Omphaloskepsis 7 (The First Rari Peak) is an audiovisual digital art object by Massimo Magee, designed to be read by the computer as both a visual still image and as a piece of audio, these being two readings of the same file. It was shaped across visual and audio dimensions functionally simultaneously, meaning that a change in the visual also affected the audio, and a change in the audio also affected the visual.
The piece was made with processed image data from 6 screenshots of the Rari/USD currency chart on the 6 consecutive days leading up to the day this piece was tokenised, with each of those 6 screenshots also having been tokenised as NFTs called Omphaloskepsis 1-6, each 24hr currenc...