硅基时间
Silicon Time
2026
九路城市实时影像按比特币出块间隔变速播放，人类活动在一个非人类计时单位下的场景模拟。
基本信息
- 艺术家：CryptoZR
- 创作年份：2026
- 创作平台：比特币主网
- 创作材料：全球公共空间实时摄像数据·比特币区块数据
- 版本数：1/1
- 资产属性：数字影像
- 作品类型：跨界融合
作品介绍
作品将纽约时代广场、东京涩谷十字路口、都柏林 Temple Bar、悉尼海港大桥、伦敦艾比路、首尔西江大桥、罗马斗兽场、曼谷素坤逸路和巴黎圣心大教堂的九路画面，以 3×3 网格并置。
每个比特币区块被映射为恒定的 6 秒输出。区块实际生成越快，画面播放越慢；出块间隔越长，画面越快。每帧左下角刻录对应区块高度和完整哈希值，使密码学时间戳与现实影像同时出现。
作品及技术细节见：《硅基时间》评论全文。
创作背景
《硅基时间》通过九路全球公共空间实时摄像画面与比特币区块出块间隔的映射，让人类城市影像服从一个非人类计算系统的时间尺度。
创作理念
作品将观察主体从人类置换为持续运行的比特币网络，追问：当非人类系统拥有自己的计时单位，人类活动在其坐标中会呈现何种形态？
创作形式
九路影像同步录制后，以比特币相邻区块的时间戳计算速度因子，并进行帧级变速、网格合成和哈希水印刻录。作品不对极端出块间隔进行平滑处理，使随机性的时间颗粒直接进入画面。
作品评论
硅基时间
- 评论人：Decrypt Art
- 评论时间：2026-05-10
- 发表媒体：加密艺术
- 评论原文链接：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/N6uYuIvxNOm6Ba5MNI6Njg
- 评论摘要：解析九路公共摄像画面与比特币出块间隔的映射方法，并从非人类时间、数据驱动影像和主体置换角度评价作品。
- 阅读全文：SiliconTime.md
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参展信息
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作品介绍视频
Basic Information
- Artist: CryptoZR
- Year: 2026
- Platform: Bitcoin Mainnet
- Materials: Real-time Public Webcam Data Worldwide · Bitcoin Block Data
- Edition: 1/1
- Asset Type: Digital Video
- Category: Cross-disciplinary Fusion
Introduction
The work juxtaposes in a 3×3 grid nine live feeds: Times Square in New York, the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, Temple Bar in Dublin, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Abbey Road in London, the Seogang Bridge in Seoul, the Colosseum in Rome, Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok and the Sacré-Cœur in Paris.
Each Bitcoin block is mapped to a constant six seconds of output. The faster a block is actually produced, the slower the footage plays; the longer the interval between blocks, the faster it runs. The corresponding block height and full hash are inscribed in the lower left of every frame, so that the cryptographic timestamp and the real-world image appear together.
Background
Silicon Time maps nine live public webcam feeds from around the world onto the intervals between Bitcoin blocks, making images of the human city obey the time scale of a non-human computational system.
Concept
The work replaces the human observer with the continuously running Bitcoin network and asks: when a non-human system possesses its own unit of time, what form does human activity take within its coordinates?
Form
The nine feeds are recorded synchronously, after which a speed factor is computed from the timestamps of adjacent Bitcoin blocks and applied as frame-level variable-speed processing, grid compositing and hash watermarking. The work applies no smoothing to extreme block intervals, letting the random granularity of time enter the image directly.
Reviews
Decrypt Art
Review title: Silicon Time
Reviewer: Decrypt Art (Crypto Art)
Date: 10 May 2026
Summary: Analyses the method of mapping nine public webcam feeds onto Bitcoin block intervals, and assesses the work from the perspectives of non-human time, data-driven moving image and the displacement of the subject.
Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/N6uYuIvxNOm6Ba5MNI6Njg
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