New NFT by Joan Heemskerk available through Folia

Folia is thrilled to announce cable, a collection of 545 on-chain NFTs by artist Joan Heemskerk (JODI), available for mint on January 25th, 2023 at 19:00 UTC.

The Submarine Cable System consists of 545 fiber-optic cables that deliver 95% of all international internet traffic. Cable operators continue to socket new stations—scribbling on the seafloor.

In the artist's second collection with Folia, each subsea cable is expressed as an .SVG animation, fully hosted and rendered on the Ethereum blockchain.

Some are single paths, others with curled arms. A brutish dashed line pushes data through the cable's paths.

Though the animations are programmed as one-directional, our graphics cards stumble along the way, with vibrating effect.

(Joan likes to thorn our fancy machines.)

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Publication date: 24 Jan '23