# crystalline work (arctic) 6.3.324.1

Artwork by john gerrard on Feral File.

- Artist: [john gerrard](https://feralfile.com/artists/john-gerrard-din)
- Series: [crystalline work (arctic)](https://feralfile.com/series/crystalline-work-sdk)
- Exhibition: [crystalline work](https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/crystalline-work-5ze)
- Edition: one of 9048 unique works (index 8045)
- Medium: Software
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Contract: 0xBE0A4E26a156B2a60cF515E86b3Df9756DEE1952
- Token ID: 31946296525744824328753280828797417080692251952513183340713878305007073190317
- Minted: 18 June 2024
- Preview: https://cdn.artworks.feralfile.io/previews/4e7c1eba-7c17-4c38-9454-36c72ae98249/1717761156/nft.html?hourIdx=8213
- Thumbnail: https://cdn.artworks.feralfile.io/previews/4e7c1eba-7c17-4c38-9454-36c72ae98249/1717761156/generated_images/crystal_8213_img.jpg?variant=small

## Description

john gerrard has built a practice developing simulation as a language and material, using this mode to examine issues related to energy, consumption, and environmental exploitation. *crystalline work (arctic)* features a prismatic virtual robot performing upon a barren platform at the Arctic North Pole. Seen from above, the robot enacts an ice-generation algorithm to create crystal bar lattices that create a unique, dynamic, tokenised 3D Web Graphic Library (WebGL) art piece documenting that solar moment. The lattices in *crystalline work* form “archetypes” — masks, solar crosses, mandalas, stars, trees, and mycelium, amongst others — which generatively emerge from the algorithm’s logic.

Embedded in each work is a 4,000-pixel image file of the generated archetype, which can be dynamically exported and locally pigment printed on paper at 1m x 1m to the artist's specifications. Also embedded in each work is a 3D model of the unique crystal array, which can be exported for usage in 3D prints or virtual world-building.

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