Block 7 (43.804626° N, 11.292813° E) #6/30

Block 7 (43.804626° N, 11.292813° E) by Robert Alice Location: Villa Medici, Fiesole, Italy 1397. Leon Battista Alberti and the Medici. The leading Renaissance cryptographer, and the architect of the Medici patrons. It is here that art collecting and cryptography meet for the first time. --- The first layer of the NFT displays the opening and closing digits of code in each segment of BTC v0.1.0. Drawing on the aesthetics of cuneiform tablets and the history of the written record, the digital digits are carved out of Houdini and based on top a fine blue mesh. The second layer corresponds to the location of each Block in the series, drawing connections between these particula...View all