eyes of 1,000 figures; it took over a year to complete
NFT issuance: 1,000 ERC-721 NFTs went on public sale at 13:00 UTC on 26 September 2021 and sold out within two hours
Random allocation: the closing index of the first Nasdaq trading day after the sale ended was used as a random seed to shuffle the image numbers assigned to the 1,000 NFTs, ensuring fairness
Anonymisation: attribute information in the metadata was hidden, minimising any identifiable difference between the figures
Price: 1 ETH each, for total sales of 1,000 ETH

Reviews

DecryptoArt

Review title: 1000EYE — Fungible the NFTs

Summary: The article identifies 1000EYE as a significant work from the early history of NFTs, dividing a single oil painting into 1,000 independent NFTs, each of which can exist on its own or be recombined to map back onto the original painting. By hiding the metadata attributes the artist minimises the differences between the figures, so that the NFTs take on the character of a currency rather than of collectibles, challenging conventional mechanisms for judging scarcity and asserting the primacy of aesthetic experience over data attributes.

Source: https://decryptoart.medium.com/1000eye-fungible-the-nfts-de7f27f9443c

Decrypt Art

Review title: 1000EYE: An Experiment in Making NFTs Fungible
Reviewer: Decrypt Art (Crypto Art)
Date: 23 September 2021
Summary: Discusses the anonymisation of the figures, the fungibilisation of NFTs, the Ulam spiral and the proof of work of hand painting, and explains the work's character as a social token.
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wruUPO1FlxewFlzaOptSJw

Exhibitions

1. CRYPTO ZR: ARRIVAL — Saatchi Gallery, London

  • Dates: 26–28 May 2023
  • Location: Gallery 3, Saatchi Gallery, London

2. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE 2.0 — Venice Biennale

  • Dates: 21 April – 23 November 2022
  • Location: Lamierini Hall 2, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

3. Do Not Black Out

  • Dates: August–October 2021
  • Location: McaM (Ming Contemporary Art Museum), Shanghai

4. Dislocation: From Digital Native to the Metaverse

  • Dates: August–November 2021
  • Location: HOW Art Museum, Wenzhou

5. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — Solo Exhibition, Beijing

  • Dates: May–June 2021
  • Location: Guardian Art Center, Beijing

Media Coverage

Introduction to the Works

Image

https://storage.dfi.today/image/1000EYE.jpeg

Video

https://storage.dfi.today/zrdao/1000eye.m4v