Modulator One is the first online generative photography NFT project -- an experiment in collaboratively authoring a past moment and experiencing its mutable nature. 

Each image acts as a different recollection of the same moment under alternate lighting through photographic technology called platelight.
These are generated upon being collected, co-authored by the unique fingerprint of a collector's wallet. The project also includes one interactive video -- a record of this moment of creation, changeable through interaction. 

This work is set in the construction site of a house -- a stage for shifting history and memory, where the past can be shaped into new stories, histories and identity. 

In a sense this project has also become a recollection of this moment for photography and the blockchain with works generated by Alejandro Cartagena, Cristina de Middel, Alec Soth, Roe Ethridge, Justin Aversano, Reuben Wu and others here building and creating.

http://www.vanderoer.com/modulator

Consisting of an interactive video and generative still images, Modulator One is an experiment in collaboratively authoring a past moment. 

Each image acts as a different recollection of the same moment under alternate conditions of lighting through photographic technology called platelight.

The still images are generated upon being collected, co-authored by the unique fingerprint of a collectors wallet.

The interactive video is a record of this moment of creation, yet is changeable through interaction. 

These are the first dynamically generated photographic NFTs and the first interactive lighting video and NFT of its kind.

I’ve found photographic technology to be an amazing tool to play with the way in which we deal with the past. As we create our identities, myths, histories and stories we use the past in a plastic, changeable way. My goal with this project is to present a past moment and experience its mutable nature collaboratively.

http://www.vanderoer.com/modulator


Carlo Van de Roer - Modulator One

This image is automatically generated upon being collected for the first time, using multiple source images of the same photographed moment under different lighting conditions. Your unique wallet address acts like 'DNA' in co-authoring this image with me. Once created, the work resides in permanent storage.  
This process will take a few minutes, after which refreshing metadata will reveal the image.  
I think of these as different recollections of the same moment. My goal with this work is to capture a past moment and experience its mutable, authorable nature collaboratively with you.  
The development of this work can be viewed in the interactive video piece in this same collection.  
Created in camera with the use of new photographic technology enabling a moment to be recorded under multiple lighting conditions concurrently -- in collaboration with Satellite Lab’s PlateLight technology.

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